Digital Storytelling in the Classroom: New Media Pathways to Literacy, Learning, and Creativity Book

Foreword   David Thornburg     vii
Preface     ix
Acknowledgments     xiv
About the Author     xvii
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     15
Digital Storytelling as an Educational Tool: Standards, Planning, and Literacy     41
Assessing Digital Stories: The Opportunities and Challenges of New Media Evaluation     62
The Art and Practice of Storytelling     69
Thinking About Story: The Story Core, Story Mapping, Story Types     70
Applying Story Maps: Seeing the Core, Mapping the Story     87
Story Planning Considerations: Tips, Techniques, Lessons Learned     95
Transformation Formations: How We, and the Characters in Our Stories, Change     107
More Story Maps: From Aristotle to Present Day     113
Other Kinds of Stories: Other Story Forms and Story Perspectives     124
Going Digital     131
The Media Production Process, Phase I: Developing the Story     132
The Media Production Process, Phases II-V: From Preproduction to Performance     149
The Digital Storytelling Toolbox: The Tools Teachers and Students Need to Tell Digital Stories     166
Media Grammar for Teachers: Assessing Media Expression     177
Copyright and Fair Use in Education: Living in the Gray Zone, Doing the Right Thing, and Protecting Yourself     192
Epilogue: If I Had a Time Machine...     202
Teaching Oral Storytelling     204
Audio Techniques for Video Recording Oral Storytelling     206
Audio Techniques for Interviewing People     208
Freytag's Pyramid     210
Grammar of Camera Angles     212
What's Scannable?     214
Joseph Campbell's Story Adventure Diagram     215
Visual Portrait of a Story     216
References and Further Readings     218
Index     221