Digital Storytelling
Digital storytelling is a development of the age old art of spinning a yarn. We all love listening to stories, reading them and writing or illustrating our own. The national Digital Storytelling project takes this process a stage further by utilising digital video, digital still images and freely available editing software such as Windows Moviemaker or iMovie to produce professional quality digital productions. Having produced ideas for stories, pupils and teachers are helped through the process of researching, gathering together visual resources, text and sound. A storyboard to help focus a final product is essential before the excitement of creating a movie begins.
The national website at http://story.e2bn.net/ not only provides comprehensive guidance on how the processes and software work but also a publishing area where we can all share each other?s work. Latest examples include animated stories from Reception to KS4 and teachers? lesson examples. A library of classroom safe resources is also available along with links to the 75 years of digitised news material from British Pathe and the copyright free AudioNetwork database of 6,000 mood and backing music files.
If you are using Windows XP then you will already have access to WindowsMoviemaker IV, or you can upgrade earlier versions free. The Digital Storytelling website provides help and guidance for you to upload your finished stories to the website gallery. Obviously this is not intended to store your lengthy epics but everything is automated and no Internet publishing skills are required.
SEGfL has been providing courses on the use of Digital Storytelling in the curriculum across the region. If you are interested in taking part in this project, please contact Chris Davison, SEGfL Project Officer.
tel: 01252 81 11 81.
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