The digital age is predicated on the notion of student as producer (of knowledge) – as opposed to earlier education ages that appeared to position the student (only) as a consumer of knowledge. If helping your students to become digitally capable and proficient, why don’t you set students the challenge of making digital artefacts and/or telling digital stories? Here are some strategies for developing Digital Storytelling that we have used.
SEE: http://edtechteacher.org/tools/multimedia/digital-storytelling/ – for school examples to inspire and resource your own practice.
Join #ds106 and sign up to the teaching blog roll
DS106 – or digital storytelling 106 – started as a MOOC, massive open online course, which created an international community of practice of educationalists interested in developing their and their students’ digital capacities in engaging and dynamic ways. The tutors have curated the website and its tasks and resources so that it continues to act as a meeting point for digitally developing edu-cationalists. #DS106 has Quickstart Guides, Assignments, Handbooks and Daily Create challenges – and you can use them yourselves or require your students to use the resources to become more active and powerful in digital media. Tip: Sign your class up to #ds106 and enrol their blogs on the blog roll: http://ds106.us/teaching-ds106/
Design engaging assessments: Digital Artefacts
For certain assignments or parts of assignments, rather than writing an essay or report; require students to produce a digital artefact that sums up their learning – or to produce a teaching and learning resource that would convey learning about the key issues on the course. To assist with this we have built the AniMet Challenge: http://learning.londonmet.ac.uk/epacks/animation/ – please use it if you feel it would be useful.
Resources from our PLN
One way that we inspired our students to get digital was to show them the follow-ing digital artefacts – and then ask them to ‘Develop a Digital Me’. That is, we asked them to set their own short digital project where they used an artefact to tell a story about themselves or about studying. The final activity on the Project was that they had to design a Poster for an Exhibition that would showcase their learning.
Join in: Make an Artefact
Before you ask this of your students, why don’t you explore the following arte-facts. Choose one – and create a short ‘story’ about any aspect of learning, teaching or assessment that particularly intrigues or engages you. Post the link to your artefact in your blog – and add the link to the Comments part of this one!!
Terry Elliot’s Zeega: http://zeega.com/162387
#ccourses collaborative poem: https://titanpad.com/sXgaTJMniP
Alan Levine’s (cogdog) You Show project: http://cogdogblog.com/2014/12/15/you-show-show-notes/
Angela’s thinglink: http://www.thinglink.com/scene/360982057624535042#tlsite
Fran Monaghan’s VoiceThread – beautiful, gentle and a sort of low-tech, high-tech: http://voicethread.com/?#q.b4186028.i21377601
And Ess Garland’s timeline – and now for something completely different!
Theo Kuechel’s PinBoard – if an ‘essay’ is a form of curation about the learning on a course –this is a very different form of curation:
David Hopkins’ Prezi – brilliant images – excellently chosen clips! http://prezi.com/e9y6ipsovanb/digital-artefact-edcmooc/
And his whole blog on the topic: http://www.dontwasteyourtime.co.uk/elearning/digital-artefact-for-edcmooc-wk-5/
And from #edcmooc 3: https://storybird.com/books/what-may-be/
This is what our students produced when teaching themselves technology with the tools of their choice: http://learning.londonmet.ac.uk/epacks/posters-digital/ .
Have a look – explore the Posters and artefacts.
WE WERE VERY PROUD OF THEM!
Resources for the Future
Alan Levine is one of the leading lights of #ds106 and has curated these didacti-cal tools for developing our practice and our competences:
And here is Alan Levine’s older iteration of that site: http://cogdogroo.wikispaces.com/StoryTools