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This topic in one word: VOICE (individual identity, reflection, meaning making, and new literacy).
Why digital stories in ePortfolios?
- Reflection is the heart and soul of a portfolio
- Digital stories can humanize any model of ePortfolio
Plugs The World is Flat by Thomas Friedman.
“How we educate our children may prove to be more important than how much.”
Plugs A Whole New Mind by Daniel Pink.
Balancing right brain skills for conceptual age with the left brain skills for the information age.
6 Essential High-Concept, High Touch Aptitudes
- Design - create objects
- Story - ability to fashion a compelling narrative
- Symphony - synthesis
- Empathy - forge relationships
- Play - laughter clubs
- Meaning - pulling it all together
Experiential Learning Model - Practice and Metacognition as a continuous cycle.
Storytelling as a theory of learning.
Learner ownership and Control of Electronic Portfolio Development.
Digital storytelling process:
Learners create a 1-4 minute story (digital video clip, first person narrative, illustrated by still images, music track to add tone).
Purposes of Storytelling
- Voice & Personality - Enhanced Audio of Granddaughter Victoria (so much energy!)
- Legacy - My Sister Sarah (tell story about her newborn sisters’ fight with cancer)
- Biography - Victoria reads her autobiography.
- Memoir - focuses on the memories of the storyteller, often much longer than a typical story.
- Reflection-Transition - Young man explains why he became a teacher to one of his elementary school teacher.
- Reflection-Decision - Use a digital story to weigh the options in a decision to be made, document the process used to make decisions.
- Benchmarking Development - A digital story as a snapshot throughout the development of a learner (example had a series of digital stories, twice a year from kindergarten to senior year in high school).
- Change Over Time - Maintain a collection of work over time to help recognize when growth has occurred. Victoria talks about how much she has grown since kindergarten now that she is in 1st grade.
- Evidence of Collaboration - provide explanation of the process of a group’s collaborative process on a project.
- Documentary - Take the place of a PowerPoint or research paper. Story takes on the characteristics of a documentary, often fact-based without emotional content.
- Record of Experience - Experience doesn’t always yield a discrete artifact. A digital story can reflect and document and experience and be presented as final evidence of an experience. Documenting a rural Alaska experience.
- Oral Language - Learning to speak in a second language. Learners record their voice, speaking or reading aloud at different stages in their development.
- Rich Digital Artifacts - Showcase student work with an explanatory narrative. Replacement for written narrative because some students have trouble reflecting textually.
Voice = Authenticity, digital storytelling brings out that voice.
Process to develop digital stories:
- Script development, sometimes in groups called story circles.
- Record the author reading the story (audio recording/editing)
- Capture and process the images
- Recods/edit the video.
- Present/share the digital story.
Online tools for video editing:
- BubbleShare
- PrimaryAccess
- JumpCut
- EyeSpot
- PhotoBucket
Online tools for audio editing:
- Odeo
- Podomatic
Link to session page here.
