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Powerful Tools for Teaching and Learning: Digital Storytelling

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University of Houston System

Powerful Tools for Teaching and Learning: Digital Storytelling

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Powerful Tools for Teaching and Learning: Digital Storytelling introduces educators to digital storytelling and explores ways to use digital stories to enhance students’ learning experiences. The course is designed to be comprehensive yet fundamental. By comprehensive we mean that the course provides a solid foundation for all of the components of a digital story and illustrates these components with tutorials, example stories, and links to additional readings. The course also provides a hands-on opportunity for learners to create their own digital stories. The course is fundamental because it covers the basic process of creating a digital story starting with just a simple script and as little as one image. This course is intended for K-12 teachers in all disciplines, although it is open to anyone with an interest in digital storytelling. Course participants will use WeVideo (https://www.wevideo.com/), a free web-based video editing program, to create a digital story that could be shared both online and with students in the classroom. Teachers in the state of Texas may be eligible to receive Continuing Professional Education units if they complete the major requirements of the course.

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WEEK 2: Writing an Effective Script and Creating a Storyboard

In Week 2, we will focus on scriptwriting, storyboarding, and Creative Commons. We will begin by discussing the steps in developing and writing a script for the digital story you will create in this course.We will explore the basic elements of the script,such as introduction, character development, tension and resolution that are necessary in developing a script. Then, we will also examine the importance of selecting appropriate images and creating a storyboard. In Week 2, you will learn not only the functions and the sequences of a storyboard, but also the most useful ways to locate images, such as using photos taken with a digital camera and images downloaded from the internet based on the size, quality, type and usage rights. A step-by-step approach will be used to illustrate how these images can support your own script as a part of creating a digital story. By the end of this week, you will begin to understand the important steps and elements of scriptwriting, and be able to envision your story's script in a visually interesting storyboard.

Week 2 Overview3:09

Getting Started with Scriptwriting5:07

Creating a Storyboard4:46

Creative Commons3:32

Images and Copyright8:04

Using High Resolution Images6:03

Creating a Storyboard with StoryboardThat3:43

12 lessons learned part 18:01

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Bernard R Robin
Associate Professor
Curriculum and Instruction
Sara G. McNeil
Associate Professor
Curriculum and Instruction

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Storyboards are a key component of the storytelling process.

And in this section we'll try to answer some of the basic questions about

storyboards, including what they are,

why they're important, what are the key elements, how they may be created.

And also at the end we'll provide some tips on creating an effective storyboard.

So what is a storyboard?

Well basically a story board is a written or

graphical overview of all of the elements that you plan to

include in the digital story that you are going to create.

A story board serves as a blue print or an advanced organizer

that will help you as you being to construct your digital story.

The reason it's important is because storyboards allow you to

visualize what your story's going to look like in advance.

There, you can determine the timing and the sequence of all of the elements of

the digital story, such as the script, the images, other media, music, etc.

Probably the most important thing to understand is that storyboards allow

you to make changes while you're in the development process before

you actually set down at the computer to put your digital story together.

And this is really helpful, because having this advanced,

organized overview of your digital story will help you see what

it's going to look like, and you can move things around.

You can change images.

You change pieces of the script.

And you can do all of these things at the stage where it's much easier to make

changes than after you are using a computer and

software to put the story together.

So how are storyboards created?

Well, you can do them very simply with just pencil and paper, or

you can also use a computer, use software such as Word, Powerpoint, or Excel.

And, there are many storyboard templates available that are blank

versions of storyboards where you fill in the material with your script and

your descriptions, your images, etc.

On our educational uses of digital storytelling website,

you will find downloadable templates for storyboards

as well as a tutorial on how to create a storyboard using Microsoft Word.

So here's an example of a text only storyboard.

It uses sections of the script that will be narrated later, and

it shows a description of the images and

other media that might be included in this story.

Also, you'll find lots of examples of storyboards that include Thumbnail Images.

These are small versions of images that you plan to include in your

final version of your story.

And it also includes the script that's going to be narrated.

And sometimes you can add additional details, such as transitions or

effects or anything that you want to

serve as a reminder of what you'll need as you put your story together.

Storyboards can be fairly simple, or they can be more detailed as in this example.

And some tips for creating successful storyboards include

presenting your information in the right order, in a logical and coherent fashion.

Always try to include as much of the script as possible,

so you should really write your script first.

And then put your storyboard together with the descriptions of images or thumbnails.

Try to keep the visual element simple,

appropriate to what is being said in the script.

And images can be clip art, they can be thumbnails,

they can be just written descriptions.

Anything that shows the images that you either will create yourself,

take with a digital camera, find on the web, etc.

And finally, there's a lot more information about storyboards that you can

find on our Educational Uses and Digital Storytelling website.

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