It has been suggested that digital storytelling may enhance students' engagement in learning. Students can use of a variety of web tools in experimenting with a set of important skills and literacies in a multimodal environment. They can use text, audio, video and images to communicate their ideas and enhance their visual literacy and writing competencies (see embedded link).
If you incorporate digital storytelling in your teaching, do you apply it in individual or group projects? How do you assess these digital storytelling projects? Which tools do you find particularly useful?
Do you have advice for teachers who find themselves in resource-poor environments such as developing countries? Would mobile phones be suitable for digital storytelling in such contexts? Which apps would be particularly useful if this is the case?
I enclose three links that may be relevant to the discussion.
http://officialandreascy.blogspot.com/2015/09/8-ways-digital-storytelling-transforms.html
http://sociallearningcommunity.com/digital-storytelling_tools/
http://www.educatorstechnology.com/2014/12/excellent-chart-comparing-best-digital.html
Our department has recently created a whole media platform www.cceuog.co.uk. One of our researchers presented a stop motion video (that she had made) as an introduction to an oral presentation at a conference. This was a very successful presentation where many had engaged with the video and spoke to her during the breaks. This resulted in networking and potential collaboration.
With media you have to decide where and when to incorporate, if it is distracting or appropriate to the theme and how it will be delivered on the day.
Leona:
Yes I have, especially in discussing educational topics that address societal issues such as school violence. Sometimes, these sensitive issues are hard to put into words for students to actually share their views, so they do better in letting the pictures or graphics tell the story with brief annotations for the story telling. Of course, you would have to set guidelines as to the use of appropriate graphics etc. I use Photo Story which is very user-friendly.
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Debra
Hi,
In our business school we are using case studies to support our lectures. Even using video cases. You can consider them as a scenario or story.
Habib
Dear Jae, thank you for your response. I would be curious to know how you incorporate digital storytelling in your teaching, for instance, which tool(s) do you use and how do you prepare students for these narratives? Which subjects do you find digital storytelling particularly relevant to? Do students share their digital stories with their peers?
Dear colleagues, this information is a bit late, but you may still be able to submit abstracts for the following two events (maybe until the end of the week?).
http://www.inter-disciplinary.net/probing-the-boundaries/storytelling-global-reflections-on-narrative/research-streams/courses-and-workshops/getting-your-message-across/
http://www.inter-disciplinary.net/probing-the-boundaries/storytelling-global-reflections-on-narrative/research-streams/storytelling-global-reflections-on-narrative/story-2-call-for-papers/
Theatre and Digital Storytelling for Teaching and Training Development
http://www.teatrgrodzki.pl/en/projekty/td-stories-historie-teatralne-i-multimedialne-w-ksztalceniu-i-szkoleniach/
Hi
Educational Uses of Digital Storytelling:
https://digitalliteracyintheclassroom.pbworks.com/f/Educ-Uses-DS.pdf
http://langwitches.org/blog/wp-content/uploads/2009/12/Digital-Storytelling-Guide-by-Silvia-Rosenthal-Tolisano.pdf
http://www.pdsttechnologyineducation.ie/en/Training/ICT-in-Classroom-PDFs/ICT-in-the-Classroom-PDFs/Using-digital-storytelling-in-the-classroom-Primary-13-04.pdf
Dear Leona, thanks for posing this up to date question and for recommending my article. My personal experience derives from both educational research and practical implementation in the classroom. My approach to utilizing digital storytelling stems primarily from a multiliteracies oriented instructional approach. In this sense, I incorporated digital storytelling as a tool to enhance language learning for my primary aged students, in terms of engaging them in a more fun and meaningful way by having them work in groups over the course of a semester and using one iPad per group. I would recommend using Book Creator http://www.redjumper.net/bookcreator/ for developing your book although there are many other apps you can use. Drawing on multiliteracies pedagogy, I used formative assessment, e.g rubric and self-evaluation sheets, as well as audiovisual comic book.
Concurrently, I found that using digital storytelling as part of a blended learning approach combined with multiliteracies pedagogy can empower learning for my culturally and linguistically diverse students. This was also evident in my doctoral research which was focused on technology enhanced museum learning via multiliteracies. Overall, my understanding is that digital storytelling could be a powerful tool for inclusive learning.
http://bit.ly/digitalstorytellinglearning
Resources for Digital Storytelling, University of Maryland, Baltimore
Resources for digital storytelling (personal narratives in which the author reflects on a life experience). Digital storytelling techniques are used in classrooms as a means of self-expression and developing digital literacy skills.
http://stories.umbc.edu/profiles.php
you hit the nail on the head Krishnan, narratives are effective tools for enhancing students' self expression, eloquence, argumentation and description abilities.
I am currently using digital storytelling to research the higher education student experience, especially for so called 'hard to reach' students such as mature students, BME students etc. We are discussing journeys to HE, challenges which were overcome, and narratives which discuss belonging and othering. I am providing workshops outside of taught sessions and using Adobe Spark software.
I am also interested in how digital stortytelling can be used as a research method (in which the stories are analysed) and as a way of reflecting/evaluating project outcomes.
You can use the digital storytelling to teach difficult concepts like sampling by telling a story that you can use to reflect and explain difficult research concepts to students. The latter story should relate to their prior experiences, readings, or local/societal issue. Jesus used it in his teachings while on earth in the form of parables in spreading and converting people to Christianity.
Best regards,
Debra
Yes, I have included digital story telling in my teaching. I strongly recommend it for every teacher because I found it very effective. Even when I believe we should have more research on it, I strongly advocate that we shall include it or atleast try to use it while teaching.
Yes, I included DST for science teaching, specially for teaching Physics. In my project, Pre-service teachers were trained then tasked to create digital stories which were then sharedin YouTube. The pre-service teachers perceived the generated materials to be effective in helping learners understand Physics topics such as photoelectric effect, general creativity,blackbody radiation, and Compton scattering, which are highly baffling for the learners due totheir highly abstract concepts. Moreover, the pre-service teachers affirmed that the task allowedthem more creativity in designing projects and assignments.
Also, I used DST in Physics class to develop students' 21st century skills and it was effective. Moreover, I carried out a study with high school students to examine DST effect on physics academic achievement. There were significant changes. You can see more on my page. Thank you.
There's no age bar to hear stories. Analogies can be well built to make, even complex issues be explained easily. The child ego stage exists in every one.
Digital storytelling can be used in many curricula areas and/or levels of teaching and learning, from preschool to tertiary education. Not only will students of all ages find it fun, easy and engaging but it also enhances cognitive affective and psychomotor experiences. Digital storytelling can be used at any stage of a lesson, as a set induction or introduction, as a teaching strategy or formative and summative assessment tool. The benefits of digital storytelling are wide and deep.
I've used mobile phones with students to create digital stories - the video function has been used to record them performing their stories and the camera has been used to create photo montage storyboards to illustrate their stories.
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