Digital+Storytelling-Eliz.+S.


 * Digital Storytelling:** (Elizabeth Stutzman)

Digital storytelling is a computer-based way of telling stories that involves a combination of visual images, sounds, and text. The visual images can include video clips, photos, and graphics. Sounds can included recorded narration, music, and sound effects. Stories are generally told in first person, but they could also be told in third person if someone wished to recount a historical event.

Teachers can create digital stories that focus on a particular grammar tense, such as past tense verbs, prepositions, or modals.
 * Application for TESOL:**

My idea: Andrea Brigitha:Students could create this themselves! What if we had students use past tense and tell about a historical event. Students could get creative my changing their tone, adding graphics and text, all while focusing on past tense.

Comment: Sherita Blasen Do you need a video/web cam? I would love to see this in action but am wondering how accessible this technology is for teachers. I am thinking that over time you would be able to gather a nice amount of your own "language videos". Students could have a lot of fun using this technology to practice communicative skills set in a particular setting - greetings in church, in a school with different ages, etc.

My idea: Erica Spohr The great thing about an activity like this is that it is multi-modal. Students can listen, read, speak, and create in several stages of using or producing this media. This can also be an extension of a more traditional activity such as a sequencing exercise or a circle story. You start the story and each student can add a sentence (writing exercise), then the whole class can participate together to record the story and add images. Or you can start with images and groups can add narration--everyone will have a different version of the story.

My idea: Cheryl Prindle The teacher could create a digital story with missing elements or characters which the students each add in - to customize the story. The teacher could create a story and change one aspect having the students create new endings based on the new plot twist.

My idea: Elaine Van Regenmorter I would ask my students to think of their dreams for the future and create a story, narrated of course in English, accompanied by their favorite kind of music in the background (dreamy music, such as the impressionist Debussey would work well for me :^). They would choose the visual character that best describes who they are and tell the character's story from childhood until the time when they achieve their goal. It could be graduation from a university, a wedding, travel abroad, giving a noted lecture before the U.N. etc.

My idea (Rachel Line): It would be cool to have advanced students create stories which teach or show a particular language topic, and then have lower level students watch the videos to learn the concepts, for tutoring help if they didn't understand something in class, or for review before a test.