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**I. Appetizer:** Why tell stories?
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**II. Tasting Samples: It's always about sharing a story!**

 * [|Power of One]
 * [|Parents]
 * [|Meet Granny Smith]

III. What is storytelling? What is digital storytelling? //Digital Storytelling is the modern expression of the ancient art of storytelling. Digital stories derive their power by weaving images, music, narrative and voice together, thereby giving deep dimension and vivid color to characters, situations, experiences, and insights. Tell your story now digitally.// - [|Leslie Rule, Digital Storytelling Association]
 * // Storytelling is an ancient and honorable act. An essential role to play in the community or tribe. It's one that I embrace //
 * Storytelling reveals meaning without committing the error of defining it. Hannah Arendt
 * // wholeheartedly and have been fortunate enough to be rewarded for. // Russell Banks
 * // The destiny of the world is determined less by the battles that are lost and won than by the stories it loves and believes in. // -Harold Goddard
 * // There have been great societies that did not use the wheel, but there have been no societies that did not tell stories. //-Ursula K. LeGuin
 * //Those who do not have power over the story that dominates their lives, the power to retell it, rethink it, deconstruct it, joke about it, and change it as times change, truly are powerless, because they cannot think new thoughts.//-Salman Rushdie

**IV. Directions: How to tell digital stories**
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 * [|Seven Elements of Digital Storytelling]
 * [|7 Elements of Digital Storytelling] (with examples)
 * Overview of elements of digital storytelling (Educause's [|7 Things You Should Know about Digital Storytelling]).
 * [|Digital Story Center Cookbook (PDF)]
 * 50 Ways to Tell a Story (Alan Levine--CogDogRoo fabulous list of tools and examples!) A must see!

**V. Warming-up**
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VI. Playing with stories:Individual or pair work on developing digital storytelling lesson/project and model product
 * Select a story prompt or use one of your lesson/unit ideas
 * Storyboard, script, collect images and other media across our digital story types
 * Produce!
 * Embed

**VII. Dessert: On assessing new student products**

 * [|Digital Media Scoring Guides]
 * [|Digitales: Overview of Evaluating Projects]
 * [|Storytelling Rubric] (Jason Ohler)
 * Scoring Guides (STHS Senior Project)

VIII. **Additional Ingredients**
On intellectual property
 * [| Story Table Handouts (Jason Ohler)]
 * [|Transformation Formations] (Jason Ohler)
 * [|Virtual Portrait of a Story] (Jason Ohler)
 * [| Storymapping Handouts] (Jason Ohler)
 * [|Digital storytelling storyboard template] (Jason Ohler)
 * [|Printable Storyboarding Templates]
 * [|Fair Use/Copyright Friendly LibGuide]
 * [|CopyrightFriendlyThumbnails]
 * [|Copyright Friendly Music and Sound]
 * Copyright Confusion Reasoning Document
 * [|Recut, Reframe, Recycle] (outlines areas of Fair Use)

**IX. Sharing and celebrating**Gallery walk. Reconvene and share progress, ideas, provide feedback/suggestions

X. Reflecting, Q&A; concerns, open-forum

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