Digital Storytelling
Overview
For this lesson students are required to read"To Kill a Mockingbird" by Harper Lee. Students will then demonstrate an understanding by creating a digital story. Students will give an overview of their favorite part of the book, and present it to the class. Students will create a digital story for their presentation.
What is Digital Storytelling?
Digital storytelling involves using technology to tell stories. You can tell digital stories in many ways, for example: through text on a website or social media tool, through narration and images in a video, or through narration in a podcast.
Digital stories are not just facts presented with accompanying images, they are narratives crafted to take the listener or reader on a journey. Just like a novel or a documentary, digital stories have a plot, characters, and themes.
What are the Benefits of Digital Storytelling?
Benefits
Digital storytelling creates space for meaningful listening. Digital stories provide with the opportunity to digest information in a meaningful way.
- Digital storytelling persuades the brain and the heart. Digital stories teach the value of emotional rhetoric, allowing you to explore new ways of acting or thinking differently.
- The method allows you to showcase your learning to peers. Not only will you benefit from receiving information through digital stories but also from making digital stories that feature your experiences and learnings.
How Does Digital Storytelling Benefit You?
By using and creating digital stories you will be able to :
- Organize and express ideas through knowledge
- Design and communicate information
- Create ideas you want to tell or share
- Combine imagination skills
- Problem solve
- Edit
How Do I Get Started?
Follow these 6 Steps to get started creating your own digital story
- Point of view. What’s your perspective?
- A dramatic question. What uncertainty drives the piece, and how does it resolve?
- Emotional content. What issues connect your audience to the story, and how do they emotionally respond to them?
- The gift of your voice. How can you personalize the story?
- The power of the soundtrack. What sounds will you use to support the story?
- Economy. What amount of content do you need to tell your story? What can you cut?
Your Turn!
Now it is your turn to create your own digital story!
Previously, we analyzed “To Kill a Mockingbird,” by Harper Lee.
For the unit’s culminating assessment, you will choose your favorite part of “To Kill a Mockingbird” with the intention of communicate it to the audience, using a digital medium.
- Media may include any combination of the following: text, images, video, audio, social media elements (like tweets), or interactive elements (like maps).
Have Fun!!!