Digital Storytelling Workshop
Two Day Agenda
June 10: 8:30 AM –4:00 PM
June 11: 8:30 AM – 4:00 PM

Workshop Objectives: Participants will

1. Understand the application of digital storytelling with students and the development of communication skills
2. Gain skills in using simple video editing tools to construct digital stories and complete a two minute digital story
    

*Readings for Jigsaw Activity

Making a Case for Digital Storytelling By David Jakes Dec 1, 2005
URL: http://www.techlearning.com/story/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=174401140

Standards-Proof Your Digital Storytelling Efforts By David Jakes Mar 1, 2006
URL: http://www.techlearning.com/story/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=180204072

Digital Storytelling Finds Its Place in the Classroom by Tom Banaszewski  January/February 2002
URL: http://www.infotoday.com/MMSchools/jan02/banaszewski.htm

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Web Resources:

David Brear’s website on digital storytelling: http://members.shaw.ca/dbrear/dst.html
Educational Uses of Digital Storytelling: http://www.coe.uh.edu/digital-storytelling/default.htm
Dr. Barrett’s websites on digital storytelling: http://electronicportfolios.com/digistory/
              and              http://sites.google.com/site/digitalstorysite/

Lesson Plans: Sharing Culture with Digital Stories on the Scholastic site:
http://www.scholastic.com/dreamincolor/digitalstorytelling/

There is a progress chart on the wall that represents the progress of each project for each step of the process below, with suggested deadlines over the next day and a half. As soon as you complete a task, “X” your progress on the chart.

I.               Script – Look at examples of specific stories on the WWW. Use the Script template, answering these questions: Who is your audience? What is your dramatic question? You may want to go over your script with a facilitator before recording your voice-overs. [Complete by beginning of Day 2.]

II.               Record Voice Narration – Use Audacity or an audio editor to record voiceovers. Save as .wav or .mp3 files. Use a USB drive to transfer your audio clips to your computer. [Complete by mid-morning break on Day 2.]
 

III.               Images Scanned and Sized – when searching Google images, select only the Large images – scanning from a book use 200 DPI. Import one image at a time. Using a graphics editor (Adobe Photoshop Elements or Picasa) to fix, crop and resize your pictures. For computer screen viewing pictures should be 640pixels by 480pixels at 80-100 dpi (dots per inch) minimum.

IV.              Background Music (If you record voiceovers you will only be able to add music with Audacity before importing into MovieMaker) – Freeplaymusic.com is a good starting point. Edit sound track in Audacity.

V.               Rough edit – Create a MovieMaker Project and save it immediately in a new folder... SAVE Often!
Copy all of your images and audio into that same new folder.
Place your narration (II), sound track (IV) and images (III) on the timeline in approximate locations. Wait to apply very much of the effects to images until the next step. Ask for feedback. [Complete by end of lunch on Day 2.]

              Titles, Transitions, and Effects. Fine-tune as you have time (follow the order: Titles first, Transition second, Effects last).
Create titles with the source of your images, music, you as author.

VI.              Final Edit (Ask for final feedback) [Complete by mid-afternoon break on Day 2.]
Publish: save at least two versions of your file (File Menu -> Share):
Best Quality-Small (and name it your “projectnameCD”) (which can be played from the CD)
WebStreaming (and name it “projectnameweb”) (which can be posted online)
Best Quality-Large (and name it “projectnamebig”) (which can be put on a DVD or looks better in a presentation, but only plays well from a hard drive)

VII.              Showtime! We will watch the “big” version of your movie. [At approximately 2:30 PM on Day 2]

VIII.              Back up to CD. To burn a CD, insert a blank CD into the CD drive. If asked, select “Open in Finder”. A new CD icon will appear on the desktop. Drag the files over the new CD image. When ready, drag the CD into the trash and it will begin to burn.

Burn the following onto a CD: both of these movies and a folder with all of your project source files (voice overs and original images).

Burn a second CD with just the iMovie project folder (if it is under 650 MB).

**If the folder is over 650MB, delete unnecessary files from the “shelf” and empty trash (File Menu -> Empty Trash). Select the project folder in the Finder, and select File Menu-> Get Info to determine its size. If your computer has the capability, burn the movie Project file to a DVD. It cannot be edited on the CD/DVD, but can be copied back onto a hard drive to edit further.

Media Release. If you are willing to share your story with others, you will need to provide a Media Release, or provide a URL to your movie posted on the Internet.