Hands on! Explore Tech and Nature Together!

Digital Storytelling Outdoors

Susan WellsFounder, TechTerra Education

Why spend time outdoors?

Impact of getting outdoors

Benefits to cognitive behavior School Performance improves Critical Thinking increases Attentional Difficulties decrease Positive Social Interactions increase

Why digital storytelling?

Digital storytelling is Using computer-based tools to tell a story Combining the art of telling a story with

graphics, audio, video, music, text, and Web-based publishing tools

Not too long, averaging 2-4 minutes Personal Informative Used with students from PreK through

graduate school Used with every grade and every content

area

Digital storytelling steps

Steps of digital storytelling include

Think Research Plan Storyboard Gather media

images, audio, video

Create Edit Finish Share Reflect

Digital storytelling tools WeVideo

Story Creator

Shadow Puppet

ThinkLink

So many more… iMovie Toontastic Explain Everything Pic Collage Sock Puppets

“I know only one thing about the technologies that await us in the future: We will find ways to tell stories with them” Jason Ohler

Thank you for being here!

Susan WellsISTE Mobile Learning Network PresidentFounder TechTerra Educationwww.TechTerraEducation.com@wellssusan@techterraedtechterraeducation@gmail.com

Resources and ResearchWells, N.M. (2000). At Home with Nature: Effects of “greenness” on children’s cognitive functioning. Environment and Behavior (32), 6, pp 775-795. http://eab.sagepub.com/cgi/content/abstract/32/6/775

https://www.childrenandnature.org/research/

https://www.techterraeducation.com

Kuo, PhD, Frances E., and Andrea Faber Taylor, PhD. "A Potential Natural Treatment for Attention- Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder: Evidence From a National Study." American Journal of Public Health 94.9. Sept. 2004.

http://www.storycenter.org/