Week 8 Activities
From LIS5313
Wk 8 Digital Storytelling & Youth-Produced Media (Feb. 27 - March 4)
Media Production:
- Digital Story Pre-Production and Planning
Readings: DUE BEFORE CLASS
- Nancy Courtney (ed), Library 2.0 and Beyond: Innovative Technologies and Tomorrow's User. Libraries Unlimited, 2007:
- Ch. 11: "Digital Storytelling, Libraries, and Community," by Karen Diaz and Anne Fields (pp. 129-140).
- Example of Student Web 2.0 Article:
Readings: OPTIONAL BUT RECOMMENDED
- Digital Story Cookbook-Download and read the introductory chapters of the Digital Storytelling Cookbook (published by the Center for Digital Storytelling). The introductory chapters are very short, easy to read, and address topics such as "finding your story," approaches to scripting, storyboarding, and digitizing story elements.
Links to Digital Stories by former students (for your review):
- By Anna W, October Wedding (This video has a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivs 3.0 License.)
- By Anne G, My Own Private West Virginia (This video has a Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 United States License.)
- By Christopher W, 800 Miles (This video has a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial 3.0 United States License.)
- By Dale B, That first cup of Jo (This video has a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 United States License.)
Discussion Blog:
- Group A facilitates discussion; all others contribute.
Peer Support:
- Continue to use the Peer Support blog to request and offer assistance on media exercises.
- Reminder: You should have a minimum of four substantive contributions to the Peer Support blog by the end of this week.
