But in this post I am going to elaborate on the most common view of Digital Storytelling. Let’s start off with a video called ‘What is Digital Storytelling?’.
A widely recognised definition of Digital Storytelling
I like this definition “The art of combining storytelling with a combination of digital graphics, text, recorded audio narration, video and music, to communicate information about a specific theme or topic”. Did you know that Digital Storytelling is a term NOT just for stories as such. Some learning theorists believe that as a pedagogical technique, storytelling can be effectively applied to nearly any subject. The targeted audience for the Digital Storytelling product plays an important vital role in determining how the story constructed and which digital elements are included.
An infographic that says it all
This infographic is made with a free webtool called Thinglink.
This Thinglink example above was created by Tonia at this URL:
http://www.thinglink.com/scene/382359211410980864. Notice how Thinglink brings the image to life.
Digital storytelling and the African Storybook Project
But you’ll notice that in our course we will be creating stories for the African Storybook website that don’t have narration, music or video. Nevertheless they will still fall into the bracket of ‘Digital Storytelling’. (In the last week of the course we will investigate how to add sound, narration and video to the stories we have created).
Examples of digital storytelling
1. Be more dog
This is one of my favourite digital stories. It contains a good message
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iMzgl0nFj3s
2. Handa’s hen
This is lovely children’s story complete with video, music and narration – but no words.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-9FZqX1CBqE
3. Adventures of a supercow
A story from the African Storybook website called ‘The adventures of a supercow'. I used a free tool, Screencastomatic.com, to video this story.
http://africanstorybook.org/book/read/1239#
So, for the purposes of this course we will be following the style of Number 3 above since we are directing our work at the African Storybook website. HOWEVER in Week 5 we'll work on taking our stories further to add video, audio and narration.
Further Resources
A Handy Interactive on the Digital Storytelling Process
Digital Storytelling Resources
Educational Uses of Digital Storytelling
Digital Storytelling links
Just Fantastic! Thank you for this clear content.
ReplyDeleteThank you, so that is basically what we would be doing, I see
ReplyDeleteHi ..the story about the super cow was not shown completely on my I-pad.. The rest of the videos came through fine. Is there a problem with the setting
ReplyDeleteHi Andrea, have you downloaded the YouTube app? I'll try it out on my iPad and see what happens.
DeleteHi, i couldn`t play the the story of the supercow but hey! the others are wonderful i should say. Thank you.
ReplyDeleteOh gosh! I wonder what device you are using? I'll try it out on my various devices. Thanks for letting me know - and don't forget to add your name!
DeleteThe examples of digital storytelling were good and I was able to play all of them on my PC. Good work. Beatrice Murila
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ReplyDeleteHave browsed through. The mode of story-telling in each was different but I was in awe at the use of media. If this is what the aim of this course is then "yeah"...I am in!
thanks for the examples. It gives me a good idea of where this could go. However the third story of the Super Cow had some words cut off when I watched it. I did get the idea though.
ReplyDeleteThanks for the examples. It is now clear to me the type of product we will be creating for the African Storybook Project
ReplyDeleteThese are good examples of what we can expect to create and we don't have to go that extravagant, only plain and simple :) Marina
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