Digital Storytelling with PhotoStory3

A TCEA2006 presentation by Scott and Natalie Frienza. Website (click on sidebar for digital storytelling):

www.lubbockisd.org/sfirenza/

Photostory requires WMP10 and DirectX9, is WinXP only

7 story elements
1- A point of view: stories are told to make a point
– consider your audience and direct the point to them

2- A dramatic question

3- emotional content
– images
– music
– tone of voice
– can record student’s voice right away into the program

4- the gift of your voice
– take time to learn and practice your script so you can speak in a conversational voice

5- the power of a soundtrack
– great feature: built-in music component of program
– students can create their own music
– can change the style, tempo
– this addresses copyright issues

6- Economy
– plan to leave some of your work “on the cutting room floor”

What is a digital story?
– personal narrative
– fiction / non-fiction
– poetry
– retelling of a familiar story
– a persuasive / PSA
– summation of a unit of instruction

What do I have to do?
– Marco Torres: San Fernando Social Studies teacher, ADE
– Says to Follow the 4 P’s
– one of his students created a video questioning professors about why they are still teaching in a 19th century format

The 4 P’s from Marco Torres
1- Planning: script, timeline, storyboard
2- Production:
3-
4- Assessing with a silent P (using rubrics)

Jason Alier? in Alaska uses a “storymap” to create his digital stories
– what my story is about
– good to use with ANY type of story, not just digital stories
– can use a hot dog folded piece of paper to have script on left, and pictures and notes on right
– one entire page of script written on half a page like that can take an entire minute to read properly with expression

Natalie had 4th grade students take their “normal” writing assignments at the final draft form into the digital storytelling process
– I have never seen kids write like they did when I told them they would be recording their voices
– “recording voice” was such a tremendous motivator for students
– very excited about recording their own voices

thought it would be very time consuming, it really was not
– after students have decided what they would put in photo-wise, it just took a couple of days to find
– in our school, we can signup for time in the computer lab
– other students recording in the lab did not interfere with those who were

had zero classroom management problems when I was doing this
– great way to record a field trip too
– generally burn CDs for students at the end of the year
– am self-contained and teach every subject: another idea would be to give each group of students a tribe and had to

lots better than just textbook and taking notes
– good for engagement and retention

my thought: but let’s not keep it at the knowledge / comprehension level!!!

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