Letting Your Life Speak Through Digital Storytelling Kristin

Letting Your Life Speak Through Digital Storytelling Kristin Norris, Director of Assessment IUPUI Center for Service & Learning Doctoral Candidate in Higher Education

Overview of Digital Stories

What is a digital story? An illustration of learning A way of documenting an experience(s) One way to facilitate the reflection process 4 -6 minute digital video clip First person narrative Told in your own voice Illustrated (mostly) by still images Additional music added to evoke emotions

What is Digital Storytelling? Refers to a kind of video story as well as the methodology used to produce them The methodology is the integration of knowledge, cutting, paraphrasing, revising, synthesizing, and reflecting (Alexander, 2001).

What makes for a great digital story? Overall purpose of the story Narrator’s point of view (emotional content) A dramatic question Choice of content Clarity of voice Pacing of the narrative Meaningful soundtrack Quality of the images Economy of the story detail Good grammar and language usage

Steps to develop a digital story 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. Write a script: write, get feedback, rewrite, and work with others (maybe in a group) to develop ideas Gather images to further illustrate your story Record the audio Edit, add transitions Add music Publish Present (upload to the web)

Copyright & Intellectual Property

Copyright Laws These days, almost all things are copyrighted the moment they are written, and no copyright notice is required. Copyright is still violated whether you charged money or not, only damages are affected by that. Fair use is a complex doctrine meant to allow certain valuable social purposes. Ask yourself why you are republishing what you are posting and why you couldn’t have just written it in your own words. Copyright is not lost because you don’t defend it. Fan fiction and other work derived from copyrighted work is a copyright violation. Don’t rationalize that you are helping the copyright holder; often it’s not hard to ask permission. www. templetons. com/brad/copymyths. html.

Why is copyrighting important? There are 2 reasons copyrights exist – to protect the author’s: Rights to obtain commercial benefit from valuable work Control how the work is used www. templetons. com/brad/copymyths. html.

In all reality…. Although it is technically illegal to reproduce just about everything (other than under fair use) without permission, if the work is unregistered and has no real commercial value, it gets very little protection. www. templetons. com/brad/copymyths. html.

Suggestions How will you document the source of your images and music? ? ? References slide at the end In ‘Description” when they post to You. Tube Need more help or a refresher of what I just said? http: //connect. iu. edu/p 2 l 850 pbun 6/

Storyboards

Purpose Another means for editing/proofing Assists with timing & pace of your story Helps to highlight important ideas, which will direct you in what images to gather Aids in the recording process

Example Storyboard Script/Sound Effect/Music Image/video Mary had a little lamb Drawing of Mary with her lamb in a field of flowers (sound – birds singing, girl humming the tune Whose fleece was white as snow Drawing of a snowflake (Sounds – girl continues to hum the tune) And everywhere that Mary went (Sound – girl continues to hum the tune) Drawing of Mary Walking into the mall

Step 1: highlight key words or concepts

Step 2: Identify when the transitions will occur. The “///” indicate the start of the next image.

Gathering Images

Gathering your Images Free from the web (Google images, Flickr) Get permissions for using images Export Powerpoint slides to JPEG Snipping Tool (Start Menu > All Programs > Accessories) Get your own! Example Digital story – There a LOT of images in this and too much text over some (sometimes text isn’t necessary), but illustrates the intentionality behind this step in the process.

Intro to Digital Storytelling Software

Programs analysis i. Movie (Mac) Photo. Story 3 (PC) Windows Live Movie Maker (PC) Garageband (audio) Built-in Audio recorder Built-in music Audacity (audio) Pros: • Ideal for Mac users, • great templates (transitions), • nice editing tool, • automatically publishes to You. Tube Pros: • Great transition tool • Easy to photo editor • Built-in tools Pros: • More commonly known Cons: • challenging to get started (even for Mac users) • hard for non-PC users Cons: • Small screen • Final product can seem choppier (recording on each slide) Cons: • Less flexibility with transitions • Must combine narrative and music on other software (Audacity)

Music

Music You. Tube (http: //www. youtube. com/) Public Unlisted **** Private Vimeo (http: //www. vimeo. com) Your e. Portfolio!

Producing Video & Publishing on the Web

Share/Publish You. Tube (http: //www. youtube. com/) Vimeo (http: //www. vimeo. com) Your e. Portfolio! Public vs Private/Unlisted

Questions? Kristin Norris (norriske@iupui. edu) Feel)