DigitalStory.ca
25 episodes - English - Latest episode: over 10 years ago - ★★★★★ - 1 ratingHelping people tell their stories.
Homepage Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
Episodes
Fathers and Sons
January 15, 2014 12:59I hope to add to the CDS collection of Fathers and Sons digital stories this weekend. After a year of assisting others with their stories, I'm turning the tables and starting the year off by attending Joe Lambert's standard session in NYC.
Original 55
November 03, 2013 13:08Digital Storytelling Teachers Group at ECOO 2010 Creative Commons Photo Credit: Andrew Forgrave As I prepare for my latest digital storytelling session at the end of the month with teachers at a school-based professional learning group, I've been looking back to the many sessions and resources collected over the years. In 2009 I was alerted via a blog post by my friend and fellow digital storytelling influencer Gareth Morlais about a book that was ground-breaking at the time. Story Circ...
Fish Stories
August 26, 2013 11:11Creative Commons 2.0 Flickr Photo by: CaliforniaDFG We've all heard our share of fish stories. Recently I had the pleasure of listening on two separate occasions to two different fish stories told by two different men in their '80s. The first was on the plane back from Vancouver a couple of weeks ago. I had the pleasure of sitting next to an octogenarian whose adventures made me tired just listening. He'd flown an hour and a half north of Vancouver to fish with his sons and grandsons for ...
Choosing Your Story - Turning Points
June 15, 2013 10:25It can be difficult choosing a topic for your very first digital story. It helps to see a few examples ahead of time to get the feel for how a digital story is structured. But still, it can be difficult. Especially if you have several stories to tell. Narrowing down a topic that lends itself well to the digital storytelling format can be a challenge. It helps to choose an event or a particular situation and write about it. We tried an exercise this week called "Turning Points" -- a varia...
Digital Storytelling on iPad
June 01, 2013 02:43It shouldn't make a difference but it does. I had been providing digital storytelling workshops for several years to teachers and students before I treated myself to my first Centre for Digital Storytelling workshop in Denver three years ago this summer. I remember starting with the story circle, writing my narrative and then we were all given white MacBooks and had an hour or two instruction on a particular video editing software. We were all using the same technology to assist us in te...
Digital Storytelling - Pixie for iPad
April 23, 2013 19:52I'm always experimenting with new applications that will give me the opportunity to provide the participants in my digital storytelling sessions a chance to stitch together their stories. Tech4Learning's new iPad app., Pixie, may just be my next good find. If you are a reader of this blog you know that I favour personal narratives. There is nothing more satisfying than guiding students and adults through the process of creating their own digital stories. With Pixie for iPad the task of s...
Writing About Moments
February 17, 2013 17:20I had a special experience with the lower school teachers at Collegiate School on Friday this week. It was one of those workshops where barriers come down, trust and honesty are evident and when 30 minutes after the session ends, 80% of the participants are still enjoying the showcase and celebration of their stories. They wrote about relationships and places, triumphs and natural disasters. But mostly they wrote about moments in their lives. There's a deep sense of feeling and knowing a...
Animation Storytelling
December 08, 2012 07:56I'm conducting a month long blitz on using various forms of animation with my dozen or so classes. Part of my teaching assignment is to introduce new ways to "show what you know". And from my days 5 years ago taking photographs with a tripod and using Windows Movie Maker to try to animate the photos we have come a long way since then. I continue to find this type of storytelling interesting, innovative and a very good way to motivate students. I have collected a number of resources along...
NFB - Digital Storytelling
December 07, 2012 19:59I was encouraged to read that NFB Montreal opened a new digital playground this week offering animation workshops and digital storytelling sessions for students. Also offered are professional development workshop opportunities for teachers.
National Day of Listening - Friday November 27th
November 26, 2009 13:38 VideoAs an antidote to Black Friday, which follows the American Thanksgiving, Storycorps.org is suggesting that Friday November 27th, 2009 be a "National Day of Listening". Here are a couple of guides if you decide this event would be a worthwhile part of your life: 1. Educator's Guide 2. Community Guide And here is a more kids friendly guide on how to record stories.
Story Prompts - Going Deeper
November 14, 2009 11:36One the most satisfying segments at yesterday's full day digital storytelling session, was during our initial sharing time. Joe Lambert calls it a writing prompt. He has had success with it so I thought I'd try it. What happened was just short of amazing. 7 people shared personal, heartfelt moments in their lives. You see, digital storytelling is all about going deeper. When we engage in a story circle with thoughts and moments from our lives that are decisive. When we talk about our maj...
Delicious and Twitter - digitalstoryca
November 08, 2009 14:34Digitalstory.ca is now using the social networking sites Delicious and Twitter. I've used Delicious tagging to assist in finding a resource you may be looking for. Hopefully, your search time will be minimized. I've tagged with the following headings: Books, Exemplars, Guides, Readings, Rubrics, Storyboards and Websites.
Digital Storytelling - Bibliography
October 21, 2009 13:19Here's a short list of books about story and digital storytelling. This list contains books I have read. I'm sure there are many more. Also, the books here are mostly about writing personal, compelling, nonfiction narratives. I've added suggested chapters beneath each title which, in my humble opinion, are the gems of each book. One book I'd like to add is Joe Lambert's book. The third edition is almost ready to be published. I'll update this list when it arrives. If you have any boo...
Digital Storytelling - 2nd and 3rd Grade
September 23, 2009 11:35Last week I conducted a digital storytelling afternoon session with three teachers. The session came about as a result of school learning team meetings back in June where "a sequence of photos that tells a story" was identified as the writing topic. You'll see the description of the writing task in this framework listed under the Media/Graphical heading. The category is Electronic. Here are the steps we followed during our afternoon session. 1. I provided a laptop and a headset [microphon...
Minds on Media - Digital Storytelling Day
September 11, 2009 17:30Mark your calendars Ontario Teachers. Wednesday November 11th, 2009 As a part of this fall's 3 day Educational Computing Organization of Ontario conference, a special day of Digital Storytelling and Multimedia Presentations has been arranged by Peter Skillen. This BYOL (Bring Your Own Laptop) workshop will offer "a variety of learning centres focusing on planning, production, post-production, and exhibition of final media works to audiences - local or global" The day will be in bricolag...
Digital Stories - Marco Style
August 03, 2009 12:27Once again Marco Torres and his Alas Media crew has introduced teachers to the use of storytelling, visuals and personal narrative during a two day pre-conference session at Building Learning Communites 2009 in Boston last month. What I like about Marco's brand of digital storytelling is how he has his participants select one of their passions as their topic and then write about it -- or visually display the passion with music and no words in some cases. This is not an easy task to accompli...
Search and Rescue - A Digital Speech
July 07, 2009 18:47 VideoOur local Canadian Forces Base Anniversary Celebration was this past weekend. This story is one of about 8 stories from a group of students I worked with this year in a 4th and 5th grade class. I was contacted by a teacher who thought that adding original digital stills and voiceover narration to the speeches her students were writing would add to the experience. Boy, did it ever! I had the parents of these students tell me what an exciting time their children had creating their "digital ...
Digital Storytelling at NECC 2009
July 04, 2009 11:42Digital Storytelling networking was a focus for me at NECC 2009 this year in Washington D.C. During a delightful lunch with Bernajean [that's me in the middle] in the Second Life gathering spot, we talked about how folks are looking to write and experience stories which go deeper or higher. I mentioned that in a recent ETFO ICT mini-conference the DST sessions were the ones that were filled to capacity and had wait lists. Could it be that during these challenging economic times, people are ...
Story or Storytelling?
June 23, 2009 10:09Bernajean Porter tweeted a link yesterday to an article she wrote about digital storytelling. Here's why this is not just another article to read. Let me explain. WebQuests and Digital Storytelling have been two of my interests for many years. Americans Bernie Dodge and Tom March, from San Diego State, created the WebQuest method in 1995 and Dana Atchley has been credited for starting the Digital Storytelling movement back in 1993 which was later adapted and refined by Joe Lambert in the ...
Digital Storytelling - Gr. 7 to 9 History
June 15, 2009 17:49"..they had students produce a series of digital images to visually communicate meaning and provide a narration for the video.." Source: M.D. Roblyer, 4th edition, 2006, page 298. Many of us have either read an edition of M.D. Roblyer's Integrating Educational Technology into Teaching, or purchased our own copy. Back in May of 2000 the 2nd edition of this book was my very first Amazon.com purchase. Back then, there were no mentions of digital storytelling. I am happy to note that digital ...
Story Circle - Digital Storytelling Around the World
June 08, 2009 17:10Update: I was very surprised to find my very first digital storytelling project listed in this book on page 40. It is the one run in 2006 in Belleville, Ontario. Gareth Morlais talked about this book on his blog a while back and after trying to find the least expensive price, it has arrived today. I think this may be the book I've been waiting for. As I've mentioned before, I got hooked on digital storytelling back in 2004 when I discovered the Scott County digital stories. Just a year late...
CBC Digital Archives - Primary Sources
June 05, 2009 00:51"The most powerful way to immerse students in critical thinking using digital video is to engage them in student authorship - - that is, creating video. As students compose a documentary using historical artifacts, they learn the content, develop their research and primary-source analysis skills, and even come to understand the interpretive nature of historical accounts." Quote by T.C. Hammond and J. Lee With the 65 anniversary of D Day just a couple of days away - "The sun was just comi...
Developing Digital Short Films
June 04, 2009 12:35One of my favourite reference guides in my digital storytelling library is a book by Sherri Sheridan: Developing Digital Short Films. The book is divided into 4 parts with part 1 devoted to Digital Storytelling. This section is packed with ideas, quotes, graphics, charts, notes, and suggestions. Here are a couple of quotes from page 18: The first and primary goal of a filmmaker is to evoke a series of strong emotional responses from the audience throughout the entire story. You engage the...
Telling Stories with Video
June 02, 2009 15:19I was very encouraged to see the June/July 2009 Learning & Leading with Technology magazine's Learning Connections segment. This month's segment devotes a full 10 pages to using video in the classroom. Here's the link to my favourite of the lot. Telling Stories with Video by Carl A. Young and Sara Kajder Professors Young and Kajder write about how important video is as a part of students' multimodal learning. Here's a quote from the article. "integrating visual images with written text...
Presenters on the Road
May 29, 2009 17:44Digital Storytelling Workshops - E.T.F.O. Provincial I've been accepted as an E.T.F.O. Presenter on the Road for the 2009-2010 school year. What this means is that if your school or district would like to conduct a digital storytelling workshop then all you would need to do is download and complete this workshop request form. My original proposal was to conduct day long workshops. During my conversation yesterday with E.T.F.O. provincial, there was some interest in after school sessions. H...