Digital Storytelling Tools & Educational Video Production
Digital storytelling involves the basic desire for communicating one’s story narration blending audio, video, images, and other media. This course introduces the basic concepts of storytelling while providing the necessary skills to implement and disseminate digital stories to promote an environment of media literacy and collaboration.
Description
The course entitled "Digital Storytelling Tools & Educational Video Production - Web 3.0” is an innovative training course for the educator’s personal improvement, under the Erasmus+ Key Action 1 Learning Mobility of Individuals.
Digital storytelling involves the basic desire for sharing one’s story, but in a way that blends audio, video, images, and other media to communicate the narrative. Incorporating digital stories in the classroom becomes an effective tool to promote an environment of media literacy and collaboration.
Using digital narratives in the classroom addresses varied needs and learning styles, and helps students communicate information while employing and embracing various learning styles, so that the teacher can provide differentiated learning approaches, satisfying learners’ Multiple Intelligences (based on Howard Earl Gardner research).
Digital storytelling allows students to be both creative and critical, while permitting them to experiment with a range of ideas in presentation and foster an acknowledgment of how form and media affect meaning. Assigning a digital story in the classroom can help students articulate themselves in ways that otherwise may have been limiting, such as if an essay had been assigned instead.
Learning objectives
The objective of this course is to familiarize European teachers with ways to use digital storytelling techniques in classroom, get familiar with the latest WEB 2.0 Tools and expand their knowledge in screen capturing and video producing. The training course will provide European teachers with an introduction to Digital storytelling approach, as well as with hands-on experiences with practical examples and case studies and tools that are commonly used to help students creating digital stories in the Classroom.
Teachers can:
• Create a digital story for use as an anticipatory set or hook for a lesson;
• Enhance current lesson plans with the use of a digital story within a unit;
• Assign student-created stories which requires students to research a topic from a particular point of view.
Although not a comprehensive list, digital storytelling can be used to:
• Appeal to the diverse learning styles of students by using Digital Storytelling as a presentation media;
• Publish student work on the Internet for viewing and critiquing by others;
• Promote the accomplishment of cross-curricular academic standards and learning objectives.
Methodology & assessment
The course modules will be implemented as follows, using the noted teaching technique:
• Digital Storytelling approach
• Introduction and analysis of Case studies
• Presentation of standalone authoring tools that can be used by teachers and students for creating digital stories
• Hands-on exercises on how to use these tools
• Possible scenarios on using these tools in everyday teaching activities
• Presentation of Web2.0 applications used by students for creating and sharing digital stories
• Ηands-on exercises on how to use these Web2.0 applications
• Possible scenarios on using these tools in everyday teaching activities
• Lesson plans ‘Pre existing lesson plans’ Tips do’s and don’ts’ strategies while creating a lesson plan incorporating digital storytelling tools and activities.
• Group based activity on evaluating lesson plans
• Presentation of Web2.0 applications used by students for creating and sharing digital stories
• Possible scenarios on using these tools in everyday teaching activities
The participants will receive continuous feedback during the workshops and group reviews for the produced activities and digital material. During the last day all the participants will present theirs works and discuss with other colleagues.
Certification details
Certification is provided upon attending minimum 90% of the course hours and presenting the material/activities created during the course week.
Pricing, packages and other information
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Price:400Euro
Additional information
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Language:English
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Target audience ISCED:Primary education (ISCED 1)Lower secondary education (ISCED 2)Upper secondary education (ISCED 3)
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Target audience type:TeacherStudent TeacherTeacher Educator
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Learning time:20-25 hours
