Digital Storytelling is a proven mechanism that helps students to remember various details. Combining it with a visual medium such as animation guarantees us to create content that engages our students. In this 1-hour workshop, produce short, engaging, memorable lessons by combining digital storytelling with animation. A combination that guarantees that your students recall the topics you covered.
Here are the links within the presentation:
Pre-Test: https://forms.gle/tgE5YVGiU5bNAbrXA
Slides are available at https://www.slideshare.net/ChevonneseWhyte/presentations
Responses: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1tfiJUAJ_2vIDcEhbt_kigOOMTkLx5DvT8YlXbSDqVQo/edit?usp=sharing
Create your Powtoon account: https://www.powtoon.com/pricing/
Video Instructions (Creating A Powtoon Account): https://youtu.be/dLbMq759sTk
Video Instructions (Editing Your Powtoon Presentation): https://youtu.be/3W0OSZdHz1I
Animating Digital Stories for Educators presentation submission: https://forms.gle/Dzki5npcxQZQpaxb8
Critiques: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1Xgr34RQtRaAPeaGQR91emTr_lFfwJhVuW9Pey5B_ArQ/edit?usp=sharing
Post-Test: https://forms.gle/WyrZQ4Qj31KZb4jk7
For questions and more about me, please visit
https://www.slideshare.net/ChevonneseWhyte/presentations
http://chevonnesewhyte.com
Socials: @ChevonneseWhyte
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Animating Digital Stories for Educators
1. Animating
Digital Stories
for Educators
BY CHEVONNESE CHEVERS WHYTE
DIGITAL PEDAGOGIES FOR SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT CONFERENCE
MAY 25-26, 2023
Pre-Test: https://forms.gle/tgE5YVGiU5bNAbrXA
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3. Today's
Agenda
OVERVIEW
Memory exploration
What is digital storytelling?
What is animation?
Create an animated digital story
Review stories from classmates
Slides are available at
https://www.slideshare.net/ChevonneseWhyte/presentations
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4. What do you
already know
about
animation or
digital
storytelling?
Responses:
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1tfiJUAJ_2vIDcEhbt_ki
gOOMTkLx5DvT8YlXbSDqVQo/edit?usp=sharing
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5. What would
you like to
know about
animation or
digital
storytelling?
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6. What do you do when you
have a nosebleed?
Where did you learn that, or
how did you acquire this
information?
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7. Why was this information
so impactful?
How is it that you
remember this information
without studying it?
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8. What is...?
Digital Storytelling
the practice of using
computer-based tools to
create short stories that can
be shared online (Robin &
McNeil, 2019).
Animation
moving images created from
drawings, models, etc. that
are photographed or created
by a computer (Animation,
2023).
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9. Let's create an
animated digital
story
Topic
Why did I start studying in my field? Or why is exploring this topic
important to me? Or why do I like this topic?
Open/ Create your Powtoon account
Go to https://www.powtoon.com/pricing/. Scroll down to
Educational Plans. Click Educational Plans. Scroll down to START
NOW. Click START NOW under FREE.
Inside your Powtoon account
Click CREATE in the top left-hand corner. Then click Presentation.
Scroll down to the Training intro (no more than 5 slides).
Video Instructions: https://youtu.be/dLbMq759sTk
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10. Let's edit your
animated video
Edit your presentation
Change the background
Add your own text
Preview your slides and the entire presentation
Preview your slide by clicking the small play button under the
slide
Preview your presentation by clicking the play button on the top
right-hand corner of the screen
Publish or Export your presentation
Click the drop-down arrow beside Publish/ Export in the top
right-hand corner of the screen
Click Share link
Video Instructions: https://youtu.be/3W0OSZdHz1I
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11. Post your links
here...
Animating Digital Stories for Educators presentation
submission
https://forms.gle/Dzki5npcxQZQpaxb8
Critiques
Review videos from your colleagues using the following link
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1Xgr34RQtRaAPeaGQR91
emTr_lFfwJhVuW9Pey5B_ArQ/edit?usp=sharing. Place a comment
in at least one of the videos. Talk about what you like, then
something that needs improvement and how you would have made
the improvement.
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12. What have
you learned
from this
session?
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13. What would
you have done
differently if
given the
opportunity?
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14. Key Points
Tell YOUR stories.
If you can, record yourself telling the story.
Flip it and have the students tell their own stories on
important content in the subject area.
With student permission, you can use their stories for
future lessons.
Any tool can tell your stories: Powtoon, PowerPoint,
recorded video, etc.
Post-Test: https://forms.gle/WyrZQ4Qj31KZb4jk7
Workshop Evaluation: https://bit.ly/SessionEvaluationDay1
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16. Thank you!
For questions and more about me, please visit
https://www.slideshare.net/ChevonneseWhyte/presentations
http://chevonnesewhyte.com
Socials: @ChevonneseWhyte
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17. References
and resources
References
Cambridge Dictionary. (2023, May 17). Animation.
https://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english/ani
mation
Robin, B. R., & McNeil, S. G. (2019). Digital Storytelling.
In The International Encyclopedia of Media Literacy
(pp. 1–8). John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.
https://doi.org/10.1002/9781118978238.ieml0056
Resources
Add Sound Effects, Music, &
Voice Overs to Your Video |
Powtoon Tutorial
https://www.youtube.com/watch?
v=I7RIYD6ikL4
How to upload a powtoon to
Youtube
https://www.youtube.com/watch?
v=f4vv_aHydQw
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