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I will be discussing the benefits and possible pitfalls of using digital storytelling in the classroom. //**Tell me a fact and I’ll learn**// //**Tell me a truth and I’ll believe**// //**Tell me a story and I’ll remember it forever**// Storytelling and learning are inextricably intertwined because the process of composing a story is also a process of meaning-making. Integrating opportunities for “storytelling” into coursework strengthens course participant learning. Through storytelling, students are asked to reflect on what they know, to examine their assumptions, and to record their cognitive development through the process of revisions. Stories provide a record of students’ thinking and allow teachers to assess their progress toward learning goals. Digital tools make it possible for authors to construct multi-dimensional stories that are conveyed through a combination of words, images, motions, and sounds. Digital storytelling is one way to increase student engagement, especially for those students who do not respond well to traditional writing assignments. Properly constructed with clear rubrics, digital storytelling assignments are every bit as academically rigorous and involve just as much writing as traditional writing assignments. The process of developing a digital story is deeply engaging for students and fosters a type of reflection difficult to accomplish through print assignments. Digital storytelling assignments address the needs of aural, visual, and kinesthetic learners. If a digital storytelling assignment is not properly planned and implemented, the result can be overwork and frustration for both students and teachers. Teachers are not always properly trained on how to use digital storytelling tools. Untrained teachers are often unable to properly teach students how to use the technology. Another possible pitfall is a lack of computers in some schools. Not all schools are equipped for all students to be able to participate and that makes teaching difficult. White Water Rafting Video [|RUBRIC FOR DIGITAL STORYTELLING]
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**Digital Storytelling Resources ** **Digital Storytelling Related Podcasts: ** [] Includes why tell stories, what is digital storytelling, examples of digital storytelling, step-by-step guide, rubrics for assessment and list of resources.

Tim Wilson, “The Savvy Technologist” Blog: [] Includes Podcasts by Joe Lambert on Digital Storytelling

Wesley Fryer, “Moving at the Speed of Creativity” Blog: [|www.speedofcreativity.org] Includes Podcasts by Wesley Fryer

**Expert Digital Storytelling Websites ** Bernajean Porter Digitales: The Art of Telling Digital Stories (website) [|www.digitales.us]

Joe Lambert The Center for Digital Storytelling <span style="font-family: 'Cambria','serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">[|www.store.storycenter.org]

<span style="font-family: 'Cambria','serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">Center for Digital Storytelling <span style="font-family: 'Cambria','serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">[|www.storycenter.org/index1.html]

**<span style="font-family: 'Cambria','serif'; font-size: 12pt;">Starter List of Ideas for Digital Storytelling **

<span style="font-family: 'Cambria','serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">Digital Story Examples: [|www.storycenter.org/stories]

<span style="font-family: 'Cambria','serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">Tips for Digital Story Telling by Jon Orech: [|www.techlearning.com/article/8030]

<span style="font-family: 'Cambria','serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">Julie Salpeter: Telling Tales With Technology: [|www.techlearning.com/article 3536]

<span style="font-family: 'Cambria','serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">Teach Digitial: Curriculum by Wes Fryer: []

**<span style="font-family: 'Cambria','serif'; font-size: 12pt;">Resources **

**<span style="font-family: 'Cambria','serif'; font-size: 12pt;">Timelines **

<span style="font-family: 'Cambria','serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">Chronological Timeline: <span style="font-family: 'Cambria','serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">[|www.teachervision.fen.com/graphic- organizers/printable/6301.html]

<span style="font-family: 'Cambria','serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">Timeline Generator <span style="font-family: 'Cambria','serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">[|www.teach-nology.com/web_tools/materials/timelines]

<span style="font-family: 'Cambria','serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">ReadWriteThink Interactive Timeline: <span style="font-family: 'Cambria','serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">[|www.readwritething.org/materials/timeline]

<span style="font-family: 'Cambria','serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">Timeline Graphic Organizer: <span style="font-family: 'Cambria','serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">[|www.eduplace.com/graphicorganizer/pdf/timeline.pdf]

<span style="font-family: 'Cambria','serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">XTimeline: [|www.xtimeline.com]

**<span style="font-family: 'Cambria','serif'; font-size: 12pt;">Storyboards **

<span style="font-family: 'Cambria','serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">StoryBoard Pro free tutorials: <span style="font-family: 'Cambria','serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">[]

<span style="font-family: 'Cambria','serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">Storyboarding: A Recipe <span style="font-family: 'Cambria','serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">[|www.storycenter.org/memvoice/pages/tutorial_3.html]

**<span style="font-family: 'Cambria','serif'; font-size: 12pt;">Shared Resources for Image and Video **

<span style="font-family: 'Cambria','serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">Google Image Search: <span style="font-family: 'Cambria','serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">[|http://images.google.com]

<span style="font-family: 'Cambria','serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">The Commons: [|www.flickr.com/commons]

<span style="font-family: 'Cambria','serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">The Open Video Project: [|www.open-video.org]

**<span style="font-family: 'Cambria','serif'; font-size: 12pt;">Audio Clips **

<span style="font-family: 'Cambria','serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">Podsafe Audio: [|www.podsafeaudio.com]

<span style="font-family: 'Cambria','serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">Partners in Rhyme: Free Sound Effects <span style="font-family: 'Cambria','serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">[|www.partnersinrhyme.com/pir/PIRsfx.shtml].

<span style="font-family: 'Cambria','serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">Freeplay Music: [|www.freeplaymusic.com]

<span style="font-family: 'Cambria','serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">The Freesound Project: [|www.freesound.org]

**<span style="font-family: 'Cambria','serif'; font-size: 12pt;">Production **

<span style="font-family: 'Cambria','serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">imovie: <span style="font-family: 'Cambria','serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">[|www.apple.com/ilife/imovie]

<span style="font-family: 'Cambria','serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">Learning in Hand (Tony Vincent): [|http://learninginhand.com]

<span style="font-family: 'Cambria','serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">Photo Story: [|www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/using/digitalphotography/photostory]

<span style="font-family: 'Cambria','serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">Movie Maker: [|www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/downloads/updates/moviemaker2.mspx]

**<span style="font-family: 'Cambria','serif'; font-size: 12pt;">Creativity Tools for Production **

<span style="font-family: 'Cambria','serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">Bubbleshare: [|www.bubbleshare.com]

<span style="font-family: 'Cambria','serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">Audacity: [|http://audacity.sorurceforge.net]

**<span style="font-family: 'Cambria','serif'; font-size: 12pt;">Podcasting **

<span style="font-family: 'Cambria','serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">Poducate Me: Podcasting in Education: [|www.poducateme.com]

<span style="font-family: 'Cambria','serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">Podcasting: How to Create a Podcast: [|www.voices.com/podcasting.html]

<span style="font-family: 'Cambria','serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">Podcasting Tools: [|www.podcating-tools.com]

**<span style="font-family: 'Cambria','serif'; font-size: 12pt;">Online Hosting **

<span style="font-family: 'Cambria','serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">Teacher/Tube: [|www.teachertube.com]

<span style="font-family: 'Cambria','serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">YouTube: [|www.youtube.com]

**<span style="font-family: 'Cambria','serif'; font-size: 12pt;">Presentation Creators **

<span style="font-family: 'Cambria','serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">SlideRocket: [|www.sliderocket.com]

<span style="font-family: 'Cambria','serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">Slide Share: [|www.slideshare.net]

<span style="font-family: 'Cambria','serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">LetterPop: [|http://letterpop.com]

**<span style="font-family: 'Cambria','serif'; font-size: 12pt;">Assessment **

<span style="font-family: 'Cambria','serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">David Warlick’s Rubric Machine: []

<span style="font-family: 'Cambria','serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">DigiTales – Overview of Evaluating Projects: [|www.digitales.us/evaluating]

**<span style="font-family: 'Cambria','serif'; font-size: 12pt;">e-Scrapbooking **<span style="font-family: 'Cambria','serif'; font-size: 12pt;">:

<span style="font-family: 'Cambria','serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">Annette Lamb’s e-scrapbooking site: [|http://escrapbooking.com]

<span style="font-family: 'Cambria','serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">eduScapes://eduscapes.com

**<span style="font-family: 'Cambria','serif'; font-size: 12pt;">Scrapblog: **

<span style="font-family: 'Cambria','serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">[|www.scrapblog.com]

**<span style="font-family: 'Cambria','serif'; font-size: 12pt;">Historical and Cultural **

<span style="font-family: 'Cambria','serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">Next Vista for Learning: [|www.nextvista.org]

**<span style="font-family: 'Cambria','serif'; font-size: 12pt;">Place-Based, or StoryMapping **

<span style="font-family: 'Cambria','serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">Google Maps: [|http://maps.google.com]

<span style="font-family: 'Cambria','serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">Community Walk: [|www.communitywalk.com]

<span style="font-family: 'Cambria','serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">GPS and Place-Based Learning (Annette Lamb): []

**<span style="font-family: 'Cambria','serif'; font-size: 12pt;">Weather **

<span style="font-family: 'Cambria','serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">Wild Weather, NOAA Weather Library: [|www.photolib.noaa.gov]

<span style="font-family: 'Cambria','serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">Weather Links at Kathy Schrock’s Guide for Educators: <span style="font-family: 'Cambria','serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">[]

<span style="font-family: 'Cambria','serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">Creative Commons: Search for Images: <span style="font-family: 'Cambria','serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">[|http://search.creativecommons.org]

<span style="font-family: 'Cambria','serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"> <span style="font-family: 'Cambria','serif'; font-size: 12pt;">Journey North - [|www.learner.org/jnorth/monarch/] <span style="font-family: 'Cambria','serif'; font-size: 12pt;">Monarch Watch – [|www.monarchwatch.org] <span style="font-family: 'Cambria','serif'; font-size: 12pt;">North American Butterfly Association - [|www.naba.org/] <span style="font-family: 'Cambria','serif'; font-size: 12pt;">Monarch Butterfly – [|www.fs.fed.us/monarchbutterfly/migration/index.shtml] <span style="font-family: 'Cambria','serif'; font-size: 12pt;">Monarch Butterfly USA - [|www.monarchbutterflyusa.com/MBUSA.htm] <span style="font-family: 'Cambria','serif'; font-size: 12pt;">Angangueo’s Monarch Butterfly Migration - [|www.roadandtravel.com/travel%20directory/Mexico/angangeobutterfly.htm] <span style="font-family: 'Cambria','serif'; font-size: 12pt;">National Geographic Monarch Migration video -http://video.nationalgeographic.com/video/player/animals/bugs-animals/butterflies-moths/butterfly_monarch.html <span style="font-family: 'Cambria','serif'; font-size: 12pt;">To embed National Geographic Video: <span style="font-family: 'Cambria','serif'; font-size: 12pt;">Embed - <embed src="http://images.nationalgeographic.com/wpf/sites/video/swf/ngplayer_syndicated.swf" flashVars="slug=butterfly_monarch&img=http://video.nationalgeographic.com/video/player/media/butterfly_monarch/butterfly_monarch_480x360.jpg&vtitle=Monarch%20Butterflies&caption=The%20monarch%20butterfly's%20wintering%20grounds%20in%20Mexico%20are%20in%20peril.%20Are%20the%20monarchs%20in%20trouble%20too?&permalink=http://video.nationalgeographic.com/video/player/animals/bugs-animals/butterflies-moths/butterfly_monarch.html&share=true" name="flashObj" width="460" height="321" seamlesstabbing="false" allowfullscreen="true" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" pluginspage="http://www.macromedia.com/shockwave/download/index.cgi?P1_Prod_Version=ShockwaveFlash"> <span style="font-family: 'Cambria','serif'; font-size: 12pt;"> <span style="font-family: 'Cambria','serif'; font-size: 12pt;">National Geographic Kids videos –http://video.kids.nationalgeographic.com/video/player/kids/animals-pets-kids/bugs-kids/monarch-butterflies-kids.html <span style="font-family: 'Cambria','serif'; font-size: 12pt;"> <span style="font-family: 'Cambria','serif'; font-size: 14pt;">Monarch Websites