African+American+Month+Digital+Stories


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


 * You will have six days to create a digital story using [|Prezi] ([|tips]) or Movie Maker.**


 * Your Digital Story should have the following qualities,**
 * and will be scored with the following rubric by your audience ( content scored separately)

A Step-By-Step Approach to Creating a Digital Story from Materials Found On the Web**

PART ONE: Define, Collect, Decide**
 * //__Monday and Tuesday__//
 * 1) Select a topic for your digital story.
 * 2) Create a page on your "All my Work Page" where you can store the materials you find.
 * 3) Research your topic and when you can retell your event in a "[|story]" go to #4
 * 4) Begin thinking of the purpose of your story. Are you trying to inform, convince, provoke, question?
 * 5) Place a storyboard for your movie on your wiki page. You will have ten images on your story board.
 * 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
 * 8) Search for image resources for your story, including: pictures, drawings, photographs, maps, charts, etc. Save these resources on your wiki.
 * 9) Try to locate audio resources such as music, speeches, interviews, and sound effects, music from the time period.
 * 10) Save all your resources and sources used on your wiki page.

PART TWO: Select, Import, Create**
 * //__Wednesday and Thursday__//
 * 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**
 * //__Friday and Monday__//
 * 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 your story board 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 student send---> Bogush Folder--> Digital Stories


 * //__Tuesday and Wednesday__//**
 * PART FOUR: Demonstrate, Evaluate, Replicate**
 * 1) Show your digital story to the class.
 * 2) Place your story onto www.schooltube.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

http://www.edmestoncentralschool.net/uploads/jchase/musicvideotoo.htm