Syllabus
Course
Reading
Digital
Storytelling Cookbook
jasonOhler.com
Part
:1 Storytelling, literacy and learning
Part
2: The Art of Storytelling
Part
3: Technology, techniques, resources
Part
4: Assessing digital stories and new media narrative projects
January
8
Please Read
Education,
Technology and the Human Spirit
Please Reflect
& Complete in Journal on USB
Fundamental
Questions Worksheet
Partner Discussions
Resources
Project-Based
Learning Conceptual Framework
Compassionate
Pioneering
January
15
Reading
Digital
Storytelling Cookbook - Chapters 1 & 2
Ohler
Parts 1 and 2 (watch the 4 example videos: Good Dad, Ball
Roll, School Train, and Hannah Davis)
Journal
Questions
about storytelling in the classroom for teachers in Ohler
Part 1
Begin
a list of ideas for stories (prompts Ch 3 of Cookbook
p21-24)
Begin
to gather media (photos, drawings, music, etc.) for story
Print
& Save to USB (end of Ohler Part 1)
~
Visual Portrait of a Story
~ Storytelling Rubric
~ Digital storytelling storyboard template
Preview
Story
Creator
January
22
Reading
Digital
Storytelling Cookbook - Chapters 3 &4
Ohler
Parts 3 (skim) and 4
Journal
Using Ohler's story components or the Cookbook's 7 elements,
begin mapping/outlining stories from your list - Concepts
Listed on Story Components PowerPoint on Resources page under
Writing
To help you:
What problem
or central challenge are you thinking of writing about?
What is your
reason for wanting to tell this story? (the Point)
What is the conflict
between the main character’s desires being met and
the desires of others?
What is the metaphor
that captures your story?
Draft the following
for one of your ideas
- Beginning (call
to adventure)
- Problem (tension)
- Change (conflict,
transformation)
- Solution (resolution)
- End (closure,
learning)
Develop (Story
Map or Storyboard) a short story for class
Continue developing
list of ideas for stories (prompts Ch 3 of Cookbook p21-24)
Continue
gathering story media
List
thoughts on class project rubric
Create
Short
Story with Story
Creator
January 29
Vision
of Today's Students - Digital Story - Kansas St University
Spring 2007
Digital
Ethnography - Kansas St University
Photo
Story 3 for Windows
Journal
Continue mapping/outlining
stories from your list
Continue developing
list of ideas for stories (prompts Ch 3 of Cookbook p21-24)
Map short story
for class
Bring
photos/images for first short story
List
thoughts on class project rubric
Create
Short
Story with Photo Story
Co-Develop
Class
Story Project Rubric
February
5
Debra is out
of town at NSF Meeting
Listen to Anne
Lamott (author of bird
by bird) On being a writer and On getting your writing
done - 4 minutes
View Dan
Pink Video (author of A
Whole New Mind) - 34 minutes
View Don
Tapscott Video (author of Growing
Up Digital) - 50 minutes (education is addressed in
last 10 minutes, but whole video is very interesting...to
me)
Journal
Reflect
on Lamott, Pink and Tapscott
Work
on Final Story Script & Storyboard & media gathering
February
12
Story
Development Lab
- Peer Pitching
(use Iglesias Log Line model)
- Peer Critiquing
(use What if...)
- Inputting
media (photographs, music, titles-CG, voice-over, etc)
in Photo Story
Journal
Work on Final
Story Script & Storyboard
February
19
Story
Development Lab
Journal
Work
on Final Story Script & Storyboard
February
26
Story
Development Lab
Journal
Final Reflection
- What have
you learned and how will it impact you and/or your work?
- Self-assessment
of Final Story
March
4
Class
Presentations of Stories
Journals
Due via email by 6pm
Course
Assessments
- Class
Participation - 20%
- Reflective
Journal - 40%
- Lamott,
Pink and Tapscott Reflection
- What have
you learned and how will it impact you and/or your work?
- Self-assessment
of Final Story
- Digital
Story/Presentation - 40%
- Presentation
Process
- Presentation
of Story
- Presentation
of Project Planning Document(s), Self Reflection,
Discoveries, Accomplishments, and Pushing the Envelope
- Colleagues
email feedback to Presenter
Project
Rubric Developed by Class
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