I’m catching up on comments that fell through the cracks a couple months back when I caught the bad end of some wicked mojo.
I’d asked in a post for help with resources for Digital Storytelling, and “Nate Stearns,” for whom I searched on Technorati to no avail, posted this very valuable comment. So I’m sharing. Here it is (and thanks, Nate–we should talk about a DS flat classroom project next year, but talk about it sooner).
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Here’s what resources I used when I did my American Dream movie project. And, here are the results. If I had to do it over again, I would have been much more stringent about the storyboarding portion. Marco Torres came to talk to us and his ideas for teaching storyboarding and brainstorming would, I think, generate much better work.
Good luck with the project. I’m also trying to figure out how to pull off the “digital essay” ala Human Lobotomy. It’s a completely different medium and the rules take awhile to get down.
Oh, and here is one pretty awesome example of a student digital essay that I think could be a model for the whole enterprise.
Thanks for sharing those comments from Nate and the resources. The student stories are wonderful and the one you featured is quite powerful. That kid is destined for some kind of moviemaking.
I didn’t see your original post but I have been working with teachers around the country on a Collaborative ABC Movie Project. All of us are novices when it comes to video, but I have assigned letters to everyone and they are making short films around a theme of that letter (such as A is for Airplane, etc).
We are sharing them through our Weblog (http://techstories.edublogs.org/) and loading up into Jumpcut, where we will later collaborative edit the small movies into one larger one. (We are still waiting on four letter movies at this point)
The idea is to reflect on our use of tech and storytelling,and collaboration, and then translate that experience into classroom practice.
Feel free to come to the site, comment and see what we’re doing.
Kevin
I apologize ahead of time because this comment has absolutely nothing to do with, “Digital Storytelling Resources…”
Weeks after your comment to me I wrote a blog addressing your comment as well as the observations of a classmate:
http://bekahbhs.blogspot.com/2007/05/my-first-post.html