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Various sites providing inspiration and guidance on the use of digital storytelling in education.
Updated on 2012-03-14
Created on 2010-07-21
Category: Schools & Education
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Useful Sites about Digital Storytelling
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Wiki produced by Martin Jenkins and Phil Gravestock at the University of Gloucestershire on using digital storytelling for learning and teaching, assessment, 21st century literacies etc.
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Downloadable book on technology and pedagogy edited by Terry Mayes, Derek Morrison, Harvey Mellar, Peter Bullen and Martin Oliver.\n\nChapter 18 focussing on digital storytelling in HE.
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A very detailed analysis of using digital stories within higher eductaion. There are some really good examples but also documented findings about the efficacy of the approach.
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Understanding Narrative
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How storytelling has a role in teaching of Maths. Example from the US schools curriculum.
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A great example of how storytelling can increase the emotional impact of a message. You can take out all the anecdotal aspects of this article and still be left with the relevant information. With the story as the frame for the information, though, it carries a lot more impact and is much more memorable.
Also, my youngest is learning to swim so I have a pretty big reason to remember this! -
Techniques
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From the Free Technology for Teachers blog - useful sources of images that could be worth investigating if you are looking for material for digital storytelling, blogging or other projects
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Tools
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Collaborative tool for creating group stories out of images and text.
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Project site for a developing mobile educational gaming tool that blends location-based apps with storytelling
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A nice-looking tool with associated iPhone app for creating stories out of a range of media. Sort of like a multi-media timeline.
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Web tool for creating visually arresting slideshows. Similar to Animoto but easier to administer and has a useful voiceover fuinction.
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Home page for the MS Photo Story software. Accessible, free software from MS for building digital stories out of still images, text, sound and music
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Digital Storytelling Examples
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A Uni news item from Chester on how Prof Derek France has secured funding to support the use of digital media in enhancing learning on field trips.
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Alec Couros uses stoytelling tools to create a trailer for a presentation on Open Doctrine. \nPlaced at the start of a live presentation it's a great way to engage an audience.
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The beginning of an archive of digital stories from people who have lived in Cardiff.
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How Google Earth can be used to help tell stories. In this case it's a look at the locations of the journey documented in Cormac McCarthy's The Road.
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Example of how storytelling can be used to make a complex idea accessible.\n\nThe tools used to create this are obviously advanced but there are some principles that can be applied to simpler media
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This was constructed using a iGotU GPS tracker and a Canon EOS 450
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Innovative approach to analysing scientific data through sound rather than numbers or visual representation.\n\nThese sounds are quite eerie. It's difficult for a non-particle physicist to know exactly what each of these means but it's intriguing from the point of view of using different media to convey a message or story.
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Insider view of how the digital novel "Inanimate Alice" came to be. An intriguing glimpse inside a publishing innovation
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