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Digital Story Telling
Using Photo Story 3
Digital story telling is a concept that every teacher should know about. Its essence is about telling stories that are enhanced with digital images. What is most important about digital storytelling, as Jeannie Biddle says, "It is not about the product, it is about the process", and the process is really the writing of the story. One of the easiest ways to create a digital story is to use a piece of free software from Microsoft called Photo Story 3. It can only be downloaded to a computer that is running a Microsoft Operating System (XP, Vista, Window 2000...). If you have a computer with an Apple Operating system that isn't able to run it, we have provided some links to tutorials for iMovie4 specifically about Digital Storytelling.
The Digital Story Telling detailed process can be found here. It includes:
The Digital Story Telling detailed process can be found here. It includes:
- Planning the story
- 7 Elements of a story
- Writing the story
- Creating a storyboard
- Making the movie
- 7 Elements of a story- www.storycenter.org tutorial
- Use a graphic organizer to help create a storyboard such as Webspiration, bubbl.us, or gliffy
- Link to free storyboard downloads: http://www.printablepaper.net/category/storyboard
- Use music following all copyright rules. Take this copyright quiz and then check out the chart.
- Download Photostory 3, install it on your computer and watch the video to learn how easy it is to use.
- "Create Your First Photo Story" - 5 page tutorial
- Video Tutorial for Photo Story 3
- Text version of the video tutorial go to: http://tinyurl.com/ps3texttutorial
- Step by step tutorial you can download: photostory.pdf
Video Tutorials for iMovie
For those of you who are Mac users, you will not be able to use PhotoStory3. You have a built in application called iMovie. Click on the image to view the video tutorial from Apple.
Recorded Video Session Tutorials
I have compiled all the recorded video session tutorials for Digital StoryTelling together here for your convenience. Click on any of the links below to see the tutorial from one of the instructors.
From "21 Things - Berrien, Calhoun, Kalamazoo"
From "21 Things - Berrien, Calhoun, Kalamazoo"
- Digital Storytelling - PhotoStory 3 (Gina Loveless - 15:06)
- Digital Storytelling - Mac Specific: iMovie (Kevin Clark - 22:55)
Additional Resources
- For more resources on Digital Story Telling go to: http://delicious.com/cmccarthy and select the tag for DigitalStoryTelling (no spaces)
- Also look under: http://pageflakes.com/fmiracola and select the Digital Story Telling tab.
- You can copyright your work by going to the Creative Commons site and review the different licenses available to put on your work. As students begin to publish their stories on the Internet, it is helpful to teach them about the process of copyrighting their works as well as the different options available.
- Another great resource for Digital Story Telling is a site that publishes digital stories from around the world, adn also promotes classroom pairing to share stories directly with each other, through a defined project. http://www.epals.com/projects/info.aspx?DiviD=Digital_overview is the overview of the digital storytelling project, with hyperlinks to additional information. This is all available at no cost to schools worldwide.
- Some music resources: incompetech royalty free (search by genre), Soundzabound royalty free fro education, RoyaltyFreeMusic.com royalty free music for education, historical music that is copyright free.
- Check out Microsoft's MovieMaker, a program that usually comes standard on PC machines using Microsoft Windows XP and higher. Similar to Mac's iMovie, drag and drop photos, add transitions, and create a digital story.
- Check out Animoto, VoiceThread or PhotoPeach for unique ways to display your photos or tell digital stories.