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“Stories are the large and small instruments of meaning, of explanation, that we store in our memories.”
Joe Lambert / Roger Schank
“Tell me a factand I’ll learn.Tell me a truth and I’ll believe.Tell me a story and I’ll remember forever.”
Saying
Digital Story-Making:Understanding the Learner's Perspective
Gail Matthews-DeNatale, Ph.D.Associate Director, Academic Technology
Simmons CollegeBoston, MA
Copyright Simmons College, 2008
Story-MakerPerspectives
Rachel FranchiSophomore
Vaughn RogersSophomore
Ellen GoodmanSSW Field Education Faculty
Presentation Overview
1. How are we using digital storiesat Simmons?
2. What can story-makers tell us about what it feels like to make a story? What do we learn from listening to learners?
3. Exercise: Put yourself in the learner’s shoes
4. Based on faculty/learner feedback, what’s the educational value of digital stories?
Part I
How are we using digital stories at Simmons College?
Storytelling 2.0 at Simmons
Introductory Assignment: Boston Story Map
Storytelling 2.0 at Simmons
Culminating Assignment: Family Map
• “Digital Stories” in the CDS Sense of the Term
•Faculty Institute on Digital Storytelling
•Digital Stories of Service Learning
•Digital Cases SOM, Corporate Social Responsibility
Digital Storytelling at Simmons
Faculty-Produced Digital Story
Reflection on an Unresolved Life Experience
“Never before have I been so into doing a final project – I found myself putting other things aside so I could work on it.”
“The feeling of accomplishment is much greater than just writing a paper and it was such a different kind of assignment, it was fun to work on.”
Feedback from Students – SOM Grads
Take two minutes to reflect on a time when you really got into something (in school or on your own).
Jot down a few sentences about the experience – you’ll use this during an activity later in the session.
What About You?
Powerful Learning Experience• Deeply engaging• Deepened your understanding• Memorable
Must be a specific experience
What About You?
What can story-makers tell us about what it feels like to make a story? What do we learn from listening to learners?
Part II
“[Students] cannot learn in a deep way if they have no opportunities to practice what they are learning … they cannot learn deeply only by being told things outside the context of embodied action.” James Paul Gee
Embodied Learning
Digital Storytelling and Writing
Flow, Senses, Represent Internal/External
Doing and reflecting
36 Learning Principles – James Gee
Appreciating good design
Seeing interrelationships
Mastering new skills at each level
Being encouraged to practice
Tasks neither too easy nor too hard
Thinking and strategizing
Watching your own behavior
Getting more out than what you put in
Play (experiment and problem-solve)
New Media Literacies – Henry Jenkins
Judgment (assess credibility & reliability)
Distributed Cognition
Performance (improvisation &
discovery)
Simulate (model real-world processes)
Multitask (shift focus as needed)
Appropriate (sample & remix)
Collective Intelligence (pool & compare)
Network (search, synthesize, disseminate)
Negotiate (discern & respect perspectives)
Transmedia Navigate(flow of ideas across media)
If life is like a box of chocolates
Digital Storytelling is like three dimensional tic-tac-toe
Digital Storytelling as 3D Tic Tac Toe
timesound
image
• Turn to your neighbor, swap stories, pick one to work with
• Using the blank storyboard, consider how you could use sounds (words in particular), images, and timing to begin to tell a story of “powerful learning.”
Experiment with 3D Authorship
Storyboard (multimodal timeline)
Insert or Sketch Image Insert or Sketch Image Insert or Sketch Image
Accompanying Audio/Words
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Accompanying Audio/Words
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Accompanying Audio/Words
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Other(e.g. Duration, Transitions, Music)
Other(e.g. Duration, Transitions, Music)
Other(e.g. Duration, Transitions, Music)
Thoughts? Experiences? Challenges? Insights?
Anybody care to share?
From the teacher’s perspective, how the heck do you design, implement, and assess it?
Debrief
A Word on the Value of Rubrics
Storyboard/Script FeedbackCriteria
Outstanding Satisfactory Poor Why?
Has A Point (of View)- purpose- stance
Engaging- interesting- surprising- thought-provoking
Quality Script/Voice- well spoken- good pacing- music, if any, furthers message
Use of Images/Video- w. voice, adds new dimension- visual flow
Wise Economy/Detail- pacing- pare away AND- dig deeper
Based on faculty/learner feedback, What’s the value of (digital) storytelling for higher education?
Part IV
Challenging Questions for Educators
How can we help students increase the amount of time they devote to reflection and critical thinking?
How can we help students articulate what they are learning?
How can we help students remember and care about learning?
The Value of Digital Storytelling
Memorable, Reflective, Transformative …
Story-Making Learning Cycle
Reflection& Analysis
Share withOthers
Experience
Deeper PersonalUnderstanding
FutureStories
•Embodied: Combines visual, aural, and kinesthetic processes
•Iterative: Production process encourages revisiting, reflecting on meaning
•Multimodal: Enhances fluency across a range of media
•Integrative: Connects prior experience, course, and other co-curricular learning
•Authentic: Keep/share with others
The Value of Digital Story-Making
“Those who do not have power over the story that dominates their lives, the power to retell it, rethink it, deconstruct it, joke about it, and change it as times change, truly are powerless, because they cannot think new thoughts. ”
Salman Rushdie
Final Words
Final Thoughts
Using ALL of Our Brains