Videos
This video is a recording of a personal development training for educators on digital storytelling in the classroom. The speaker describes how digital storytelling can be used in the classroom and what purposes that digital storytelling serves in the classroom. The video gives examples of how digital storytelling can be used in different subjects in classrooms. The video focuses on how to use Canva for digital storytelling. This video is helpful for teachers or people going into teaching who are looking for a tool to use in order to use digital storytelling in their classroom.
This video is a demonstration of how to create a digital story using Microsoft PowerPoint. The video goes through the process of creating a story on a PowerPoint presentation step by step including how to add animations and how to record a voiceover. This source is important because it will help people learn how to create their own digital stories using a well-known platform. Teachers can use this video to learn how to create a digital story on a PowerPoint or can even share this video with their students as a reminder of the process of creating a digital story for a project in their class.
This source is an example of digital storytelling that someone created and shared on YouTube. The video defines the word serendipity and tells a story that demonstrates the meaning of this word. This is an important source for teachers as it can be used as a model for students who are assigned with creating a digital storytelling. Using this video as an example for students, allows the students to see a simple example of what a digital story might look like where the story uses only images and a voiceover. This video is especially important for English teachers or teachers of subjects where there is special vocabulary that students need to learn. Teachers could have their students work in partners or groups to create a similar type of video that defines one of their vocabulary words and then share their videos with their classmates.
Books
-
Professional Manga
by
ISBN: 9780240810287Publication Date: 2008-06-17Combine high-end manga storytelling theory and advice with the tools for digital creation in Manga Studio, guided by expert professional manga-ka. You'll discover manga storytelling techniques, from speed lines to technology, from toning to big sound effects. Steve Horton and Jeong Mo Yang then show you how best to accomplish these techniques using the leading manga art creation program, Manga Studio EX. Every ounce of theory is backed up with step-by-step manga illustrations and Manga Studio screenshots that show how these illustrations were created. See the techniques in action in The Other Side of the Tracks, a new manga short story in the book centerfold which demonstrates at least one example from every technique described. You can also follow the continuing story as a webmanga available at comicspace.com. And there's more! The downloadable resources include trial version of Manga Studio EX along with high-resolution image files from the book. Smith Micro has also included a coupon for $100 off the full version of Manga Studio EX.
This source is a book that people can use to learn how to create professional manga, as a method of digital storytelling. The book takes readers through the process of creating manga and includes points on the dos and don'ts of creating manga. Professional Manga is geared towards people who are more artistic or people who are researching careers that use digital storytelling. This could be shown to students as an example of digital storytelling in the workforces or could be used as a way to engage students that are interested in manga.
-
Pixar and the Aesthetic Imagination
by
ISBN: 9780520292550Publication Date: 2017-01-10In Pixar and the Aesthetic Imagination, Eric Herhuth draws upon film theory, animation theory, and philosophy to examine how animated films address aesthetic experience within contexts of technological, environmental, and sociocultural change. Since producing the first fully computer-animated feature film, Pixar Animation Studios has been a creative force in digital culture and popular entertainment. But, more specifically, its depictions of uncanny toys, technologically sublime worlds, fantastic characters, and meaningful sensations explore aesthetic experience and its relation to developments in global media, creative capitalism, and consumer culture. This investigation finds in Pixar's artificial worlds and transformational stories opportunities for thinking through aesthetics as a contested domain committed to newness and innovation as well as to criticism and pluralistic thought.
Pixar and the Aesthetic Imagination: Animation, Storytelling, and Digital Culture is a book about the movie production company Pixar and its use of technology to create fully computer-animated films. This book can also be used by teachers as an example of a career or industry that uses digital storytelling. This source is also an example of the impact that digital storytelling has on society, as Pixar created several well-known films, such as Toy Story and Monster's Inc.
Resources
Canva is a free online graphic design platform that users can use to create various types of digital media. This tool has templates that users can modify to create their own media. Users can also create their media from a blank document and then search elements to include in the media. This is an important tool for digital storytelling because it can be used to create images that are used to tell a story.
Microsoft PowerPoint is a tool that can be used to create a digital story. This can be done by telling a story by creating images on a slideshow that, when played through tells a story. Users can add clip art or images to a blank slide to create their own story. This software allows users to find clip art and stock images without leaving the page.