Digital Storytelling Resources

According to Wikipedia Digital Storytelling is;

... an emerging term, one that arises from a grassroots movement that uses new digital tools to help ordinary people tell their own 'true stories' in a compelling and emotionally engaging form. These stories usually take the form of a relatively short story (less than 8 minutes) and can involve interactivity.

Digital storytelling has started to enter many classrooms and teachers are looking for various resources to utilize in their curriculum. Here are some links to get you started about digital storytelling:

> Shared Experiences, Individual Impressions: Buddies Create PowerPoint Stories

Rubrics

> Digital Storytelling Rubric

> Scott County Digital Storytelling

> HyperStudio/Powerpoint Appearance and Content

> Multimedia Project

> Video - Preproduction

> Storyboard - Multimedia

Digital storytelling can be a term with broader reference to a variety of other emergent new forms of digital narratives that includes web-based stories, interactive stories, hypertexts, and narrative computer games. The University of Houston has a great website to expand on digital storytelling called The Educational Uses of Digital Storytelling. On that site there are student examples, a software list, essentials, getting started, evaluation and other digital storytelling how-to links. Here are some outstanding social studies digital storytelling projects from the University of Houston.

Discovering Digital Stories



UMBC Faculty Explore Digital Storytelling

Free NASA Space Poster - For Teachers Only

The NASA Discovery & New Frontiers Programs Office is part of the Science & Missions Systems Office at the George C. Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama. The small-class Discovery missions and the medium-class New Frontiers missions complement NASA’s flagship missions to meet the many scientific and technical challenges of deep space exploration. Their web site describes the functions of the Program Office and has an introduction to the staff. It provides historical information on how the programs came to be.

This office is currently offering a free poster to teachers (make sure you scroll down to the bottom of page) that compliments reading and writing activities to teach students about the solar system. The Space Thrills! poster is for K-4 students learning about our Solar System and ponder Solar System Mysteries. Teacher Tips and Resources and Student Activities are included.

> View poster front (PDF file)
> View poster back (PDF file)

The back of the poster has 9 page of Language Arts activities!

For Teachers Only
To receive a free copy of this poster send the following information:

> Your name
> Grade level
> Complete school name and address
> Email address

To this email, Shari.E.Asplund@jpl.nasa.gov