Quote:
"An essential element of the digital composing process was the “Story Circle.” Based on a component of the 3-day CDS Standard Digital Storytelling Workshop Jacobs attended, the Story Circle is an in-class workshop where students share their story ideas and get feedback from others in the class" (Raimist, Doerr-Stevens & Jacobs, 2010).
Reflection:
I chose this quote because I think that reflection from others is just as important as self-reflection. In an online class we can't have a "Story Circle" in the literal sense, but we can have a "Story Circle" in the digital sense, by using social media tools like blogging. Reflection of others is very important. In one of the video's, a young lady shared her digital story "White Teacher" to others and got feedback that the video seemed "sad" and that was not her intention. She then made changes like "happier music" to her digital story. Without an audience perspective, she may have mislead others away from the true author's purpose.
Although digital storytelling is the modern expression of the ancient art of storytelling, it is much easier to misconstrue the context of a digital story as opposed to the ancient storytelling. When someone is telling a story in person, emotion and expression of the storyteller is evident. When someone is telling a digital stories, elements like music, fonts, camera angles, etc portray the emotion and expression of the author. It is easy for an audience to misinterpret the author's emotion due music or sound effects. That is why reflection of others is very beneficial to digital story telling.
Other Resource:
7 Things You Should Know About Digital Storytelling
This is short, but informative information about Digital Storytelling. It would be great for people very new to the pedagogy of digital storytelling.
Sources:
Raimist, R., Doerr-Stevens, C., & Jacobs, W. (2010). The pedagogy of digital storytelling in the college classroom. Retrieved from http://www.seminar.net/index.php/home/75-current-issue/145-the-pedagogy-ofdigital-storytelling-in-the-college-classroom
I think you made a good comparison between a f2f classroom and our digital classroom. I also agree that digital messages are easier to misunderstand the message than when a story is told in person but that is why good listening skills and medial evaluation is so important.
ReplyDeleteI'm glad you focused on strategies to facilitate good digital storytelling! We will definitely be using the story circle strategy to help each other tell the stories we want to tell!
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