storytelling creed

I believe that imagination is stronger than knowledge,

That myth is more potent than history,That dreams are more powerful than facts,

That hope always triumphs over experience,That laughter is the only cure for grief,

And I believe that love is stronger than death. -Robert Fulghum

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Digital storytelling is a form of narrative expression that is crafted into a media production.

Digital storytelling integrates meaningful stories with media.

Long before there was formal Long before there was formal schooling grandparents and parents schooling grandparents and parents told the stories that provided children told the stories that provided children with the knowledge base they needed with the knowledge base they needed to survive as adults. With the to survive as adults. With the introduction of the printing press and introduction of the printing press and the the development of formal the the development of formal schools the role of storytelling in schools the role of storytelling in education was diminished. Yet, we education was diminished. Yet, we still know how a powerful story can still know how a powerful story can capture out attention, fire our capture out attention, fire our imagination, and make clear an ideaimagination, and make clear an idea..

Long before there was formal Long before there was formal schooling grandparents and parents schooling grandparents and parents told the stories that provided children told the stories that provided children with the knowledge base they needed with the knowledge base they needed to survive as adults. With the to survive as adults. With the introduction of the printing press and introduction of the printing press and the the development of formal the the development of formal schools the role of storytelling in schools the role of storytelling in education was diminished. Yet, we education was diminished. Yet, we still know how a powerful story can still know how a powerful story can capture out attention, fire our capture out attention, fire our imagination, and make clear an ideaimagination, and make clear an idea..

http://www.teachingteachers.com/story.htm

Purpose:

To use your talents to tell stories of your own.

Purpose:

To learn to tell your stories using words, visuals, and multi-media.

Purpose:Purpose:

To develop To develop your own your own unique voice unique voice drawing from drawing from your talents your talents and interests.and interests.

Purpose:

To learn story writing techniques: story elements, editing, revision, sequencing, character development.

Purpose:To learn computer skills and online

technologies to

increase the power of your

story.

Purpose:

To publish your work on the Internet for viewing by others.

Purpose:

To learn how to write collaboratively with a group.

It takes a thousand voices to tell a single story.

Native American saying

Because there is a Because there is a natural storytelling urge natural storytelling urge and ability in all human and ability in all human beings, even just a little beings, even just a little nurturing of this impulse nurturing of this impulse can bring about can bring about astonishing and astonishing and delightful results.delightful results.

Nancy Mellon, The Art of Storytelling

Point of View

http://www.storycenter.org/memvoice/pages/cookbook.html

A Dramatic Question

http://www.storycenter.org/memvoice/pages/cookbook.html

Emotional Content

http://www.storycenter.org/memvoice/pages/cookbook.html

The Gift of Your Voicehttp://www.storycenter.org/memvoice/pages/cookbook.html

The Power

of Sound

http://www.storycenter.org/memvoice/pages/cookbook.html

Economy

http://www.storycenter.org/memvoice/pages/cookbook.html

Pacinghttp://www.storycenter.org/memvoice/pages/cookbook.html

We want a story that starts out with an earthquake and works its way up to a climax.

Samuel Goldwyn

Writing a story or a novel is one way of discovering sequence in experience, of stumbling upon cause and effect in the happenings of a writer's own life.

-Eudora Welty

Write!BeginningExciting EventRising ActionClimaxFalling ActionEnding

From:http://ywp.nanowrimo.org/workbooks

3-D Setting

Pico Crickets

Storyboarding

http://www.tikatok.com/

Writing the

Script

• Aaron Shepard’s Tips on Scripting

• Aaron Shepard’s Sample Scripts

Writing & Recording a Theme SongMicrosoft SongsmithThe Three Islanders Theme Song

Discovering Digital Stories

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3yU8zE5LBBY

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_srQzAr_KXY

When a digital story is finished it should be remembered for its soul, not the bells and whistles of the technology tools.

Bernajean Porter

Example Digital Stories

http://www.dtc.scott.k12.ky.us/technology/digitalstorytelling/studentstories.html

http://www.digitales.us/gallery/gallery_living_memories.php

Storytelling is the most powerful way to put ideas into the world today.

Robert McAfee Brown