digital storytelling
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Digital storytelling provides many
diverse and rich learning experiences. A key feature of creating digital
stories is the manipulation of multimodalities to realise students existing
traditional print literacies in new and unique forms and modes. It adds another
dimension to reading, viewing and responding to literature as well as
authoring, illustrating, narrating and animating in new and digital
environments. Digital stories can take many forms, there are
many different applications both desktop based as well as web based which
can extend and diversify the potential of digital storytelling opportunities.
As with every other application of digital tools and technologies, the who, when, where and how of teaching and learning needs to form the basis of planning. You can use digital storytelling as a way of publishing student created texts beyond word processing, as a richer way of appropriating or writing alternative orientations, events or endings to existing texts and even using digital, particularly visual illustrations and animations as a deep way of teaching and working with the elements of visual literacy (where students are both viewers and illustrators).
Examples
Often, quality digital stories can exist as texts and literature in their own right with many aspects and themes available to identify, explore and analyse. Below is a link to some teacher examples of digital stories you can use as models or as texts for exploration. Dog Days and Identity are excellent ones to take a look at: http://www.acmi.net.au/learn_teacher_digital_stories.htmw
As with every other application of digital tools and technologies, the who, when, where and how of teaching and learning needs to form the basis of planning. You can use digital storytelling as a way of publishing student created texts beyond word processing, as a richer way of appropriating or writing alternative orientations, events or endings to existing texts and even using digital, particularly visual illustrations and animations as a deep way of teaching and working with the elements of visual literacy (where students are both viewers and illustrators).
Examples
Often, quality digital stories can exist as texts and literature in their own right with many aspects and themes available to identify, explore and analyse. Below is a link to some teacher examples of digital stories you can use as models or as texts for exploration. Dog Days and Identity are excellent ones to take a look at: http://www.acmi.net.au/learn_teacher_digital_stories.htmw
tools to try...
Web based tools are linked:
_Laetitia Cross (K-6 Deputy Principal) and Sue Morton (primary teacher/librarian)