Digital Storytelling Workshop

Wow. My experience on the first day of this workshop was amazing! I had the opportunity to meet some truly amazing people and hear some mind blowing stories about their lives which I will elaborate more about on my next blog. Today we got down to business with creating scripts for their digital stories. First we started with explaining what “Elements of a story” are
Elements of a story
• Have your story be in 1st person
• Have a scene (where it took place)
• What happened? How did you change?
• Images
• Music
• Emotions or feelings
Next we had the students do some brainstorming, we had them:
• Write 3 possible stories they’d like to tell
• Choose one story that is most likely to become their story
• Form a story star
• Write their first introduction sentence at the bottom of the star, the first sentence has to hook & interest the listener
• Now begin writing your story
Below is a picture of the story star. Each point in the star has a question to answer. Secondly, the students are asked to visualize their stories as a movie. Below the star are points that represent the questions in the star.

Starpoints
1) Who are the characters?
2) Places story takes place
3) Most important event. Most important piece of the story that happened.
4) How did you feel when this happened?
5) What kind of change took place?
6) What’s the moral of your story?




Afterwards we had the students make six folders and save them in their documents:
Folders
Scripts
Pictures
Voice
Soundtrack
Projects
Videos
Once the students were done with their rough drafts, we got together and had them share their stories in a circle. I was truly blown away by these stories and I was very inspired. I will share more about the students along with pictures, videos and some stories in my next blog. I am signing off tonight, it has been an extremely long day. Thanks . Below are a couple pictures i took of the classroom and two of the students that I met.