Classwork

Capstone Prep

Please update your blog posts at the Story Portal Site: http://nmdprojects.net/stories/

You will need either access to your story, or a summary and image ,  plus a pointer (URL, place to download code etc.). You may want to load a player on the computer in 113 IMRC that has a desktop version of your project.

I will also have iPads to preview the iBooks projects.

Consider what you want other NMD students to see, and how you get across both  a quick version/summary and a possibility of a longer read.

How to embed pdf and other files

For pdf, PPT, Pages and a host of other fies–use the new plug-in supported button in the post visual editor (WISYWIG editor, not text). The top right button is the google doc embedder and should allow you to upload pdfs to the Media library then show them.

For more info, see:

http://wordpress.org/plugins/google-document-embedder/

I will be in IMRC about 3 -3:30 pm to help anyone get your material on the computers or iPads.

Final Project Submission

Submit full versions of your stories as follows:

  • Prezi or Youtube: embed using URL, AND copy of video or downloaded prezi file
  • Ren’Py: code and standalone player WordPress: URL plus add an admin account with password (“add user”)–this can be sent to me via email via wordpress
  • iBook: both ibooks and iba files
  • Parallax site : URL, plus access to source code
  • Audio: audio file, plus mother file (premier, Final cut, or whatever you used)

Create a post for your final project with category “Final Project”. If your story can be accessed online, your post should contain text, URL, or be embedded (you tube videos can be embedded by just using the URL in a single line by itself in a post–you may add text or images, just not on the youtube URL line). If not give a summary and any representative image, then let me know how you will get your files to me dropbox thumb drive other…

 

Project 9: Story Full Draft

Submit a full draft of the text of your story in a post.  Use category “Full Draft”.

Project 8: Place Based Story

We’ll explore geotagging tools for place based storytelling developed by the PBS America’s National Parks Model.

The first module introduces Flickr-based geotagging of photos.

The second module explores how Google Earth can “help forge a stronger bond between community and place.”

The third module introduces techniques for digital storytelling including video editing, voice, over and special effects. Most of these use Windows software, so you’ll need to adapt for Mac applications for creating video-based stories . We’ll explore this third option later in the course for those interested in video.

Create Custom Map with New Google Maps/Earth

For more updated tutorials using the latest version of Google software, visit the Google Earth resources for creating Customs Maps, and embedding your map to a website. Your assignment is to create a Custom map with photos, text, links, and custom annotations. We will investigate these features, and the collaborate extensions of these custom maps in our Class Story Portal.

Project 7: Journals & Research

Gather materials, data, examples, for your project (due Feb 25)

Review the Journal Tips in your group sharing the best tools, tips, apps, and approaches to gathering material for your project.

What kinds of software, hardware, approaches, tools work to get your material?

How are you storing it? Organizing it?

Discuss with your group, post as a Journal entry ( a post with Title “Journal Tips” and category “Journal), and share with the class the best ideas from your group.

Project 6: Backstory

Follow the Character Backstory instructions to create a prezi for your story that outlines the main character’s 1) Desire, 2) internal obstacles and 3) External obstacles.

Post under “Character Backstory” category using prize embed iframe.

Project 5: Format

Create a sample of your story in its destination format. See the Story Format Assignment for more details.

Post under “Story Format” category.

Skim the Digital Storytelling Cookbook, Ch 5-7 (due Feb 11)

Skim for basic concepts, the software details are outdated because of  upgrades, but the concepts are mostly sound.

Project 4: Scene

Write and post one story scene from your story. You may use the in-class material and build on that to create a complete scene, or you may pick a different part of your story. Consider the Storytelling Cookbook. advice of using a photograph (or visual memory) as a cue for this. Don’t start at the beginning and explain all the background–that’s too hard. Just dive into the reality of the story world and tell the story of that moment.  you can use a format that suits your story, like a comic, a short video (to show audio plus storyboard sketches) etc.

Post under “Story Scene” category.

You will read to your group on Tuesday, revise, then present to class on Thursday.

Read the Digital Storytelling Cookbook, Ch 3-4 (due Feb 4)

Project 3: Proposal

Create a proposal for the main story, or set of stories, you want to work on during the semester. Include the format/skills you want to use, and if you will need to learn more skills to achieve your goals. See the Story Proposal page for an assignment guide

Jan 30:  Digital Cookbook p 5 lists kinds of stories. Which kind(s) relate to your story? Is it a simple genre or a hybrid? What shape does such a story have? In class you will define the kind, then begin to write about one scene, event, character or place in the story. Post this  “Story Proposal–sample” under category “Story Proposal”.

Read the Digital Storytelling Cookbook, Ch 1-2 (due Jan 28)

Project 2: Autobiography Part 2

  1. Submit autobiography as post with photos, video, audio. For video, copy Url in post in its own line to embed media, or upload photos and smaller files via the “media” button to the library.
  2. Add categories: “Who We Are”
  3. Add 2-3 tags that point to telling details of your stories
  4. Be sure you include a photo as this will create a photo/text link to your story and allow it to appear properly in the Stories page.
  5. Due dates as follows
    • T Jan 21 DUE: Turn in 2 interviews for Section 1.
    • Th Jan 23 DUE: Turn in Section 4 & 5, Education & A Day in your Future

Project 1: Autobiography Part 1

  1. Begin with in class Turning Point exercise.
  2. Add Interviews and post your work for week one
  3. Due dates as follows
    • Th Jan 16 DUE: Section 1-3,
    • Th Jan 18 : Section 2 (artifacts) will be done in class, probably in small groups; if not completed in class,  add your artifacts stories to your autobiography in your post week 2.

Story Portal

We’ll be exploring some ways to publish digital stories in an online, magazine-like format.

Our goal is to create a  story/poetry/video/audio magazine to showcase student stories in a variety of media formats.

See Story Portal Models as well as WordPress Story Engines for some ideas.

Each of you will find a way to submit some version of your story for the portal.

Tips

For Tips that will support your classwork, and help you improve your skills and grades, see Tips