Monday, 13 July 2015

Track B4 - Drop-in Session: Hands-on Session Following on from track C1


Alex Chapman, Middlesex University, Centre for Academic Practice Enhancement (CAPE)

The drop-in session was a follow up from the morning session - Digital Stories – Everyone Has a Story to Tell by Luiza Dantas and Alex Chapman. This workshop focused on four stages of creating a digital story such as pre-production, production, presentation, as well as assessment and reflection. These stages were discussed in details and covered:
*gathering and researching multimedia in compliance with copyright laws
* writing a script
* planning the stories using digital storyboards tools (online and paper based)
* using technologies and various software that are free are accessible for students
* presentation and assessment of digital stories

Resources from the session: 
 
Guides and websites:


Kathy Schrock's Guide to digital stories
Digital Storytelling Tools for Educators by Silvia Rosenthal Tolisano
Digital storytelling site for students and educators

Software:
 Apple iMovie (Macintosh OS X)
 Audacity (Macintosh OS X and Windows)
 Microsoft Photo Story 3 (Windows)
 Windows Moviemaker 2.1 (Windows)
 Google story builder
 21 Free Digital Storytelling Tools For Teachers and Students

Free pictures:
Flickr: Advanced Search for Creative Commons only.
http://www.flickr.com 
Compfight: Search Creative Commons Flickr Images
http://compfight.com/
Pixabay
http://pixabay.com/
wikimedia commons
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Main_Page 

Free images

 http://www.freeimages.com/

Royalty-Free Music and Sounds:
http://digitalstorytelling.coe.uh.edu/page.cfm?id=23&cid=23&sublinkid=95
http://freesound.org
http://soundbible.com

The Centre for Academic Practice Enhancement (CAPE) provides staff support for use of Digital Stories - queries can be sent to elearning@mdx.ac.uk.

The Centre for Academic Practice Enhancement (CAPE) offers staff development across a range of areas relating to academic practice and learning technologies, please visit our pages in the 2015-2016 MDX Staff Development Brochure* the chapter called Developing Academic Practice which starts on page 19

(*This link directs you to a page on the Mdx Staff Intranet, you will need access to the University's internal server to view this).

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