Digital Storytelling

Our group is digital storytelling. The sources I picked up are two videos: a digital storytelling done by a student and a talk by Glynda Hull. In the video, Hull thinks that “… literacy is being considered as social practice, consists different sets of skills, knowledge and technologies”. From the storytelling history from Wikipedia, storytelling has developed for a long time, from information convey to a new type of literacy. Digital storytelling makes any people can be the storyteller and the new form of storytelling allows more people engage in the storytelling process. Also, what I see from the DS106 class, for me as a future teacher, storytelling can be a good way to integrate researches and re-organize the information in certain way. To know more about Glynda Hull, I found case studies done by Glynda Hull “Crafting an Agentive Self: Case Studies on Digital Storytelling”. Interesting, one case is the student video that I watched. The video can be considered as a digital storytelling product and helps foster agency. From the case study, the student gained his own agency and said something about his life in his own voice.

About our group’s work so far, different thoughts are considered and we make a popcorn videos by organizing the information related to the thoughts. The interesting things about digital storytelling would be:

1. Media: people can use different platforms/medias as tools to convey themselves. The media we have known so far are Youtube videos, Porpcornjs project, Xtranormal, etc.

2. Voice: In the same storytelling, we can integrate multiple voices and retain the information in different forms.

What I am interested in is how to have interactive stories by digital storytelling. The way our group is trying to have every participant provide a keyword and we make a popcorn video based on the keyword by videos and pictures collected based on keyword. The popcorn video would tell a great story.