Digital+Storytelling

=**Digital StoryTelling**=

With new software and hardware that have streamlined the process, Digital Storytelling is fast becoming the hot new teaching strategy. Done effectively, digital storytelling can be an effective teaching and learning strategy that encompasses many 21st Century learning skills as well as literacy, collaborative and project-based learning skills. On this page, I have listed many of my favorite Digital Storytelling resources and web sites that have helped me in my professional development activities, particularly for the Alabama Institute for Education in the Arts and the Alabama Alliance for Arts Education. Keep an eye on this page--I will be posting more resources soon!

**Resources for Video in Education**
http://edcommunity.apple.com/ali/story.php?itemID=365 The Videography for Educators exhibit features tips and techniques to assist in the creation of quality video products. The exhibit provides example planning documents and video examples to illustrate concepts and skills.
 * Apple’s Videography for Educators**

http://www.springfield.k12.il.us/movie/timeline.html As part of a Language Arts-Social Studies project, students researched personal and historical events to create a timeline for each year of their life. The project allowed students to gain an understanding of how historical events leave lasting impressions on the world.
 * Life's Timeline**

http://www.springfield.k12.il.us/movie/fire.html Teachers are amazed at the long list of facts that today's college freshman have never known. These freshman, born in 1982, have no meaningful recollection of the Reagan Era. They have never owned a record player. They of course use a VCR, but have no idea what BETA is. Teachers smile and nod knowingly at these facts, but then they look around at their teaching peers. It is not unusual for the faculty at a single school to have graduated from high school in the 50's, 60's, 70's 80's and 90's. The facts they could list from their own adolescent years and the differences each decade has seen is truly startling. (Keep in mind that this is actually dated itself—it’s missing about the last 10 years.)
 * Creating the iMovie "We Didn't Start the Fire"**

http://www.atomiclearning.com/storyboardpro Atomic Learning's FREE Video StoryBoard Pro is designed to give teachers, students, and home movie makers a tool to plan ahead when creating video projects. Designed to give teachers and students and home movie makers a tool to plan ahead when creating video projects. This page also has access to video production tips and tricks, lesson planning, assessment ideas and strategies as well as the link for the free download.
 * StoryBoard Pro**

prepared by David Brear, updated May 2, 2007 http://members.shaw.ca/dbrear/dst.html A really comprehensive list of Digital Storytelling links, tools, guides and resources.
 * Digital Story Telling**

http://www.coe.uh.edu/digital-storytelling/default.htm Probably one of the best and most comprehensive sites on the web devoted to digital storytelling in education. Contains extensive lists of resources, examples, instruction, assessment and other information for those who are wanting to implement digital storytelling in their curriculum.
 * Educational Uses of Digital Storytelling**

http://cogdogroo.wikispaces.com/50+Ways It was not long ago that producing multimedia digital content required expensive equipment and technical expertise; we are at the point now where we can do some very compelling content creation with nothing more complex than a web browser and access to some of the new web-based tools that we now have on hand.
 * 50 Web 2.0 Ways To Tell a Story **