Nenana

Inservice

Digital Storytelling
Activity instructions
Storyboarding/Scriptwriting 1. We will be dividing into groups of 3-4 for these activities. 2. As a group, look through the image sets provided and choose one to work with. 3. Brainstorm story ideas. 4. Decide on your one best story and collaboratively write a short script. 5. Using the storyboard sheets, outline your story so that your words align with your images. 6. Practice reading your story and timing it. Your final story should be approximately 1 minute in length. Preparation 1. Choose a computer to work on as a group 2. Go to http://aknenana.weebly.com and click on the May 3 link 3. Locate the image set that your group selected and download it to the Desktop on your computer. 4. Double-click on the zip file that you saved to open the folder with your images. Station 1: Yodio 1. Go to http://yodio.com 2. Click the Sign In link and login with: Username: wouworkshops Password: 383tiw44 3. Click on the Create Yodio tab 4. Click on Create a standard blank Yodio and go to production system 5. Click Upload Images to import your pictures 6. Click Choose Audio to record your story a. You can borrow my cell phone, which is registered, or use your own. b. Dial the number provided on Yodio c. Follow the instructions on the phone. d. You will record audio for one picture at a time. When you have completed all steps for the first recording, you will be given the option to record another Yodio. Repeat this for each picture before you Send to Yodio e. After a minute or two, your recorded story will show up on Yodio as individual audio files. (You may need to click Check Content once or twice) f. Note: if you recorded from your own phone, you will need to click on Find calls made from unregistered numbers

7. Now you are ready to build your Yodio 8. Toggling between Choose Images and Choose Audio, drag your images and audio onto the boxes on the right side of the screen. Add your first image, then your first audio file, and then click Add Track to move to the next image 9. Select transitions that you would like to place between slides. 10. When complete, click Publish Now 11. Follow the instructions on screen to fill in a title, description, and content rating before clicking the final Publish Now button 12. Note: You may type your image citations into the Description box, or set your Privacy Options to Private if you run out of time. Station 2: Voicethread 1. Go to http://voicethread.com 2. Click the Sign In link and login with: Email: wouworkshops@gmail.com Password: 383tiw44 3. Click on the first Voicethread (Nenana Digital Storytelling) 4. Click on the Menu icon in the upper left corner and choose Edit 5. Click Upload/Edit and choose My Computer 6. Navigate to your images and, holding down your Shift key, select all of them. 7. Click Open 8. This will load all of your images into our Voicethreadone on each page. 9. Click and drag your images into the correct order for your story. 10. Click and drag one of the black The End slides to the end of your pictures. This will help us see the beginning and end of each digital story. 11. Now, click on the first image and click the Comment button (Under the Upload button). 12. This will open your first slide. Click Comment on the link. 13. Choose to record using either the microphone or your webcam. 14. You will probably have to click Allow to access your mic or webcam. 15. When you are done, preview your comment. 16. If you need to re-record it, simply click the X in the upper right corner to delete it and then start over by clicking Comment again. 17. When you are happy, click Save 18. Click on the arrow in the lower right corner to move to the next slide. Add the next part of your story to this slide, using the Comment tool. 19. Repeat until you have recorded your entire story. 20. When you are done, you can simply click on the MyVoice tab to view your entire Voicethread. If desired, you can click Share to get a link that you can send to yourself. 21. Note: If you have time, you can copy your image citations to a PowerPoint slide, save it, and upload it into your Voicethread to display as the last slide in your story.

 Station 3: PowerPoint plus Jing 1. On your laptop, open PowerPoint 2. Create a title slide for your story. 3. Add a new slide for each image and insert your images, in order, on separate slides. 4. When your digital story is ready to narrate, mouse over the Jing sun in the upper right corner of your computer screen. 5. Click on the crosshair tool and drag a selection box around the slides (only) in PowerPoint. 6. Click the video tab and begin narrating your digital story. 7. To change slides, simply click the next slide on the left column. 8. When you are done, click the Finish button. 9. Preview your video. If satisfied, upload it to Screencast. 10. To share your digital story with the rest of us, go to our website: aknenana.weebly.com and click on the Blog link. 11. Click on Comment under the first post and paste your title and link into your comment. Optional: If you would like to (and already know how) you may add transitions and music to your digital story. 1. To add transitions, go to the Slideshow menu in PowerPoint and choose transitions. 2. Add the desired transitions to your slide show. 3. To add music, go to the CC Media link on our website: aknenana.weebly.com where you can search for a piece of Creative Commons music. 4. Save the music you choose to the Desktop. 5. Go to the PowerPoint slide where you want the music to start. 6. From the Insert menu, choose Audio>Audio from file 7. Navigate to your music on the Desktop and click Insert. 8. Your audio file will be placed on the slide you are viewing. You may move it to the desired location on the slide. 9. In order to see the transitions and play the music, you will need to play your PowerPoint in the Presentation mode. This will require you to start Jing in a different way. 10. Mouse over the Jing sun in the upper right corner of the screen. 11. Click on the Preferences tab (looks like gears) 12. A big sun will pop up in the middle of your screen. Click on the Preferences button. 13. Look in the Capture Hotkey box to see the keyboard shortcut for starting Jing. (Normally this is Shift-Command-1 on a Mac). 14. Click the check mark to close the sun. 15. Now in PowerPoint, from the Slideshow menu, choose Play from Start 16. While PowerPoint is on the first slide, click on the keyboard shortcuts to start Jing. This will allow you to start recording without shutting PowerPoint out of the presentation mode. 17. Select the full screen with the Jing tool. 18. Now click the video, play your digital story, and record your narration. 19. To complete it, follow Steps 8-11 (before the Optional instructions)