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**What is Digital Storytelling? ** media type="youtube" key="3yU8zE5LBBY" height="364" width="445"

Digital storytelling involves combining the art of telling stories with a mixture of digital graphics, text, recorded audio narration, video and music to present information on a specific topic.

**Why should I think about digital storytelling in my classroom? ** TEN top reasons for implementing storytelling:
 * 1) Inspires dedication to work
 * 2) Promotes problem solving
 * 3)   Embraces diversity
 * 4) Captivates attention
 * 5) Peaks interest in writing
 * 6) Fosters group dynamics
 * 7)   Addresses different learning styles
 * 8) Creates positive classroom climate
 * 9) Incorporates multiple intelligences
 * 10)  Encourages creativity

**How do I begin digital storytelling?**
 * <span style="font-size: 14pt; color: #ff0000; font-family: Georgia, serif;">What is the digital storytelling process? **
 * **Pre-writing:** brainstorming, collecting images, researching, outlining, and storyboarding
 * **Drafting:** creating a script and developing form
 * **Revising:** modifying images and organization
 * **Editing:** timing, images, and narration
 * **Publishing:** the final product

There are a number of ways that teachers use and apply digital storytelling in the classroom. The intention is to follow and learn the process FIRST by creating one for yourself. A clear understanding of what and how you might manage, adapt and/or chunk the process with students is then known.

When working with students, the seven main steps as mentioned by Angie Simmons are: 1. Share learning intentions and show examples 2. Put the digital camera to work 3. Plan the story 4. Create a storyboard 5. Gather the resources 6. Create the digital story 7. Share and celebrate the digital stories

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The seven elements for creating effective and interesting multimedia stories are: ** 1. A Point (of View) ** <span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">** 6. Economy ** <span style="font-weight: 400; color: #ff0000; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">** 7. Pacing ** <span style="font-weight: 400; color: #000000; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">
 * Stories are told to make a point and should not be presented as a recitation of mere facts. Define the premise of your story so that all parts can serve to make the point. Consider your audience and direct the point to them.
 * <span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">2. A Dramatic Question **
 * You want to capture your audience’s attention at the beginning of the piece and hold their interest throughout. Typically you want to pose the dramatic question in the opening lines and resolve it in the closing lines.
 * <span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">3. Emotional Content **
 * Emotional content can help hold your audiences attention. The images, effects, music and tone of voice all lend to contributing emotion to the piece. Try to keep the elements consistent with the emotion of the moment.
 * <span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">4. The Gift of Your Voice **
 * Your voice is a great gift and even thought you don’t like to hear it, others do. If you “read” your script your audience will not know how to react. Take time to learn and practice your script so you can speak in a conversational voice. Record several takes and select the best one. Trust that your audience will think it is perfect.
 * <span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">5. The Power of The Soundtrack **
 * Music is a big plus to a digital story. The right music can set the story in time and can convey emotion. Play music behind an image and a specific emotion is generated. Change the music behind the same image and an entirely different emotion is experienced. Sound effects can add tension and excitement to a piece, but be careful, they can be a distraction too.
 * <span style="color: #000000; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Plan to leave some of your work on the “cutting room floor”. A compact, fast moving digital story will contain only those elements necessary to move the audience from beginning to end. We know that our brains are constantly filling in (from our own experiences) details from suggestions made by sights and sounds. Don’t give every minute detail to clarify your story, let your audience fill in some of the blanks.
 * <span style="font-weight: 400; color: #000000; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The rhythm of the piece is what keeps your audience’s interest in the story. Changing pace within the story can facilitate moving the audience from one emotion to another. Music tempo, speech rate, image duration, and panning and zooming speed all work to establish pace. Generally pace will be consistent, but one in a while it will pause, accelerate, decelerate, stop or blast-off. Trust your own senses, we all move at our own pace.

<span style="font-size: 12pt; color: #ff0000; font-family: Georgia, serif;">**<span style="font-size: 14pt; color: #ff0000; font-family: Georgia, serif;">What might storyboards have to do with digital storytelling? ** Storyboards are visual representations that aid in the the creation process of digital storytelling. Storyboards layout images in sequential order to create the the flow of the production. They can also include technical aspects and explanations of design. Each project is unique and varies in its needs; specific requirements should be altered. The following is suggested content: a brief description, comments, audio, transition and an estimate of length.

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