Tell+your+story

iLearnNYC: We Learn Through Stories: Digital Storytelling

Thursday, December 15th, 2016 8:30 to 3:00 PM Petrides Complex 715 Ocean Terrace Staten Island, NY Wednesday January 11th, 2017 from 8:30 AM to 3:00 PM 65 Court Street Brooklyn, NY 11201 Friday March 10th, 2017 8:30 to 3:00 PM 82-01 Rockaway Boulevard Queens, NY 11416 Wednesday, April 5th, 2017 45-18 Court Square Queens, NY 11101

This full day session will cover a variety of ways students and teachers alike can tell their own story. We will review free digital tools, copyright free resources, and video editing tips to publish a final digital story online.


 * Goals:**
 * Learn ways to use digital stories to engage students’ learning experiences.
 * Explore digital tools to build a multimedia digital story.
 * Publish a 1-2 minute trailer to your digital story


 * Agenda:**
 * 8:30 AM || Welcome and Icebreaker ||
 * 8:45 AM || What is digital storytelling? ||
 * 9:15 AM || View and critique samples ||
 * 9:45 AM || Digital Storytelling Process ||
 * 10:15 AM || Explore digital tools ||
 * 10:30 AM || Create a script and storyboard ||
 * 11:30 AM || Explore & Gather Copyright Free (images, music & narration) ||
 * 12:00- 12:45 PM || Lunch ||
 * 12:45 PM || Build your Digital Story
 * WeVideo Tutorial ||
 * 2:15 PM || Peer Review and Publish ||
 * 2:45 PM || Q & A and Survey ||

Workshop Flow:

Welcome and IceBreaker
 * What is your story? 5 minutes to interview one person in the workshop and introduce them to the group.

[|What is digital storytelling?] media type="custom" key="28883766"

[|View and critique samples]:
 * After watching an assortment of student created digital stories, identify one that really grabbed your attention. Note what you found most striking about the digital story. Include the main idea of the video. Specifically, how could digital storytelling be an instructional resource for teachers?

[|Educational Uses in the classroom] > According to Center for Digital Storytelling, there are seven elements critical to a good digital story: > > Digital Storytelling Process
 * Seven Elements of Digital Storytelling
 * Point of View — What is the perspective of the author? Dramatic Question — A key question that keeps the viewer’s attention and will be answered by the end of the story.
 * Emotional Content — Serious issues that come alive in a personal and powerful way and connects the audience to the story.
 * Voice — personalize the story with the author’s unique writing style to help the audience understand the context.
 * Soundtrack — Music or other sounds that support and embellish the story.
 * Economy — Using just enough content to tell the story without overloading the viewer.
 * Pacing — the rhythm of the story and how slowly or quickly it progresses.


 * Choosing Topic and Purpose

> >
 * Explore digital tools;
 * 1) [|Bookr—create stories from photos]
 * 2) [|Little Bird Tales]–upload drawings, add student voice to them–K, 1 best
 * 3) [|Newspapers, posters, comics—learn to create]
 * 4) [|StoryBird]—-storytelling with art–beautiful
 * 5) [|Adobe Spark]
 * 6) [|GoAnimate]
 * 7) [|VideoScribe]
 * 8) [|iMovie]
 * 9) [|Movie Maker]
 * 10) [|WeVideo]
 * Create script and a storyboard


 * Copyright free images and sound
 * [|Jamendo]
 * [|Incompetech]
 * [|Morgue File]
 * [|Compfight]
 * [|Pixabay]

> >
 * Build your digital story
 * Peer Review and Publish

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 * Digital Storytelling Websites **

1. __ [|Adobe Spark] -__ Adobe Spark Video is a free online video editor. Record your voice, add photos or icons, select from professional-quality sound tracts and cinematic motion.

2. __ [|Bubblr] -__ Bubblr is a tool to create comic strips using photos from flickr, just taking a sequence of pictures where you can add bubbles and create a story.

3. __ [|Capzles] -__ All of your media and stories together like never before. Create rich multimedia experiences with videos, photos, music, blogs, and documents.

4. __ [| Comic Master] -__ Comic Master allows you to create your own short graphic novel! With Comic Master you can decide how you want the page or your graphic novel to look, add backgrounds, choose characters and props to appear in your scenes, add dialogue and captions, and much more.

5. __ [|MakeBeliefsComix] -__ At MakeBeliefsComix you can create your own comic strip with an easy and fun way. Choose a character and emotion, add talk or thought balloons, and start your character communicating. You can add other characters, colored backgrounds, objects, and panel prompts to keep your viewers interested. When you are done, you can print or email your comic.

6. <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #1155cc; font-family: Questrial; font-size: 13.3333px; vertical-align: baseline;">__ [|PicLits] -__ <span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: Questrial; font-size: 13.3333px; vertical-align: baseline;">PicLits is a creative writing site that matches beautiful images with carefully selected keywords in order to inspire you. The object is to put the right words in the right place and the right order to capture the essence, story, and meaning of the picture.

<span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: Questrial; font-size: 13.3333px; vertical-align: baseline;">7. <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #1155cc; font-family: Questrial; font-size: 13.3333px; vertical-align: baseline;">__ [|Slidestory] -__ <span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: Questrial; font-size: 13.3333px; vertical-align: baseline;">Slidestory allows you to combine picture slideshows with voice narration. Each picture in a slideshow has an accompanying voice narrated mp3 audio file, optional tags, and text caption. Isn’t this a very exciting way to make presentations and share them?

<span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: Questrial; font-size: 13.3333px; vertical-align: baseline;">8. <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #1155cc; font-family: Questrial; font-size: 13.3333px; vertical-align: baseline;">__ [|Smilebox] -__ <span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: Questrial; font-size: 13.3333px; vertical-align: baseline;">Smilebox lets you quickly and easily create slideshows, invitations, greetings, collages, scrapbooks, and photo albums right on your computer. To get started, download and install the Smilebox application. Then simply select the photos you want to use, choose a template, add comments and music, and voila, you’ve made a Smilebox! With more than 1000 customizable templates to choose from, you’ll find inspiration around every corner.

<span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: Questrial; font-size: 13.3333px; vertical-align: baseline;">9. <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #1155cc; font-family: Questrial; font-size: 13.3333px; vertical-align: baseline;">__ [|Storybird] -__ <span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: Questrial; font-size: 13.3333px; vertical-align: baseline;">Storybird lets anyone make visual stories in seconds. They curate artwork from illustrators and animators around the world and inspire writers of any age to turn those images into fresh stories. Note that while making, sharing, and reading stories on Storybird is free, printing them or downloading them have various fees that are clearly explained with each option.


 * <span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: Questrial; font-size: 13.3333px; vertical-align: baseline;">Free Apps For Digital Storytelling **

<span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: Questrial; font-size: 13.3333px; vertical-align: baseline;">1. <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #1155cc; font-family: Questrial; font-size: 13.3333px; vertical-align: baseline;">__ [|Adobe Slate/Spark] -__ <span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: Questrial; font-size: 13.3333px; vertical-align: baseline;">Named App Store Editors’ Choice, Adobe Slate lets you turn your next newsletter, report, invitation, or travel adventure into a gorgeous visual story that delights readers on any device. Simply tap to select a unique look; beautiful fonts, color, and magazine-style design are automatically incorporated. Fluid movement and elegant motion are applied instantly. Create your Slate story and share the link anywhere.

<span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: Questrial; font-size: 13.3333px; vertical-align: baseline;">2. <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #1155cc; font-family: Questrial; font-size: 13.3333px; vertical-align: baseline;">__ [|Puppet Pals] -__ <span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: Questrial; font-size: 13.3333px; vertical-align: baseline;">Create your own unique shows with animation and audio in real time! Simply pick out your actors and backdrops, drag them on to the stage, and tap record. Your movements and audio will be recorded in real time for playback later. This app is as fun as your own creativity!

<span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: Questrial; font-size: 13.3333px; vertical-align: baseline;">3. <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #1155cc; font-family: Questrial; font-size: 13.3333px; vertical-align: baseline;">__ [|ShowMe Interactive Whiteboard] -__ <span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: Questrial; font-size: 13.3333px; vertical-align: baseline;">Turn your iPad into your personal interactive whiteboard: ShowMe allows you to record voice over whiteboard tutorials and share them online. It’s an amazingly simple app that anyone can use; no matter how young or old.

<span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: Questrial; font-size: 13.3333px; vertical-align: baseline;">4. <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #1155cc; font-family: Questrial; font-size: 13.3333px; vertical-align: baseline;">__ [| Sock Puppets] -__ <span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: Questrial; font-size: 13.3333px; vertical-align: baseline;">Sock Puppets lets you create your own lip-synched videos and share them on Facebook and YouTube. Add puppets, props, scenery, and backgrounds and start creating. Hit the record button and the puppets automatically lip-synch to your voice.

<span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: Questrial; font-size: 13.3333px; vertical-align: baseline;">5. <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #1155cc; font-family: Questrial; font-size: 13.3333px; vertical-align: baseline;">__ [|Toontastic] -__ <span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: Questrial; font-size: 13.3333px; vertical-align: baseline;">Toontastic is a storytelling and creative learning tool that enables kids to draw, animate, and share their own cartoons with friends and family around the world through simple and fun imaginative play! With over 2 million cartoons created in over 150 countries, parents and teachers rave about the app and kids can't stop creating!

<span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: Questrial; font-size: 13.3333px; vertical-align: baseline;">6. <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #1155cc; font-family: Questrial; font-size: 13.3333px; vertical-align: baseline;">__ [|WeVideo] __ <span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: Questrial; font-size: 13.3333px; vertical-align: baseline;">Make and share videos using WeVideo's online video editing software, available on Android, iPhone, iPad, Mac, PC, and Chromebook. In this cloud-based collaborative video creation platform, you can save your work to your hard drive, upload to the cloud, and pick up where you left off on another computer. Note that free accounts are limited to 5 minutes of published video time and 2GB of cloud storage.

<span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: Questrial; font-size: 13.3333px; vertical-align: baseline;">7. <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #1155cc; font-family: Questrial; font-size: 13.3333px; vertical-align: baseline;">__ [|30hands Starter] __ <span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: Questrial; font-size: 13.3333px; vertical-align: baseline;">A very easy and exciting way to tell a story, explain a concept, or flip a classroom. Create a multimedia presentation in minutes and publish it as a video to share. This tool was designed to be simple and fast, so it takes backseat to learning and expression. In a single class period, students can complete a video activity. Mapping these activities to a longer project helps students make PBL projects authentic and fun. Whether you are in Kindergarten or College, 30hands Storyteller helps you learn better by following UDL principles and getting you to think and create iteratively.