Digital Storytelling Readings

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Introduction to the Multimodal Literacy and Digital Storytelling Workshop

Dalton, B. (2013). Multimodal Composition and the Common Core State Standards. Reading Teacher, 66(4), 333-339.

Media Literacy and Multimodal Rhetoric

Dahlström, H., & Damber, U. (2020). Meanings Made in Students’ Multimodal Digital Stories: Resources, Popular Culture, and Values. Designs for Learning, 12(1), 45–55.

Ohler, J. (2013) Chapter 14: Media Grammar for Teachers.  Digital Storytelling in the Classroom. Thousand Oaks, CA : Corwin. pp. 226-244.

Dezuanni, M. (2015). The building blocks of digital media literacy: socio-material participation and the production of media knowledge. Journal Of Curriculum Studies, 47(3), 416-439.

Dezuanni, M. (2018). Minecraft and children’s digital making: implications for media literacy education. Learning, Media And Technology, 1-14.

Digital Storytelling Workshop

Lambert, J. (2012) Chapter 5: Seven Steps of Digital Storytelling, Digital Storytelling: Capturing Lives, Creating Community. (4th Edition). Routledge : New York, NY. pp. 53-69.

Mini-Lecture: Seven Steps of Digital Storytelling

Lambert, J. (2012) Chapter 7: Approaches to the Scripting Process and Chapter 8: Storyboarding, Digital Storytelling: Capturing Lives, Creating Community. (4th Edition). Routledge : New York, NY. pp. 88-101.

Digital Storytelling & Assessment

Ohler, J. (2013) Chapter 4: Assessing Digital Stories.  Digital Storytelling in the Classroom. Thousand Oaks, CA : Corwin. pp. 83-91.

Digital Storytelling Across the Curriculum / Selected Readings in the Content Areas

Early Childhood

Bratitsis, T., & Mantellou, M. (2020). Using digital storytelling for teaching the subtraction algorithm to 2nd grade pupils. Themes in E-Learning, 13, 55–68.

Undheim, M., & Jernes, M. (2020). Teachers’ pedagogical strategies when creating digital stories with young children. European Early Childhood Education Research Journal, 28(2), 256–271.

Lisenbee, P. S., & Ford, C. M. (2018). Engaging Students in Traditional and Digital Storytelling to Make Connections Between Pedagogy and Children’s Experiences. Early Childhood Education Journal, 46(1), 129–139.

Maureen, I. Y., van der Meij, H., & de Jong, T. (2020). Enhancing Storytelling Activities to Support Early (Digital) Literacy Development in Early Childhood Education. International Journal of Early Childhood, 52(1), 55–76.

Husbye, N. E., Buchholz, B., Coggin, L., Powell, C. W., & Wohlwend, K. E. (2012). Critical Lessons and Playful Literacies: Digital Media in PK-2 Classrooms. Language Arts, 90(2), 82-92.

Kervin, L. & Mantei, J. (2016). Digital storytelling: Capturing children’s participation in preschool activities. Issues in Educational Research, 26(2), 225–240. 

Lisenbee, P. & Ford, C. (2018). Engaging Students in Traditional and Digital Storytelling to Make Connections Between Pedagogy and Children’s Experiences. Early Childhood Education Journal, 46(1), 129–139.

YAMAÇ, A., & ULUSOY, M. (2016). The Effect of Digital Storytelling in Improving the Third Graders’ Writing Skills. International Electronic Journal of Elementary Education, 9(1), 59–86.

Middle Child

Science 

Doyle, K., & Dezuanni, M. (2014). Children participating in science through digital-media literacies. Literacy Learning: The Middle Years, 22(3), 42-54.

Math

Gould, D., & Schmidt, D. (2010). Trigonometry comes alive through DIGITAL STORYTELLING. The Mathematics Teacher, 104(4), 296-301.

Albano, G., Coppola, C., Dello Iacono, U., Fiorentino, G., Pierri, A., & Polo, M. (2020). Technology to enable new paradigms of teaching/learning in mathematics: the digital interactive storytelling case. Journal of E-Learning & Knowledge Society, 16(1), 65–71.

ELA & Social Studies

Batsila, M., & Tsihouridis, C. (2016). “Once upon a Time there was…” A Digital World for Junior High School Learners. International Journal of Emerging Technologies in Learning, 11(3), 42–50. 

Miller, S. et. al. (2012) A Literacy Pedagogy for Multimodal Compositing. In: Suzanne Miller and Mary McVee (eds.). Multimodal Composition in Classrooms: Learning and Teaching for the Digital World. pp. 114-129.

Adolescent & Young Adult

Staley, B., & Freeman, L. A. (2017). Digital storytelling as student-centered pedagogy: empowering high school students to frame their futures. Research and Practice in Technology Enhanced Learning, 12(1), 21.

Science

Hoban, G., Nielsen, W., & Shepherd, A. (2013). Explaining and communicating science using student-created blended media. Teaching Science: The Journal of The Australian Science Teachers Association, 59(1), 32-35.

Yuksekyalcin, G., Tanriseven, I., & Sancar-Tokmak, H. (2016). Mathematics and science teachers’ perceptions about using drama during the digital story creation process. Educational Media International, 53(3), 216–227. 

Math

Albano, G., Coppola, C., Dello Iacono, U., Fiorentino, G., Pierri, A., & Polo, M. (2020). Technology to enable new paradigms of teaching/learning in mathematics: the digital interactive storytelling case. Journal of E-Learning & Knowledge Society, 16(1), 65–71.

Gould, D., & Schmidt, D. (2010). Trigonometry comes alive through DIGITAL STORYTELLING. The Mathematics Teacher, 104(4), 296-301.

Yuksekyalcin, G., Tanriseven, I., & Sancar-Tokmak, H. (2016). Mathematics and science teachers’ perceptions about using drama during the digital story creation process. Educational Media International, 53(3), 216–227. 

ELA & Social Studies

Miller, S. et. al. (2012) A Literacy Pedagogy for Multimodal Compositing. In: Suzanne Miller and Mary McVee (eds.). Multimodal Composition in Classrooms: Learning and Teaching for the Digital World. pp. 114-129.

Hildebrandt, K., Lewis, P., Kreuger, C., Naytowhow, J., Tupper, J., Couros, A., & Montgomery, K. (2016). Digital Storytelling for Historical Understanding: Treaty Education for Reconciliation. Journal of Social Science Education, 15(1), 15–26.