Digital Storytelling - Fiona Thomas (Texthelper)

Digital Storytelling
Inspiration for collaborative writing using technology.

https://pollev.com/ - How are you feeling today? Use for polls for questions, answers using emojis etc.

Look for things that make writing more enjoyable, engaging for the teachers and students.
Students as creators not consumers - Tech tools work best when students are active learners - When they are asked to develop, create and share their work.
Producer - Writer - Director - Editor

Writing is the most academically challenging task students undertake - It is difficult (Planning, composing, editing etc) What do they struggle with? Digital tools can help make a task easier.

For many students access to learning looks like this (boring/daunting staircase). They should experience something more like this (Staircase with multiple paths) - Give multiple options for expressing, gaining understanding and presenting their ideas.
Engagement - Representation - Expression (Giving students ranges of opportunities).

Multiple options for access to learning expression and engagement - Range of ways to tell a story.

"Technology in the classroom is not the end goal. Enabling learning everywhere is the goal".

Agency productivity - Having control over what they are doing. Important when working with children with varying needs.

How will digital technology make a difference?

The writing process:
- Drafting
- Editing
- Pre-Write
- Revising
- Publish/Sharing

Tasks - Tools - Flexibility

The most dangerous writing app: Top writers: Sustained writing (quick writes) The most dangerous writing app... https://www.themostdangerouswritingapp.com/
Start typing and write! It stops when you stop.

iFake Text Message: https://ifaketextmessage.com/
Oral Language tool - understanding dialogue - different text language etc. Interview questions. Debating (persuasive writing).

Read and write: Web based tool bar for many forums. A tool that sits above docs. Word prediction, text to speech, reading back to them (read aloud - help with re crafting). "Significant improvement in writing quality and quantity 98% increase in writing output". Makes writing less daunting. Changes quality, quantity, and output.
Stimulate podcasting - audiomaker - another way of accessing texts.

Choose your own adventure stories with Voice: Google docs and Google slides.

My simple show: Record your own narration or choose a computer voice. Draft - Write - Visualise - Finalise.

StoryboardThat: Complex

Headliner app: Complex - Create an audio file, automatically creates the caption. You can find images, videos etc to go with the words.

Join my class (Pixton): https://join.pixton.com/tykkd - Create a avatar class.

Piktochart: Create your own infographic.

ThingLink: Image with links that can link to another website (youtube, text, quotes etc) - a different way to organise your thoughts. Teacher directed (very similar to hyperlinks).

Make Beliefs Comix: Traditional comic strip, easy, simple.

Seven steps to writing success:
1: Plan for success
2: Sizzling starts: Exciting starters. Grab the readers attention. Prompt to start the writing - does not have to be what you see but what you feel or how you interpret the picture/video/video games. Comparing and talking about what they have written - even if it is just about sharing a funny part that they love about their writing. Possibly (if taught correctly) could get some real feedback from their peers. Discover sizzling starts through multiple forums outside of writing.
3: Tightening the tension
4: Dynamic dialogue
5: Show don't tell
6: Ban the boring
7: Exciting endings/Endings with impact