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Selecting a Topic

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Week 1 introduces you to the basics of digital storytelling. You will explore the fundamental elements of a good digital story and review examples used by educators across a varied curriculum. By the end of this week, you will be able to choose a topic and define the purpose of a digital story you will create for your classroom or informal learning setting. You may access the course materials for this week from the links below, or from the navigation bar on the left side of this page.

Des outils d'apprentissage et d'enseignement performants : raconter des histoires digitalement

University of Houston System

Powerful Tools for Teaching and Learning: Digital Storytelling introduces educators to digital storytelling and explores ways to use digital stories to enhance students’ learning experiences. The course is designed to be comprehensive yet fundamental. By comprehensive we mean that the course provides a solid foundation for all of the components of a digital story and illustrates these components with tutorials, example stories, and links to additional readings. The course also provides a hands-on opportunity for learners to create their own digital stories. The course is fundamental because it covers the basic process of creating a digital story starting with just a simple script and as little as one image. This course is intended for K-12 teachers in all disciplines, although it is open to anyone with an interest in digital storytelling. Course participants will use WeVideo (https://www.wevideo.com/), a free web-based video editing program, to create a digital story that could be shared both online and with students in the classroom. Teachers in the state of Texas may be eligible to receive Continuing Professional Education units if they complete the major requirements of the course.

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Enseigné par

Bernard R Robin
Associate Professor
Sara G. McNeil
Associate Professor

Transcription

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One of the most important components of the digital storytelling process

is selecting a topic for the digital story that you will be creating.

And one of the best ways to select a topic, I think, is by exploring other

digital stories that people have created on a variety of different content areas.

So if you go to our website, the Educational Uses of Digital Storytelling,

and click on the Example Stories tab at the top of the screen.

That will take you to a page that has stories listed by category.

And you'll see here that there are stories in Art, Health, History, Language Arts,

Mathematics, Music, Personal Reflection, Popular Culture, Science.

And just about every content area is represented here.

If you find a topic you like, let's just choose Mathematics.

You'll be able to scroll through and

see that there are different mathematics oriented stories on this site.

And you can scroll back and forth to see what's there.

And if you find one you like, click the View Story button.

And that will bring up a media player where you can click on the play button and

watch the story.

So here's one about stress and learning.

>> One of the most vivid memories of my primary school education

was sitting at a kitchen table late one night with my mother,

who's coaching me in long division.

It was close to midnight.

The house was dark because everyone else was asleep except the two of us.

I was only nine years old then.

My mother was getting more and more frustrated.

>> So I'm not going to play the entire story, but I encourage you to go onto our

website and watch this story and many others in their entirety.

So that you can start thinking about topics that you might use for

your own story.

I would suggest that you pay close attention to all of

the components of the stories that you watch.

Starting with the images that were used, the narration, what it says.

So you can be thinking about how you're going to write the first version of

your script.

Any music that's possibly playing in the background, and

the overall message of the story.

The important thing, I think,

is to select a topic that's personally meaningful to you.

That you think will help you to better present

information to your students and help engage them in the learning process.

So go online, watch some stories, and

think about selecting a topic that you think will take advantage

of the power of digital storytelling in your own classroom.

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