BJP’s Books and Articles
- ISTE’s 2009 Storytelling Corps: Celebrate the History Makers of Education Technology and MORE!
- The Art of Digital Storytelling: Becoming 21st Century StoryKeepers (Creative Teacher)
- DigiTal Storytelling Across the Curriculum (Creative Teacher)
- ISTE's Digital Storytelling Interview with Bernajean
- Beyond Words: The Craftsmanship of Digital Products
- Digitales: the Art of Digital Storytelling
- Evaluating Digital Products: Resource and Training Materials for Using Student Scoring Guides
- Digital Media in the Classroom: The Art of Digital Storytelling
- Raising the Bar on Student Performance and Achievement: Evaluating Digital Products
- The Art of Digital Storytelling by Hall Davidson and Bernajean Porter
- Telling Tales with Technology by Judy Salpeter
- The Art of Digital StoryTelling:
Becoming 21st Century StoryKeeper
by Bernajean Porter. The
Creative Teacher (Tech4Learning.com)
ISTE’s 2009 Storytelling Corps: Celebrate the History Makers of Education Technology and MORE! |
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| Come one! Come ALL!
Please join us in creating
a worldwide, time-traveled
collection of the many
images and storytelling
memories detailing
the hero journey of
our successes, challenges,
and celebrations of
education technology
making a difference
for our kids. This
visual history is being
collected as a world-wide
resource bank to remind,
inspire and finally
be available for the
new ISTE’s 2009
Storytelling Corps
dedicated to gathering
the human history of
education technology
thus far.
Please help spread the word among your colleagues . . after years of initiatives and personal fortitude we hope this will be an opportunity to celebrate your own heroes and initiatives. Oh the stories we could tell . . . . looking forward to the amazing stories documenting our legacy to kids! Join the ISTE Digital Storytelling Wiki http://digitalstorytelling.iste.wikispaces.net
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The Art of Digital Storytelling: Becoming 21st Century StoryKeepers (Creative Teacher) |
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Gather round those roaring campfires, picnic tables or even a fondue pot because the ancient art of storytelling is being revived into an emerging communication mode called digital storytelling. Becoming good storytellers gives us personal power as we guide, motivate, entertain, educate, inspire, and influence others through the artful use of story. What an experience to guide a new generation into becoming 21st Century StoryKeepers™ knowing their personal narratives will endure for others long after the fires die down! Two specific elements are given detail description in this article because they are considered especially essential for good storytelling: Living in the Story and Unfolding Lessons Learned. If either of these two elements is missing, you likely are viewing a great digital story but not storytelling.
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| Q: What
do you love about digital
storytelling?
A: I am deeply committed to the art of digital storytelling—not as the latest technical fad but as a way of nourishing our inner lives while also deeply connecting with others. At the end of the day who we are as a people are the stories we tell about our lives, values and experiences. The collection of these stories actually creates a field of influence (storyfields) for others. The magical power of releasing our own story into local and global communities is its ability to create understandings, build positive relationships, and leverage shared values between people of different communities or cultures. Our world could use a LOT more of that! |
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| Printed text has lost its monopoly to multimedia
- are you and your students ready with these emerging communication
skills? This ISTE article provides an overview of designing
communication for impact using more than text. For students
to be successful communicators in the 21st Century, they need
to be sophisticated in expressing ideas with multiple communication
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This enchanted book by Bernajean Porter shares the art and possibilities of telling digital stories. Digital storytelling takes the ancient art of oral storytelling and engages a palette of technical tools to weave personal tales using images, graphics, music and sound mixed together with the author’s own story voice into a three to five minute movie. While there are many technical books on hardware and software as well as traditional storytelling books, there are few books like DigiTales written to blend the power of both together. It is meant to help beginning digital storytellers select and use digital media as well as provide ideas and resources for experienced technology users to enable them to take first steps in storytelling. The following chapter titles give an overview of the book’s content:
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Evaluating Digital Products: Resource and Training Materials for Using Student Scoring Guides |
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Announcing NEW groundbreaking, evaluation tools
and processes called Student Scoring Guides now available to
help measure the quality of student technology products as
well as reveal patterns of school-wide system successes / challenges
in using technology for student achievement. Are you using
Six Trait Scoring methods to guide quality student work? Have
you had experience in collecting student writing samples to
assess success of effective writing instruction and learning?
Then these tools are your NEXT step – assessing student
computer created products! Teachers and students are welcome
to access the Student Scoring Guides for their own personal
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Digital Media in the Classroom: The Art of Digital Storytelling |
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| This is an ebook online at TechLearning.com
based on Judy Salpeter's article. You have to register but
if you are looking for a great resource with many examples
including references to some Bernajean's work, this is the
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Raising the Bar on Student Performance and Achievement: Evaluating Digital Products |
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| While this article is not directly about digital
storytelling, it does provide an overview of closely related
topic – how do you assess a quality digital product – how
can students be guided to develop exemplar communication – and
how might the scoring guide tools let schools know that technology
is making a difference? |
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The Art of Digital Storytelling by Hall Davidson and Bernajean Porter |
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| Hall Davidson, the director of Discovery Educator
Network, talks with Bernajean Porter about the essence of what
digital storytelling is and how it can be used in the classroom.
This article reflects on the role of resources like United
Streaming to support students in practicing basic communication
skills as well as demonstrating higher-order thinking as they
move from data to enduring understandings through digital storytellling
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| Judy interviewed a number of other educators
including Bernajean to create this great overview of digital
storytelling. She incorporated a number of Bernajean’s
ideas and work into her article that introduces the world of
digital storytelling with educators. You have to register but
it is a great resource for first steps into digital storytelling. |
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| The Art of Digital StoryTelling: Becoming 21st Century StoryKeeper by Bernajean Porter. The Creative Teacher (Tech4Learning.com) | |
Gather round those roaring campfires, picnic tables, or even a fondue pot, because the ancient art of storytelling is being revived into an emerging communication mode called digital storytelling. Telling stories together about things that really matter has an extraordinary effect on people. Digital media and digital distribution to the world community is reshaping the power of oral storytelling, enabling us to unfold a highly sensory experience that dances a narrative voice with images, sound, and music into illuminated understandings. What an experience to incorporate digital storytelling into your classroom and guide a new generation into becoming 21st- Century StoryKeepers, knowing their personal narratives will endure for others long after the fires die down! Read how digital storytelling differs from digital stories along with a teacher's example for getting her students to move past the literal and provide a deeply personal story.
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