Digital storytelling in the classroom : new media pathways to literacy, learning, and creativity / Jason Ohler ; foreword by David Thornburg.

Provides information on integrating digital storytelling into curriculum design.

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Ohler, Jason
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Thousand Oaks, CA : Corwin Press, ©2008.
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Table of Contents:
  • Foreword / David Thornburg
  • Preface
  • Acknowledgments
  • About the author
  • pt. 1. Storytelling, education, and the new media
  • 1. Confessions of a digital storytelling teacher : twenty revelations about digital storytelling in education
  • 2. Defining and discussing digital storytelling : helping teachers see, think, and talk about digital storytelling
  • 3. Digital storytelling as an educational tool : standards, planning, and literacy
  • 4. Assessing digital stories : the opportunities and challenges of new media evaluation
  • pt. 2. The art and practice of storytelling
  • 5. Thinking about story : the story core, story mapping, story types
  • 6. Applying story maps : seeing the core, mapping the story
  • 7. Story planning considerations : tips, techniques, lessons learned
  • 8. Transformation formations : how we, and the characters in our stories, change
  • 9. More story maps : from Aristotle to present day
  • 10. Other kinds of stories : different story forms and story perspectives
  • pt. 3. Going digital
  • 11. The media production process, phase I : developing the story
  • 12. The media production process, phases II-V : from preproduction to performance
  • 13. The digital storytelling toolbox : the tools teachers and students need to tell digital stories
  • 14. Media grammar for teachers : assessing media expression
  • 15. Copyright and fair use in education : living in the gray zone, doing the right thing, and protecting yourself
  • Epilogue : If I had a time machine
  • Resource A : Teaching oral storytelling
  • Resource B : Audio techniques for video recording oral storytelling
  • Resource C : Audio techniques for interviewing people
  • Resource D : Freytag's pyramid
  • Resource E : Grammar of camera angles
  • Resource F : What's scannable?
  • Resource G : Joseph Campbell's story adventure diagram
  • Resource H : Visual portrait of a story
  • References and further readings
  • Index.