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“Weaving Digital Stories into the Curriculum”
Miguel Angel GarciaQueen Creek Adult Education Program
Arizona Adult Education Digital Storytelling Conference
How did the Digital Storytelling class begin in Queen Creek Adult
Education Program?
Adult Education Digital Storytelling Institute
Professional Development (Study Circle on DS)
Adult Education Technology Integration Plan
Adult Education Educational Technology Facilitator (ETF)
QC Adult Education Rotating Class Schedule
Students’ Surveys
Program Technology Self-Assessment
Final Decision
What’s It All About?
In Acts of Meaning, cognitive psychologist Jerome Bruner proposed that one of the ways in which people understand their world is through the "narrative mode" of thought, an area of thinking that is concerned with human wants, needs, and goals. According to Bruner, the narrative mode deals with the dynamics of human intentions and when we are in this mode, we seek to explain events by looking at how human actors (including ourselves) strive to do things over time. As we ponder these actions, they "help us organize our thoughts, fill us with emotion, keep us in suspense, or instruct us in how to live and act. They also often present dilemmas concerning what is moral and immoral behavior“
Valuable Experiences and Lessons are passed on to others.
The Audience Capture:
What happened to a student
Why it was significant at the time
How it affected the student’s life and the lives of those around them
Using Digital Storytelling in QC Adult Education Program
Great Educational ValueShare PerspectiveEducateHelp Build UnderstandingHelp Build ToleranceHelp Build Compassion
(Informative, Questioning, Historical and Autobiographical)
Technology Tools vs. Story
It is very important that the technology tools used to convey the story don’t become more important than the story being communicated.
----If you don’t have a good story to tell, then the technology just makes that
more obvious---
--- When a digital story is finished it should be
remembered for its soul, not the music, pictures,
video effects, and transitions of the
technology tools.---
Can any Adult Education Program in Arizona integrate
DS into their curriculum?
Yes!It’s simple…
Two Reasons Why Adult Education teachers can incorporate DS in their
instructions :
1. To incorporate multimedia into their curriculum
2. To increase student participation, collaboration, and communication skills
How would I implement a DS component into my classroom?
Students Professional DevelopmentSupport (Administrator, Teachers, ETF…)Computer, microphone, speakers, Windows Movie Maker, Scanner, 1 ½ hrs. a Week (class)Some Technology SkillsSet GoalsCreative, Passion, Flexible
What skills would my students learn?
Technology Literacy (Information, Visual)ReadingWritingListeningSpeakingCritical ThinkingTeamwork (Collaboration)Communication Goal Setting
NEW SKILLS FOR NEW AGE
Program Outcomes (DS)
Students’ Self-Confidence
Students’ Retention (Attendance)
Increase scores in (Post-Testing)
Student Activities’ Participation
Reached Goals
More PD OpportunitiesGED students (Pass Writing test – High Score)
Film Festival – “Stories from the Heart”
What do I need?
Components of Digital Storytelling
ELEMENTS
Point of ViewDramatic QuestionEmotional ContentVoiceThe SoundtrackEconomy Pacing
Images: Proper Use & Images: Proper Use & ResourcesResources
Single works may be used in their entirety, but no more than five images by a single artist or photographer may be used.
FlickrFlickr Creative Commons
FlickrCC
Flickr Storm
More image resources are available
Audio: Proper Use & ResourcesAudio: Proper Use & Resources
Students may use10 percent or 30 seconds (whichever is less) of a musical composition.
ccMixter
Internet Archive
JamStudio
Soundsnap
More image resources are available
Video: Proper Use & ResourcesVideo: Proper Use & Resources
Students may use10 percent or three minutes (whichever is less) of “motion media.”
Internet Archive
WGBH Sandbox
Open Video Project
Discovery Education
Process of Digital StorytellingProcess of Digital Storytelling
Write script
Collect assets
Create storyboard
Draft, edit, and finalize
Publish and share
Tools for Digital StorytellingTools for Digital Storytelling
Match the tool to the task:Photo Story
VoiceThread
Xtranormal
Glogster
Animoto
Mixbook
Movie Maker
And 100s more…
What Do I Need?
SyllabusLesson PlansIndividual StoryboardSamples of Digital StoriesRubricTime Frame ChartsResourcesTutorialsVolunteers (If possible)
I am done with my DS class?What’s next?
Upload Videos (YouTube)
Make DVDs and/or CD
Print out the stories (Publish)
AALL Website
Film Festival
PresentationProgram
Community
Other Adult Education Programs
Digital Stories
Empty Hands
Never Give Up
WARNING
Student CompetitionQuality vs. QuantityThey all Want to use the Same TopicOverwhelming Students Give Up SoonClassroom Out of ControlStudents are Afraid to FailStudents are not Ready to tell a StoryOthers
