Digital Storytelling

Today's Agenda

• What, Why, How?
• Shadow Puppet
• Group Brainstorming
• Photo Walk
• BeFunky Photo App
• Group Activity/Presentations

By the end of the lesson, you will:

• Use technology to support the curriculum.
• Use documentation to analyze and plan for individual children’s play and curriculum. (Photos, videos, etc.).
• Examine the use of a variety of ways for children to represent and revisit knowledge through the use of Digital Storytelling.

Favourite Story?

What is Digital Storytelling?

Digital Storytelling

• Multimedia movie
• Combines photographs, video, animation, sound, music, text,
• Often a narrative voice to communicate a message/theme.

Themes?

Why Use
Digital Storytelling?

Why?

• It's Fun!
• Inspires creativity & motivation.
• Children can share their work.

Why?

• Collaboration.
• Creative writing.
• Digital literacy.
• Inspires traditional art of storytelling.

How Can You Use It?

How?

• Share the child's journey.
• Document field trips & events.
• Show processes.

How?

• Turn an existing story into Digital Story or have children create their own.

Digital Citizenship

Shadow Puppet

Group Brainstorming