How might we harness the power of Transformers 4: Age of Extinction for good rather than evil? I'm not sure. Though I will say this: start with separating the content from the form, as Scott McCloud does so expertly in his work Understanding Comics. Steven Johnson advocates for the same in his work, Everything Bad Is Good For You.
The key is to look at how the format, the medium, and the vehicle can be employed to deliver meaningful content and provide opportunity to exceptional storytelling, rather than focusing upon the content and stories others have created that may or may not elevate the form or may or may not have value to our students.
Also, consider the power of short films. Vimeo's Editor's Picks are a tremendous resource for finding strong, quality SHORT FORM content. We constantly worry about having enough time in class; shorts, ads, trailers, these provide us complete narratives at a fraction of the chronological capital.
You may have noticed as the weeks go along, the list of resources and links provided grows. I continuously uncover little gems worth sharing with you folks and I worry we will reach the end of the course and I'll have twenty dozen links I wish I had shared with you.
Good time to remind everyone to take a look at the syllabus, the suggested calendar for due dates to maintain a solid pace, take a look at your possible unit ideas, blog about those readings, and ask lots of questions.
LOVED Twitter this week. Fantastic conversations and resource sharing.
Be certain to browse my digital storytelling curated link collections on my Diigo.
General Digital Storytelling Tool Lists
Digital Storytelling
And of course this week's focused collection
UMF EDU 571 Summer 2014 Wk 4
I am also presenting three digital storytelling challenges this week. Remember, you need not complete any of these. Any of them could become a great artifact -- and since you have three of them due by course's end, it may be of benefit to go after one of these three.
First Digital Storytelling Challenge
Using ______________ to create your product, combined with your content knowledge and your understanding of the essential elements of story, create a :30, :60 or :90 teaser trailer for an upcoming reading, unit or experience in your content or impact area.
Explore the trailer sites listed in Week 4 above to seek mentor texts to emulate.
Identify the core elements of powerful storytelling you want to use as you appeal to your users.
Consider how this might be used to increase student/colleague engagement in your impact area.
Imagine how students/colleagues might create such products to solve problems, demonstrate understanding.
Suggested Tools
WeVideo
YouTube Editor
iMovie (though I don't care for it)
Second Digital Storytelling Challenge
Use _____________, your understanding of the essential principles of storytelling as it applies to both narrative and marketing, and your content/impact area curricular needs to create a short animated advertisement that sells the viewer on the importance of a key item, concept, skill or understanding.Explore the ad sites and animated videos in the Week 4 list for mentor texts.
Identify the key item, concept, skill or understanding that needs to be advertised.
Craft a story that demonstrates the value of that item, concept or skill.
Employ the animation tools to create a way of conveying that story.
Suggested Tools
Zimmer Twins
ABCYA Animate
Wideo
Third Digital Storytelling Challenge
Using ________ to annotate or signpost a video that would be meaningful in your content/impact areas, coupled with your knowledge of the essential elements of storytelling, help your users develop the most vital understandings of the content through story -- whether that story be in the original video, your annotations, or both.Suggested Tools
Videonot.es
Blogger (Embed video & put annotations below)
Any Word Processor App (It can be this simple)
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