Digital+Storytelling

Check this out...for your Oral History Project!!!
=What is Digital Storytelling?= Digital Storytelling is the process of writing about a story and adding the multimedia elements of voice, images and music to create a visual story. = = =Why use Digital Storytelling?= We use Digital Storytelling because...
 * it develops visual and multimedia literacy for students.
 * it develops application of digital media to represent a message or story.
 * it provides students with a voice by enlarging their boundaries of whom they can communicate.
 * it increases their power of communication.
 * it permits students to recapture creativity, develop it, intensify it, apply it, and extend it.
 * it allows students to write more effectively by permititng them to visualize their writings.
 * it gives students an opportunity to explore elements of technology and information literacy while learning the ethical use of materials as per copyright and fair use.
 * it provides an opportunity for differentiated instruction, allowing students to create as per their ability.

This Powerpoint walks you through creating your movie on MovieMaker.(with thanks to my friend Jen Dorman)

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