Live blog of Jason Ohler’s keynote to open Digital Storytelling workshop…Fredericton, New Brunswick, Canada, March 17, 2008
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Cell phone are “screasels”…screens + easels = what our kids see these new technologies as…our kids are creating content for these screasels…
Literacy does not mean reading and writing…but means consuming and producing media forms of the day…used to be text…now includes much more…
Words change to collage…words don’t disappear…just mix with other forms…
web 2.0…everyone becomes a producer…web 2.1…collage…
web 3.0…web becomes intelligent …Jason thinks it’s 3 to 5 years away…(I think closer!)
art is the 4th R…multimedia is the WWW esperanto…assistive tech for the aesthetically challenged….real work, real pay…ISTE on board…copyright is real.
“Digital Storytelling” is not about the gear…it’s all about the story…we don’t need to worry about the high end, lengthy media production…functional equivalent…written work camera ready…”live with the rough edges”…tech needs to serve the story…
Role of teachers,…leave clicks, tricks to kids with time…deputize: guide on the side not tech magician…recognize free labour when you see it….create learning community… assess & give feedback…deconstruct media…if teachers not comfortable with assessment of new media…we give A for “anything”….need to know media grammar…”isn’t it cool” is not good enough…digital tricks are distracting…
Crime to throw out all the elements and just assess the final product…e.g. storyboards, video, etc…
Our kids understand innately the story form…we want to give em the report form…need to have tension…the obstacle/problem…resoultion ….and transformation.
Death in a story is a slide show of someone’s vacation…
Jason just showed video from Alaskan native girl…powerful story about “speaking with care”…she included conflict, resolution and transformation… writing first, then speaking…when kids hear themselves speak their own words, they will rewrite…
Jason is showing some other examples of student digital storytelling…powerful…the key is the authenticity…personal…no glitz or slick production…links to stories ate located at http://www.jasonohler.com/socap
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Jason is outlining media production process for kids… a) story planning, b) pre-production, c) production, d) post-production and e) performance/distribution
danger in storytelling? Story vs Critical thinking….need to combine two…visually differentiated text..
I like that “art” is part of the discussion. I think the visual often gets left out of the writing classroom.
Interesting: the most powerful digital stories seem to have a sadness element to it. (my opinion — not in yer notes).
A colleague in National Writing Project and I started this blog last year to investigate how digital storytelling can move onto the web: http://techstories.edublogs.org/
Our culmination project was the Collaborative ABC Movie Project: http://k12online.wm.edu/TheCollaborativeABCMovie_Project.htm
Thanks for the live blogging
Kevin
I meant to add:
The idea of student writers “hearing” their voice and then revisions is a powerful concept and one that we must continue to explore, in my view.
Kevin
I enjoy using digital storytelling a lot in class. Thank for sharing this post as I am always fascinated with the use of web2.0 empowering literacy to greater heights. I would love to be part of these sessions. Keep us posted.
Hi Jeff, I am tagging you for the meme passionquilt. When scanning through your blog I could not see that you had been tagged before, so I hope you havent. Anyway see the rules at http://murch.globalteacher.org.au/2008/03/20/meme-passion-quilt/