Digital+Storytelling

= Digital Storytelling and Podcasting = = = Digital storytelling uses digital tools to enable people to tell stories in a different way. You can use special effects and transitions to create interest. It can be a great tool for students who were reluctant to write/illustrate the traditional pen and paper stories gone are the concern of being a good artist to tell your story in an interesting visual manner. Teachers can create movie files for lessons and students can use the programs to create their own projects and stories. Podcasting allows you to create and get audio and video files. You can record class lectures, etc and post them online for students to access at a later date.

Some Digital Storytelling and Podcasting tools:
MovieMaker: Window’s video editing software. Most PCs come with this program already installed. Once you import your video clips, you can edit them, add titles, effects, and transitions, and add music or narration. iMovie http://www.apple.com/ilife/imovie/ - Apple’s Video editing software. Works similarly to MovieMAker. iTunes: http://www.apple.com/itunes/overview/ - Plays audio and video files. You can purchase new files and organize your playlists/ collections. Garageband: http://www.apple.com/ilife/garageband/ - Also by Apple. A personal recording studio in your computer. You can record, edit and mix songs. It also helps create a vodcast, podcast with pictures. Audacity: http://audacity.sourceforge.net/ - open source software you can use to record and edit sound files. Two download are needed- Audacity and Lame MP3 Encoder. Their website has tutorials to help you along. <span style="font-family: �26�

Reading About Digital Storytelling and Podcasting:
Boettcher, Judith. (2007). iPod Course Design (Website). http://campustechnology.com/articles/48799/

Brock, Read, (2005). Lectures on the Go (Website). http://chronicle.com/free/v52/i10/10a03901.htm

Salpeter, Judy, (2005). Telling Tales with Technology (Website). http://www.techlearning.com/story/showArticle.php?articleID=60300276 Torrone, Phillip. (2005). What is Podcasting? http://digitalmedia.oreilly.com/2005/07/20/WhatIsPodcasting.html Unknown. Wonderful World of Podcasting. http://www.ftpplanet.com/blog_guide/podcasting.htm University  of Houston . (2008). Educational Uses of Digital Storytelling. http://digitalstorytelling.coe.uh.edu/