Storytellingin the 

Digital Era4th Virtual Round Table

Janet Bianchini26th March 2011

Stories told around the fire for entertainment

Stories passed down from generation to generation, from family to family

Stories as a way of passing on morals, eg Aesops fablesStories

from the Bible read in church

Stories from the wars eg The Aeneid

Storytelling has changed dramatically with the advent of new technologies.  

 

S-ocial media T-ools O-pen ended R-eflections Y-ouTube

T-witter   (140 character limit)

E-xciting collaboration L-inear to non-linear tales L-inked media I-mages from the Internet

N-arratives from blogs G-logsters (interactive posters)

Collaborative Storytelling

Examples of collaborative storytelling which involved open-ended projects with 3 different bloggers. Why did I join in? • to experience the thrill of working with my PLN• to see where the stories would end• to use my imagination• to see how it would feel for students doing similar projects• to do something completely new and different online• to challenge myself• to have lots of fun!!

Collaborative writing viahttp://lifefeast.blogspot.com/2010/09/typewithme-live-text-document.html

http://typewith.me/

http://annehodgson.de/2010/03/12/expanding-alice/

Alice was crying in the Wonderland Bayside Bar, lonely and confused, thoroughly through with waiting for her horse, The Gelding Formerly Known As Prince, named after his mother, Black Princess. It was dark rum she ordered, and she thought to herself: “Enough!” “On the rocks” by the Heebee Geebees was playing on the ancient juke box and she felt like dancing. The music played softly, the lights were low, the eyes of the

musicians shone like stars and he appeared, large as life – tall, dark and devilishly almost impossibly handsome – “what about it”? he said … She looked toward the jukebox, then

smiled wryly. “Just my style,” Alice replied. – Of course, “it” was the murdered corpse of the Mad Hatter.

 Left by Janet Bianchini on March 13th, 2010

Collaborative improvised story from Bits'n'Bobs blog challenge September 2009  reproduced with kind permission :) 

 Joe's eyes shifted uneasily at the sight of the object sliding towards him. He began to get a bit hot under the collar. He hadn't liked being summoned to this board meeting at such short notice and was feeling very uncomfortable. He avoided looking directly at the cold and heartless Vanessa. He pondered on how things could have turned out differently if he hadn't....

Vanessa stood up and began to talk. http://bitsnbobsshowntell.blogspot.com/2009/09/improv-challenge-day-seven.html

My Colour Story 

EVO Digital Storytelling 2011

Flickr Image source:http://www.flickr.com/photos/24961345@N00/2131851672/

Image source: http://www.thevisorshop.com/acatalog/red_overallsrear.jpg

Once upon a time, there was a village in the middle of the countryside where everybody wore red clothes. The T-shirts were red, the trousers were red, the dresses were red, even the men's overalls were red.

One day, Karl was in the barn in his workshop fixing the exhaust on his Aprilia Caponord motorbike when suddenly some oil from the engine spilled onto his beautiful red overalls. He gasped in horror as the thick black oil began to spread slowly but surely all over his favourite overalls. A red mist enveloped his entire being.

To dampen his dark mood he decided to take a walk. It was fast approaching the hour of sunset. He gazed up into the spectacular sky and thought to himself, "Tomorrow is another day. It isn't the end of the world. I'll buy myself a brand new pair of red overalls!"

EVO Digital Storytelling:

6 Word Stories  

Feel happinessshine throughyour soul

A new world of inspirational change.

Become an e-author using digital tools!

http://www.pimpampum.net/bookr/?id=22295

Janet's Abruzzo Edublog:

 An evolving

Idiomatic Digital Story in progress

This is where the digital story began in a small and famous village in Abruzzo.....

An Idiomatic Story - Part 2: The Return of the Lost Soul  As he approached the bar in the tiny Abruzzo village, he paused for a moment and savoured the smells of cooking wafting across the terracotta rooftops. He was so hungry he could eat a horse, or a chicken or two.

www.writecomics.com

• Which 3 things were on his mind? • How had he got himself into this

pickle?• What was going to happen to him

next?

List of  Resources and Websites:http://evosessions.pbworks.com/w/page/33494090/Digital-Storytelling-201150+ Tools to Tell a Story by Alan Levinehttp://www.slideshare.net/profesorbaker/looking-for-catarinahttp://www.teachingvillage.org/2011/03/03/six-word-stories/http://lifefeast.blogspot.com/2010/09/typewithme-live-text-document.htmlhttp://annehodgson.de/2010/03/12/expanding-alice/http://bitsnbobsshowntell.blogspot.com/2009/09/improv-challenge-day-seven.htmlhttp://www.cybraryman.com/digitalstory.html  http://www.freetech4teachers.com/2011/03/11-good-digital-storytelling-resources.html  

      

List of Digital Tools:   http://www.thestorystarter.com http://www.pimpampum.net/bookr/?id=22

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http://www.maxmydream.com/http://www.bitstrips.com/create/comic/http://writecomics.com/http://www.photofunia.com/

http://imagechef.com   http://www.tuxpi.comhttp://www.flickr.com/creativecommons/

 Thank you for attending my

presentation!

Janet's Abruzzo Edubloghttp://civitaquana.blogspot.com

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