Issue # 5 Digital Storyline by Bruce Wilson

I just read this article after the fact that I just did a digital story project , but we can only improve in how we teach our students to do a digital story project. I think it makes a lot of valid points.

Education Ezine November, 2007 by John Orech
http://www.techlearning.com/story/showArticle.php?articleID=196604788


Its a great article with a lot of helpful hints. I thought it was comical that the article refers to teachers thinking that DST was Daylight savings time . Well who knew? With the popularity of video and online accessiblity stories can be told in a different medium.

There are seven elements to story telling

1. Elicit moments from the child's life. Let the child tell small moment2. When writing the story show don't tell. Have the students write using observations instead of inferences.
2. When using images its quality and not quantity Students need not make a scrapbook to tell their story.
3. Use photos from flickr . He recommends photos being larger than 640x480 pixels.
4. Use storyboarding to organize your story.
5.Use an easy video program such as Imovie for Macs an Pinnacle studio 9
6 Carefully choose the soundtrack as it can definitely determine the impact of the film.
7.. Go easy on the special effects. I like the analogy of using special effects like you add salt to food. Use it sparingly.

Finally for the author makes a good point that for a story to be a good story it must be shared with an audience.