Connected Educator Month @iES
Day 9 - Tell Your Story
Tell Your Story
Yesterday you learned about digital storytelling and browsed through more than 50 ways to tell a story using Web 2.0 tools. I hope you put your thinking caps on and dreamed up your own story to tell! Today, you’ll take your first step into digital storytelling.
- Follow the 3 easy steps on the 50 Ways wiki to get your story online. Outline your story, find some media, and create your story using an online tool.
- Maybe you’d rather try your hand at a 5x5 video. Record five 5-second clips and put them together to create a 25-second simple vignette.
- Another great example of using clips to create a story is this time lapse video of the first 12 years of a little girl’s life.
- If you chose video as the medium for your digital storytelling journey, log in to YouTube and upload your video. Be sure to fill out the title, description, and give it some relevant tags, including CE12 (the tag for Connected Educator month) so others who are doing this activity can find your story.
Vimeo has free instructional videos on the basics of video recording, choosing a camera, and even video editing, which could come in handy when putting together your first digital story. Check out their video school.
That’s it for today, nice work! Tomorrow we’ll explore the world of the online photo sharing community Flickr.
All text, links and videos are from the Connected Educator Starter Kit.