TIE 2007 Session 3106 - Digital Storytelling and the LOC June 21, 2007
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3106 – Digital Storytelling with Library of Congress Resources – Kathy Ferrel and Erin Hunt
6-21-07
Funded through a grant from LOC. They provide a program called Essential Exploration that has face-to-face and web components. They are looking for rural partnerships. Participating schools get staff development, credit, and tech tools (books, ipods, flash drives, printers, interactive whiteboards.)
Digital Storytelling is telling a good story. Examples were shown about the preservation of history and a personal story about someone’s father. When teaching, remember it is always about the story first. Elements of a digital story include:
• Point of view – usually1st person
• A question
• Emotional content
• Voice (narration) – kids are reluctant to talk
• Soundtrack (consider copyright)
• Economy (less is more)
• Pacing
• Media – Graphics or photos, motion (videos, flash, animation,) text, audio
• Action
• Relationship – linear or nonlinear, customized?, calculations (tally,) manipulations (interaction)
• Context – some stories stand alone, some need stage setting
• Communication – story could be one to one, one to many, or many to many
Steps to creating a digital story:
1. Choose topic
2. Storyboard
3. Gather materials
4. Digitize elements
5. Add voice over – narration
6. Soundtrack
7. Share story – publish
Resources:
University of Houston http://www.coe.uh.edu/digital-storytelling/default.htm
Story Center http://www.storycenter.org and http://www.storycenter.org/memvoice/
Tech Head http://www.tech-head.com and http://www.tech-head.com/dstory.htm
primaryAccess http://www.primaryaccess.org digital storytelling software
A review of available tools along with the degree of difficulty for each tool was presented. Next we worked through searching American Memory. You can search using the top search box. Items are organized around collections, which can present a few challenges. You can also browse by topic. On the right is a list to browse collections by media type. Media is not edited, and should be previewed or media links collected ahead of time. Citations can also provide challenges because the copyrights are not owned by the LOC, they stay with the owner of the original material.
A review of Windows Movie Maker was presented so people could use the tool to create their digital stories. This part of the session is time intensive because of the unfamiliarity with the software on the part of some of the attendees. Additional handouts and files will be available from http://www.unco.edu/primarysources/tie/
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