directions


 * The following was created based on an outline from** [|**Educational Uses of Storytelling**]


 * Your Digital Story should have the** **following qualities**

Three Days PART ONE: Define, Collect, Decide**
 * A Step-By-Step Approach to Creating a Digital Story from Materials Found On the Web
 * 1) Select a topic from the ones on the board for your digital story. **X**
 * 2) Create a page on your wiki where you can store the materials you find. **X**
 * 3) Research your topic (Check out iTunes "American History Before 1870" podcast) and when you can retell your event in a "[|story]" go to #3 **X -camear024 10/27/07**
 * 4) Begin thinking of the purpose of your story. Are you trying to inform, convince, provoke, question? **X**
 * 5) Place a storyboard for your movie on your wiki page. You will have five images on your story board. **X**
 * 6) Decide on the purpose and point of view of your digital story and write it on the top of your storyboard
 * 7) Fill in the topic of each slide and the point you are making **X**
 * 8) Search for image resources for your story, including: pictures, drawings, photographs, maps, charts, etc. Save these resources on your wiki . **X**
 * 9) Try to locate audio resources such as music, speeches, interviews, and sound effects, music from the time period.
 * 10) Save all you resources and sources used on your wiki page. **X**

PART TWO: Select, Import, Create**
 * One Day
 * 1) Select the images you would like to use for your digital story.
 * 2) Select the audio you would like to use for your digital story.
 * 3) Select the content and text you would like to use for your digital story.
 * 4) Import images onto Storyboard.
 * 5) Modify the number of images and/or image order, if necessary.

PART THREE: Decide, Write, Record, Finalize**
 * Four Days
 * 1) [|Write a script] that will be used as narration in your digital story AND provides the purpose and point of view you have chosen.
 * 2) Create a Dramatic Question for the beginning of your story
 * 3) Write the lines in the left column that will be read for each image
 * 4) Record the narration of your script.
 * 5) Import the narration into movie maker.
 * 6) Finalize your digital story by saving it into your folder, and then copy it to studnet send---> Bogush Folder--> Digital Stories


 * PART FOUR: Demonstrate, Evaluate, Replicate**
 * 1) Show your digital story to the class.
 * 2) Place your story onto www.teachertube.com Get the imbed code and place on your blog.
 * 3) Write a post about your first movie making experience.
 * 4) Congratulate yourself for a job well done!

Ok...so what is the [|direct connection] between story telling and being successful in the 21st Century business world

http://www.coe.uh.edu/digital-storytelling/

http://blogs.writingproject.org/blogwrite64/stories/storyReader$226