In 8 Steps to Great Digital Storytelling, Samantha Morra provides a great overview of the digital storytelling process, as shown in the following graphic.
Select a story prompt or use one of your lesson/unit ideas:
Digital Storytelling Lesson from Digitizing the Writing Workshop
The lesson plan is suitable for students in grades 4-10.
https://sites.google.com/site/digitizeww/digital-storytelling-lesson
Students work in groups of 4 to write a collaborative story. Each student chooses a picture or visual image for their story prompt and begin to compose their story on a computer. The amount of time spent writing will depend on the grade level. After the allowed time, each person in the group will rotate to the next person's computer to build upon their story. Once students have contributed to every group member's story once they will return to their original computer. Students then finish their story by adding additional images and text. They will then use Microsoft Photostory 3 to create a digital story.
Many educators, such as Barrett (2006), Ohler (2008), and Teehan (2007-08), have developed rubrics that educators can use to assess digital stories created by students. These rubrics include categories related to the overall quality of the story such as “How well did the story work?” (Ohler, 2008), categories related to image quality such as “Did the images create an atmosphere or tone?” (Teehan, 2007-08) and categories related to audio quality such “Is the voice quality clear and consistently audible throughout the presentation?” (Barrett, 2006).
In a 2012 paper, McNeil and Robin propose an evaluation framework for digital storytelling that has three main categories: evaluation during the design process, evaluation during the development process, and evaluation after the project is completed. Each of these categories is divided into self- evaluation by the creator or group of creators if the project is team-based, peer-evaluation by other students, and educational evaluation by the teacher.
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