Description
Book SynopsisA must-read for incorporating digital literacy into your classroom!
As the saying goes, If you want someone to remember something, tell them a story. But if you really want your students to remember what they learn, then let them create their own digital stories.
Digital storytelling empowers your students to be confident communicators and creators of media as they gain essential 21st-century literacy skills and reach deeper understandings in all areas of the curriculum. Aligned with refreshed ISTE and Common Core standards, this new edition of Digital Storytelling in the Classroom includes:
- Practical techniques for combining storytelling with your curriculum content
- Tips for exploring effective storytelling principles through emerging digital media as well as via traditional literacy skills in reading, writing, speaking, and art
- Information on relevant copyright and fair use laws
- Visual aids and vide
Table of Contents
Foreword by David D. Thornburg Preface Acknowledgments About the Author Part I. Storytelling, Education, and the New Media 1. Confessions of a Digital Storytelling Teacher: Twenty Revelations About Digital Storytelling in Education 2. Defining and Discussing Digital Storytelling: Helping Teachers See, Think, and Talk About Digital Storytelling 3. Digital Storytelling as an Educational Tool: Standards, Planning, and Literacy 4. Assessing Digital Stories: The Opportunities and Challenges of New Media Evaluation Part II. The Art and Practice of Storytelling 5. Thinking About Story: The Story Core, Story Mapping, Story Types 6. Applying Story Maps, Using Story Tables: Seeing the Core, Mapping the Story, Creating a Story Table 7. Story Planning Considerations: Tips, Techniques, Lessons Learned 8. Transformation Formations: How We, and the Characters in Our Stories, Change 9. More Story Maps: From Aristotle to Present Day 10. Other Kinds of Stories: Other Story Forms and Story Perspectives Part III. Going Digital 11. The Media Production Process, Phase I: Developing the Story 12. The Media Production Process, Phases II-V: From Preproduction to Performance 13. The Digital Storytelling Toolbox: The Tools Teachers and Students Need to Tell Digital Stories 14. Media Grammar for Teachers: Assessing Media Expression 15. Copyright, Fair Use, and UOPS: Living in the Gray Zone, Doing the Right Thing, and Protecting Yourself Epilogue: If I Had a Time Machine Resource A. Teaching Oral Storytelling Resource B. Audio Techniques for Video Recording Oral Storytelling Resource C. Audio Techniques for Interviewing People Resource D. Freytag′s Pyramid Resource E. Grammar of Camera Angles Resource F. What′s Scannable? Resource G. Joseph Campbell′s Story Adventure Diagram Resource H. Visual Portrait of a Story References Index
