CONTEXT In Kurt Vonnegut’s writing on the topic, he identified at least eight common “shapes” for stories, but in the video clip you saw him talking about only three of them. In Christopher Booker’s book, The Seven Basic Plots, he identified seven core plots from epic stories that seem to come up again and again […]
The gallery below shows the most recent entries on on my Share Your Digital Literacy Stories Vimeo channel. For more info on my digital literacy interviews, scroll down below the video gallery. WHAT’S A DIGITAL LITERACY NARRATIVE? The “literacy narrative” is a very popular genre among writing teachers, as it encourages students to reflect on […]
NOTE: I wrote these instructions for students who were using a class blog I set up on my own domain name, using the full self-hosted version of WordPress. But the basics of creating a new blog post are very similar to what you’ll find on WordPress.com When you first log into the class blog, you’ll […]
ABOUT THIS PROMPT: The prompts below are from Joe Lambert’s book, Digital Storytelling: Capturing Lives, Creating Community, with some modifications to adapt them to a handout. Lambert is a founder of the Center for Digital Storytelling and author of the Digital Storytelling Cookbook (PDF), which serves as a guide to creating your own digital stories. […]
Check out the wide variety of web-based apps you can connect to your Google Drive account. The link takes you to the Chrome store, but once a tool is connected to your Google Drive account, you can use it in any web browser. I’ve connected: Pixorial, Pixlr, Powtoon, NodeFire, and more. (More details coming soon.)
When you want to record something that appears on your computer screen, you can do that with screen recording tools that work like the video version of taking screenshots. You just click “record” and the app starts recording everything on your screen. Screencasts are most commonly used to create tutorials that demonstrate how to do […]
“Telling weak stories with technology is like giving a bad guitar player a bigger amplifier.” “Writing is the primary tool used to plan and create a digital story. The saying “if it ain’t on the page then it ain’t on the stage” is just as true for digital storytelling as it is for theater and […]
While you’re in school, most of your writing is directed towards a teacher who is obligated to read it. But after college, most of your writing will need to entice readers to invest the effort, given that they won’t otherwise be obligated to read it. The principles of reader-friendly formatting have always applied to print-based […]
A group of Fall 2014 students made this animation (using the free animation maker at GoAnimate.com) to clarify the difference between sex and gender. Student Commentary The entire first chapter of Garbacik’s book Gender and Sexuality of Beginners is about the biological factors of sex and gender. Specifically, there is a lot that goes into […]
PSA video by Wylie (WRTG 3020 – Fall 2012) Tools/Approaches: images, audio clips, iMovie I’ve created this piece for both Christians and non-Christians alike. I want to show how negative … Continue reading Explanatory Video by Amy Goodloe About the Project At the “Digital Media and Composition” workshop I attended in the summer of 2011, […]
Pitch: What would you do if something you relied so heavily on was taken from you…while you were in the middle of the ocean? Digital Story by Jane (WRTG 3090 … Continue reading Remix video by Collin (WRTG 3020 – Fall 2013) Rhetorical Context Audience The audience that I intended for the video were fans […]
(From my Fall 2013 section of WRTG 3090) APPROACH Tell your story through a sequence of about 5-10 still images, from the sources listed below. Deliver the final version in a format that allows viewers to browse or click through the images at their own pace, rather than “auto-playing” them. In other words, the final […]
Below you’ll find an overview of three common approaches to storytelling through new media. Each of these approaches allows you to make an emotional connection with your audience in different … Continue reading
Infographics have long been popular ways to share information in visual formats, but only recently have tools emerged that allow anyone to create an infographic without needing access to professional … Continue reading (Originally posted on the blog for my section of WRTG 3035: Technical Communication and Design.) I just came across yet another infographic […]
