Digital Compositions Seminar Overview


1.	Our Stories: An Overview of the Power of Digital Storytelling
	Gary Ryan GWP Technology and Academic Liaison ryang@cbchs.org
2.	Basic Elements
	Point of View Drama Emotional Content Voiceovers Soundtrack Brevity Pacing (rhythm and flow)
3.	Choosing the Right Media
	Premier, Movie Maker, PowerPoint
4.	Prewriting
	Picking the Correct Story: Initiation, Place, Adventure, Argument, etc… Storyboarding Organizing Digital Material (scanning images, digital cameras, recording voiceovers, and capturing music)
5.	Writing
	A. Scaffolding writing activities that move students from script to presentation B. Technical Elements: Creating Project Files and Folders Importing Source Files Creating Titles Editing audio and video Custom Animation and Special Effects Compressing and Presenting Your Finished Movies
6.	Digital Compositions and Education
	Assessment, Publishing, Inquiry based projects
7.	Follow up Tech Wednesdays throughout the school year.
	Research, Reading, Collaboration and Mentoring

Online Reading List
	Literacy, ELL, and Digital Storytelling: 21st Century Learning in Action :January 2009 A short video documents a semester-long digital writing project led by two Bay Area Writing Project teacher-consultants. It features my friend Clifford Lee.
	Digital Storytelling Brings New Dimensions to Reading, Writing, and More: Can digital storytelling improve reading comprehension, writing skills, and media literacy? (Some of you might have read this last week.) It features my friend
	Digital Storytelling for Language and Culture Learning, by Judith Rance-Roney Rance-Roney, a teacher with the Hudson Valley Writing Project, explains digital storytelling, discusses its strengths in promoting literacy, and, by documenting her own multilingual classroom work, suggests a path for getting started with this technology.
	Is Technology Producing a Decline in Critical Thinking and Analysis? Science Daily (January 29, 2009)
	"Why Teach Digital Writing?" from Writing in Digital Environments (WIDE) Research Center Collective

Books of Interest
	A New Literacies Sampler Edited by Michele Knobel and Colin Lankshear, Peter Lang, Publishing, Inc. New York, ISBN 978-0-8204-9523-1 ISSN 1523-9543, 2007
	Redefining Literacy for the 21st Century (Paperback) by David Franklin Warlick ISBN: 1586831305 Redefining Literacy for the 21st Century (Online compliment) by David Franklin Warlick
	Teaching the New Writing: Technology, Change, and Assessment in the 21st Century Classroom Edited by Anne Herrington, Kevin Hodgson, and Charles Moran (2009)