Discussion Assignment Three
Try to find one or two good articles about digital storytelling. The article(s) you select may be on any topic related to to Digital Storytelling, but again like last week, please discuss why you think the article should be added to our site.
Important Note 1: An article about Digital Storytelling is not the same as a website that deals with the topic. Articles tend to focus on a particular aspect of Digital Storytelling and will have both a title and the name of the author or authors who wrote it. What you are looking for are resources that can b printed out and read by people interested in DS and could be given out as reading assignments in schools.
Articles that are found online will often be downloadable as Word documents or PDF files or they may be part of a web page, but will not usually be a series of web pages like most of the ones that were found and discussed during Discussion Assignment Two.
Important Note 2: Before you begin this assignment, you should examine the current Articles page under the Links menu on the current EUODS site and the Resources page on the previous DS site to make sure that the material you select has not already been listed.
When you have determined which articles you found that you think should be added to our site, post a comment in which you include the following information:
The name of the article
The URL of the article
The name of the author(s) and any information about them, if available
The date the article was written and any other publication information, if found
A brief synopsis in your own words of what the article is about
Any other information you think would be helpful in describing the article
Also please add any ideas you have about a category system that we might use to present these articles, similarly to what was requested last week for the websites that were found.
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I looked at the site and some of the articles I found that were worthy are already linked, so that is good. Alot of what I would have liked to read, couldn't be found easily unless you subscribe to the journals which I guess I will have to do eventually. I am seriously considering what my paper will be when I get to doctoral level and I am thinking that I would like to meld the gifted and talented at risk child with the use of technology such as digital stories, podcasts, wikis and blogs as a way to bridge their learning blocks whether it be underachievement, sensory disorders or what.... I have a ways to go and the idea is vague as of yet but anyway I am interested in reading about those things.
What I did find is "Once Upon a Time..." by Karen Feldman Spring 2007.
web link is
http://www.nwp.org/cs/public/download/nwp_file/0355/Once_Upon_a_Time.pdf?x-r=pcfile_
This article tells how digital storytelling was incorporated in classes of different age groups and the benefits of the use of DS.
The second article I found was Digital Storytelling and Gifted Students by Susan Randolph March 2007.
Website link:
http://wt2.cherokee.k12.ga.us/Susan Randolph/Teach21Research.pdf
This article discusses how digital storytelling can meet the needs of the gifted in the areas of their affective development as well as differentiating their curriculum for them.
The third article was titled "Capturing Stories, Capturing Lives: An Introduction to Digital Storytelling" by David S Jakes
The weblink was:
http://www.jakesonline.org/dstory_ice.pdf
This article is a step by step article on creating digital stories with the authors experiences interjected. He also includes storyboards that can be printed out to help students plan their digital story which I liked because I like my students to plan before they get on the computer. This would I think help focus students on the story first.
The links for the storyboards can be accessed and downloaded at:
http://www.jakesonline.org/storyboard_side.pdf
http://www.jakesonline.org/storyboard_top.pdf
Correction to the links.... Digital Storytelling and Gifted Students by Susan Randolph
weblink:
wt2.cherokee.k12.ga.us/Susan.Randolph/Teach%2021%20Research.pdf
Once Upon a Time by Karen Feldman
weblink:
http://www.nwp.org/cs/public/print/resource/2529
Okay...okay.... found two more and both are about at risk kids and the use of digital storytelling... and then I am really going to stop posting all the articles....
website:
http://www.readingonline.org/newliteracies/obrien2/
Article: Juxtaposing Traditional and Intermedial Literacies to Redefine the Competence of Struggling Adolescents
David O’Brien
http://isc.sagepub.com/cgi/reprint/43/3/168
Article: Digital Stories Targeting Social Skills for Children With Disabilities :Multidimensional Learning
CORI MORE, January 2009
Both of these articles discuss how digital storytelling projects can benefit at risk kids. Both are scholarly articles.
This assignment took longer than what I expected. Its probably because of the theme of DS that I was looking for. I wanted to find articles about Digital storytelling associated with social issues, diversity and culture. Here is what I found:
http://www.apc.org/en/news/gender/africa/breaking-tradition-african-women-dare-denounce-vio
By Sylvie Niombo, Durban, South Africa, 09 October 2007.
This article talks about a DS workshop for African women who are victims of domestic and other forms of violence. This article emphasizes the use of technology for developing awareness about serious social issues like violence against women in developing nations. It's quite an interesting article wherein the women who are violence victims themselves have developed digital stories for other victims.
http://www.scholastic.com/dreamincolor/digitalstorytelling/
This is not an article but a website link from scholastic.com. This link has resources for teachers who want to teach cultural diversity through the use of digital storytelling. It has lesson plans, step by step tips for the same.
http://www.prweb.com/releases/2008/11/prweb1586144.htm
Here is the article talking about the above Scholastic.com link. They are targeting all age groups so as to bridge the gaps between community, culture and technology.
http://www.cultureisaweapon.org/
This is another site about an organization called Third World Majority that organizes Digital Storytelling workshops and training aimed towards global cultural awareness and social change. Here is the article that talks about one of their workshops.
http://www.yesmagazine.org/article.asp?ID=553
By Desiree Evans
For Yes magazine
I found the following articles:
A pediatric digital storytelling system for third year medical students: The virtual pediatric patients (D'Alessandro, Lewis, and D'Alessandro) BMC Medical Education 2004
http://www.biomedcentral.com/content/pdf/1472-6920-4-10.pdf
This is a description of how digital storytelling was used to create pediatric "cases" for use in third year clerkship rotations. Students rated the experience as positive and useful.
Memories of Life: A Design Case Study for Alzheimer's Disease (Cohene, Baecker, Marziali, and Mindy)
http://kmdi.utoronto.ca/RMB/papers/B14.pdf
This is a very extensive research paper. The team made digital stories relating to the life histories of patients with Alzheimer's Dementia (AD) and then looked at different ways to help the AD patients make use of the stories. I think this is a very creative way to use DS to help a patient population.
With regard to how to categorize articles on the website, I think that categorization by topic is always the easiest way to find things.
This is a great paper reporting a study on how digital storytelling was brought into assisting teachers in Egypt to develop teaching and learning. The article draws on a large body of current literature on technology in education and digital storytelling before presenting the results of the study, which support the use of DS as an effective innovative tool in educational settings of Egypt.
There is more than one reason why I choose to introduce this article. First, it is a serious study, which would provide us who with a good source of reference for our study on DS later. Second, the content of the article opens a perspective beyond that of our society. Integration of technology is always one of the strengths of education in developed countries. In other societies, where technology facilities in schools are lacked, as well as teachers’ abilities to make use of technology for instructional purposes still lag behind, the introduction of DS into schools is a great achievement. There must be educators around the world viewing the web site we are working on; this article would contribute a global outlook to the use of DS.
This is the information on the article:
Title: Digital storytelling: a meaningful technology-integrated approach for engaged student learning
Author: Alaa Sadik
Published online: April 11 2008
Association for Educational Communication and Technology 2008
URL: http://www.springerlink.com.ezproxy.lib.uh.edu/content/c668444443573247/fulltext.pdf
I don't know why the link does not appear in full in the blog. I found it as a full text copy subscribed by UH Library.
This is it again:
http://www.springerlink.com.ezproxy.lib.uh.edu/content/c668444443573247/fulltext.pdf
I guess because it is subscribed by UH and you must provide your student ID to be able to read it. Anyway, this is the rest of the link, in case any of you wants to read it. This is a good, in-depth article.
content/c668444443573247/fulltext.pdf
This is another research on digital storytelling. The researcher explores the use and the effects of digital storytelling in community groups. As some of us have expressed the concern that we do not cover enough educational contents beyond the school, I think this article will go well with those web sites which emphasize the role of DS as a popular means of expression to raise awareness of community and human rights.
Title: Digital Stories of Community, Mobilization, Coherence, and Continuity
Author: Ian Beeson and Clodagh Miskelly, University of the West of England, UK
URL: http://web.mit.edu/comm-forum/mit4/papers/beeson%20miskelly.pdf
Regarding Anh's posting that included a link to an article that is accessible through the University of Houston Library, I think it may be best for us not to include articles that visitors to the EUODS website most likely will not be able to read. I know this will eliminate many good articles, but I think we should only add articles that we think everyone will be able to see.
What do does everyone else think?
With regard to Dr. Robin's question: I know that I had some difficulty finding freely available articles; much of what I found on Google Scholar and PubMed required a login or a fee. Despite the fact that this is challenging, though, I think if we're going to provide links on the web site, they should all be to things anyone can see. The one possible exception could be things you could see with a free account, so that people could easily sign up and see them.
I also had difficulty finding articles for this assignment. Many of the articles were already listed on the EUODS website, were already posted on this discussion, or were not free to view without a subscription or fee.
This is a paper authored by Jenny Kidd in which she discusses the use of digital storytelling to engage an audience in a global media market and the impact on those who contributed their stories.
http://www.yle.fi/ripe/Papers/Kidd.pdf
A Guide to Digital Storytelling
http://www.bbc.co.uk/wales/audiovideo/sites/yourvideo/pdf/aguidetodigitalstorytelling-bbc.pdf
It was written by members of the BBC team which has listed in "other DS website" page. But as a pdf article, it is new.
Beyond words- The Craftsmanship of Digital Products
http://faculty.philau.edu/kayk/KKay/articles/DigitalS_VisualLit.pdf
It states some strategies concerning to Digital storytelling and how digital productions allow students to use multimedia tools to creat and share their stories.
No matter how technology changes, a good digital product should contain a message which is worthy to be remembered. Students have more tools to express their ideas in today's world. The goal of teachers is to guide our students to learn the ability of effective communication. Digital story should be remembered for its soul, not the bells and whistles of the technology tools.
Leon,
I am going to read the article listed directly above. This is what students and perhaps all new to digital storytelling forget...the soul of the story. We get caught, and particularly the young children I teach, in the technology aspects and the fade ins and etc... that we lose sight of the story and impact the story it can make with just the right amount of technology.
Leon,
I really liked the Beyond Words article. I think the emphasis on story first is important, and I liked the tips it gives about how to best make use of your images. I think I'll come back to this one next time I make a digital story.
I seem to be having a hard time (like Lauren) with finding articles related to dentistry. I found a few from ADA but you have to be a member.
The one article that I have found is:
CDM iMovie competition spices up creativity
by Cindy Abole
The article is about dental students at Medical University of South Carolina who were assigned a project by a professor to put away their books for 4 days in his class and create a DS (2-4 minutes)using their creativity, video camera, laptop, and iMovie. The professor had heard about a national campaign for educators/students by Apple comupters and contacted them to assist him with his project. Computers were leased and funding was given for prize money for the most innovative digital stories.
This is a great example of technology being used in dental education.
In regards to Dr. Robin's question, I also agree that we should just post articles that may be viewed by anyone. It gets a little frustrating when you see a title/topic that sounds interesting but then you can't access it.
I read the article that Deidre found about the pediatric case studies for 3rd year students. I found this to be interesting as well becuase the skills that physicians need to learn is how to listen to a patient, how to problem solve and sythesize the situation,and also help them to develop their empathetic skills.
I have encountered physicians who are wonderful at what they do in medicince but they lack some perosnal touches that this could help them.
Lynda, thanks for the gifted links!
I enjoyed reading the article "Once Upon a Time". It is wonderful to see the other side of how DS would enhance other skills that we need to learn as a young student. We need to learn reading comprehension and writing skills. The added bonus is how to use media/technology to teach and to discover. Great article!
Dr. Robin, I think that we should have only articles to read as well. When I go to a website, I want the information I need and not have to be redirected to something else.
Constructing Digital Stories
by Kajder, Sara, Bull, Glen, Albaugh, Susan
Learning and Leading with Technology, v32 n5 p40-42 Feb 2005
ERIC # EJ697311
This is a good article that begins with the steps to creating a digital story, and then gives some teacher reflections and tips for using digital storytelling in the classroom.
http://www.eric.ed.gov/ERICDocs/data/ericdocs2sql/content_storage_01/0000019b/80/2a/19/38.pdf
Digital Images in the Language Arts Classroom
By Kajder, Sara; Swenson, Janet
Learning and Leading with Technology, v31 n8 p18, 19, 21, 46 May 2004
ERIC # EJ695775
Great article on the use of digital storytelling in the classroom. The article gives examples of reading and writing activities that teachers can use with their students. Discussed the how-tos of digital storytelling, along with practical uses in the classroom. This article can help justify the use of digital storytelling if questioned by administration.
http://www.eric.ed.gov/ERICDocs/data/ericdocs2sql/content_storage_01/0000019b/80/2a/17/28.pdf
That's the Story of My Life
Creating Storyboards for Graphic Novels About Adolescence
By Holly Epstein Ojalvo, The New York Times Learning Network
This is a lesson plan for helping students create personal digital stories that help them process and reflect on their feelings. Contains links to other articles.
http://www.nytimes.com/learning/teachers/lessons/20081113thursday.html
The Power of Storytelling: How Oral Narrative Influences
Children's Relationships in Classrooms
Author: Robin Mello
University of Wisconsin-Whitewater
http://www.ijea.org/v2n1/
International Journal of Education & the Arts Volume 2 Number 1 February 2, 2001
This article is about a research study that was done over a 1 year period on 4th graders. The conclusion demonstrates the impact of storytelling on child's self-concept. It also discussed how storytelling helped children process their social experiences in school.
The article also gives a brief explanation on how traditional storytelling was used to teach folk tales and how they impact children's learning experiences. It states that the "old" way of telling stories is very affective but in today's life, we need to incorporate technology in the classroom.
The article also states that DS is an art-based technology and that if it is not recognized or used in classrooms as an important tool to teach and learn, DS may be overlooked due to other technologies for instruction.
This article should be added because of the examles it gives on how it influenced the students life and what they thought about this experience in learning.
Yolanda,
I cannot get the link to the New York Times article to work. Do you have another? It sounds like a really interesting article.
I just found an article on use of Digital storytelling in the History classroom with applications for its use. The article can be found at:
http://www.digitalartsalliance.org/partnerships/fhao/downloads/FHAO-DAAguide.pdf
It looks pretty good. I am going back now to read the article.
1) http://www.infotoday.com/MMSchools/jan02/banaszewski.htm
Tom Banaszewski is the author for the article “Digital Storytelling Finds Its Place in the Classroom”. This article not only described how she incorporates digital storytelling in her classroom but also gave tips on how to produce a digital video and iMovie.
2) http://www.fastcompany.com/magazine/21/rftf.html
Daniel Pink is the author for the article “What’s Your Story?” It discussed the use of digital storytelling in the business world, such as the use of digital storytelling to capture stories of business founders and advertisements.
3) http://www.sfgate.com/technology/specials/1997/dstorytelling.shtml
Corey Hitchcock is the author for the article “Storytellers of the New Millenium”. This article tells how digital storytelling was first created. It has links to other digital storytelling sites where arts and personal stories are found on the web. It also has links to digital storytelling workshops sites.
Name of Article: HP Pioneers digital Storytelling
URL: http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/chronicle/archive/2005/10/11/BUGU2F6AJ71.DTL&type=tech
Author Benjamin Pineatal, Chronicle staff writer
Date: Oct. 11, 2005
This article is a few years old, but it is still new information to me. In 2005 HP had a project named "Scape the Hood" for the digital storytelling festival in San Francisco. The Festival participants used an IPaq (I think it might be something like an IPod) to hear stories about buildings, streets, and people to get a historical and current view of the city and the people who live there. Putting video, sound, and art all in one location really let people feel the emotions trying to be protrayed.
I really liked the the case study that Deidre posted on using digital stories to help patients with Alzheimer's Disease. It's the first one that I've seen that uses Digital Stories to aid patients against memory loss associated with AD. It's a very unique way of using DS in medicine.
I don't quite understand howt to make a hotlink. I think the end got cut off of the link. http://www.nytimes.com/learning/teachers/lessons/20081113thursday.html?searchpv=learning_lessons
if that doesn't work you can go here: http://www.nytimes.com/learning/teachers/lessons/archive.html
and search graphic novels.
sorry!
Digital Storytelling: A Tutorial in 10 Easy Steps
By: J.D. Lasica
Date: October 2, 2006
http://www.techsoup.org/learningcenter/training/archives/page10096.cfm
This is a link to a "10 easy steps" tutorial article for DS. The steps are fairly detailed and encourage the use of what you already have. Each step is also encouraging for beginners (and others) to trust in yourself, rather than worry about how you sound on recordings, etc. In addition, it includes helpful tidbits such as finding a quiet location for recording, when and how an interview should be used, and is written in such a manner that students (middle to high school) can understand it.
klrutter,
These steps are really useful and easy to follow by educators or people who want to produce digital stories.
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