SP19 Week Seven Agenda M|W

Monday | 25 February

Noteworthy

• Assignment Due today 25 February 2019: Field Observation I | Reflections about your students
• Assignment Due (in class) 11 March: Script & Storyboard
• Assignment Due in class 13 March: Field Observation II Access to Technology
• Assignment Due (in class) 18 March:  Digital Story Assessment Rubric

Reading | Lambert, J. (2012) Chapter 7: Approaches to the Scripting Process & Chapter 8: Storyboarding, Digital Storytelling. pp. 88-101.

Discuss Posts to Blog: An Approach to Multimodal Literacy | Media Grammar for Teachers

Working with the ideas in the section, produce a series of still images or a brief video that is a fair representation of the main concepts and prepare 3-4 minute presentation to explain them to your classmates.

1. A Well Lit Picture
2. Visual Noise
3. Camera Framing 
4. Camera Angles

Mini Lecture: Analyzing Multimodal Compositions

Field Observation I | Reflections about your students

Workshop   

• What is WeVideo?
• Sign up with WeVideo
• WeVideo: video production and editing (I DO, YOU DO, WE DO, YOU DO…)

1. Basic editing in Timeline Mode
2. Titles
3. Multiple tracks -> video
4. Animation
5. Video Levels (Dissolve)
6. Audio
7. Audio Levels
8. Multiple tracks -> audio

Discussion: Scripting for Digital Storytelling

• The 7th Step — writing for your audience
• A few notes about scripting
  • Just short enough, but not any shorter
  • Including a scene, position yourself within the narrative
  • Focus on the narrative, use visuals, SFX and music to texture the narrative with context and description.
• Dear students… 4×6
• The Story Spine: Pixar’s 4th Rule of Storytelling
• Viewing:
  • Cycle of Life – a digital story by Dany Martinez
  • An Agricultural Place –  a digital story by David Vigil

Discussion 3: Storyboarding for Digital Storytelling

Resources: There are any number of storyboarding apps to choose from including apps dedicated to the iPad. (You might just prefer using Post-It Notes on a sheet of paper).

• Visit the App store and explore the various StoryBoard tools. While I cannot recommend one or another application, there are numerous interesting apps to explore.  Of course read the reviews before spending money.
• Prezi is particularly effective for storyboarding.
• You might also consider Google Slides. (Please note: the application you choose for your storyboard needs to be well suited for representing the semiotic systems you are exploring).
• Lino – collaborative bulletin board for posting notes, images, and video

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Wednesday | 27 February

Noteworthy

• Assignment Due (in class) 11 March: Script & Storyboard
• Assignment Due in class 13 March: Field Observation II Access to Technology
• Assignment Due (in class) 18 March:  Digital Story Assessment Rubric
• Digital StoryTelling Exploration Deliverables

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

Workshop:  Audio for Digital Storytelling

1. Recording and uploading your voice-over narration
   • Where is the mic?
   • How to hold the mic?
   • Where to do the recording?
   • How to upload a recording?
2. Sound Effects (SFX) and Free Sound from the Audio Commons

Discussion 1: Scripting for Digital Storytelling

• The 7th Step — writing for your audience
• A few notes about scripting
  • Just short enough, but not any shorter
  • Including a scene, position yourself within the narrative
  • Focus on the narrative, use visuals, SFX and music to texture the narrative with context and description.
• Dear students… 4×6
• The Story Spine: Pixar’s 4th Rule of Storytelling
• Viewing: Cycle of Life – a digital story by Dany Martinez
• 4×6 and Pixar’s 4th Rule of Storytelling

Discussion 2: Storyboarding for Digital Storytelling

Resources: There are any number of storyboarding apps to choose from including apps dedicated to the iPad. (You might just prefer using Post-It Notes on a sheet of paper).

• Visit the App store and explore the various StoryBoard tools. While I cannot recommend one or another application, there are numerous interesting apps to explore.  Of course read the reviews before spending money.
• Prezi is particularly effective for storyboarding.
• You might also consider Google Slides. (Please note: the application you choose for your storyboard needs to be well suited for representing the semiotic systems you are exploring).
• Lino – collaborative bulletin board for posting notes, images, and video

Discussion 3: Digital Storytelling & Assessment

1. Assignment Due 19 March (in class) | Blog Post 7: Digital Storytelling Assessment Rubric
2. Ohler, J. (2013) Chapter 4: Assessing Digital Stories.  Digital Storytelling in the Classroom. 
   1. why assess? In the era of accountability & ubiquitous technology
   2. What to assess — digital story assessment traits
   3. How to assess — do I need to make a rubric? Can I establish criteria and qualitatively discuss effectiveness?
3. Viewing:  Lost & Found – by Jeff Leinaweaver
4. Small group activity: Digital Storytelling and Assessing “Media Grammar.”   Link to course readings
   1. Ohler 14 | Ohler, J. (2013) Chapter 14: Media Grammar.
   2. Seeing & hearing the story | Lambert, J. (2012) Chapter 5: Seven Steps of Digital Storytelling

Workshop 2:  MoreAudio for Digital Storytelling

1. Sound editing workshop
   • Log in to WeVideo and go to your practice edit.
   • In video track, insert images of people having a conversation
   • Record, upload and lay down voices for the conversation
   • Make sure the voices are timed appropriately
   • Lay down a music track
   • Include a SFX (sound effect)
   • Balance sound levels
2. (I DO, YOU DO, WE DO, YOU DO…)
   • Audio
   • Audio Levels
   • Multiple tracks -> audio
   • Basic editing in Timeline Mode
   • Titles
   • Multiple tracks -> video
   • Animation
   • Video Levels (Dissolve)