Living in the Story and Unfolding Lessons Learned. If either of these two elements is missing, you likely are viewing a great digital story... but not storytelling.
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Living the Story
It is all about the connection with the audience. It is vital to make the story personable and "sticky" so they will remember it. Knowing what will capture one's attention, keep their attention, and and enthrall them in your story is the trick to storytelling. The more they can relate to the story, the more they will enjoy listening and staying engaged.
Unfolding Lessons Learned
So what? That is a question you never want the audience to ask while your telling a story. If they don't follow the story because they can't relate or difficulty in following the storyline. When one looks for a moral of the story it is basically asking them, what does it mean, how will this relate to me, how can i implement the lesson learned into my life. It is good to let the listeners find deeper meaning on there own, but the basic theme or lesson of the story should be plain and clearly stated. In the recent film, Lincoln, (which I would not recommend starting at 10:30 pm) had several examples of great story telling. Daniel Day-Lewis portrayed President Lincoln, and shared stories throughout the entire film utilizing the talents of Living the Story and Unfolding Lessons Learned.
It is all about the connection with the audience. It is vital to make the story personable and "sticky" so they will remember it. Knowing what will capture one's attention, keep their attention, and and enthrall them in your story is the trick to storytelling. The more they can relate to the story, the more they will enjoy listening and staying engaged.
Unfolding Lessons Learned
So what? That is a question you never want the audience to ask while your telling a story. If they don't follow the story because they can't relate or difficulty in following the storyline. When one looks for a moral of the story it is basically asking them, what does it mean, how will this relate to me, how can i implement the lesson learned into my life. It is good to let the listeners find deeper meaning on there own, but the basic theme or lesson of the story should be plain and clearly stated. In the recent film, Lincoln, (which I would not recommend starting at 10:30 pm) had several examples of great story telling. Daniel Day-Lewis portrayed President Lincoln, and shared stories throughout the entire film utilizing the talents of Living the Story and Unfolding Lessons Learned.
3 forms of Digital Storytelling in the classroom
As for students using digital storytelling, there are various programs and projects that they can use.
1) Comic Life is a great way to storyboard their various projects when digital storyboarding is used. If they are creating a project for a book report, they can use this as a guide or an actual report. This is also a great way to do a digital concept map. Social studies is often given the backseat due to time and core tested subjects. This is a slick way to take social studies and incorporate digital/technological topics.
2) Writing screen plays and short stories and creating a movie through iMovie. This is more complicated, but once you utilize this program and become familiar with it's functions, it is an invaluable tool to create different movies. You can utilize this with Comic Life, time lapses, and stop motion animation. It ties everything together and creates a fluid/watchable product. It also gives you the opportunity to create storyboarding within the movie. Along with movies, the trailer format is great for small projects.
3) iMotion is a FREE (I repeat, FREE) app that is easy to use and produces great productions... pending on the imagination, ingenuity and work of the user. As a class, we used pipe cleaners to create a stop-motion animated flick. One of the best aspects to the iMotion, is the ability to use another device as a remote to take pictures. This is incredibly useful when working with in a group. This can be used with, social studies, language arts, and even math. I thought that giving the students the opportunity to create stop motion movies with math manipulatives could be incredibly fun and informational.
1) Comic Life is a great way to storyboard their various projects when digital storyboarding is used. If they are creating a project for a book report, they can use this as a guide or an actual report. This is also a great way to do a digital concept map. Social studies is often given the backseat due to time and core tested subjects. This is a slick way to take social studies and incorporate digital/technological topics.
2) Writing screen plays and short stories and creating a movie through iMovie. This is more complicated, but once you utilize this program and become familiar with it's functions, it is an invaluable tool to create different movies. You can utilize this with Comic Life, time lapses, and stop motion animation. It ties everything together and creates a fluid/watchable product. It also gives you the opportunity to create storyboarding within the movie. Along with movies, the trailer format is great for small projects.
3) iMotion is a FREE (I repeat, FREE) app that is easy to use and produces great productions... pending on the imagination, ingenuity and work of the user. As a class, we used pipe cleaners to create a stop-motion animated flick. One of the best aspects to the iMotion, is the ability to use another device as a remote to take pictures. This is incredibly useful when working with in a group. This can be used with, social studies, language arts, and even math. I thought that giving the students the opportunity to create stop motion movies with math manipulatives could be incredibly fun and informational.
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