Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

A must-read for incorporating digital literacy into your classroom!

As the saying goes, "If you want someone to remember something, tell them a story." But if you really want your students to remember what they learn, then let them create their own digital stories.

Digital storytelling empowers your students to be confident communicators and creators of media as they gain essential 21st-century literacy skills and reach deeper understandings in all areas of the curriculum. Aligned with refreshed ISTE and Common Core standards, this new edition of Digital Storytelling in the Classroom includes:

A world leader in digital storytelling and a lifelong digital humanist, author Jason Ohler opens the door to a new world of creative teaching and learning for you and your students. Praise for the first edition: "Ohler illuminates the very heart of learning and digital technology: storytelling. His is the story of how the networked computer amplifies our human capacity to learn through tools of expression." --Walter Bender, PresidentOne Laptop per Child Foundation

"Essential for integrating learning, literacy, and new media in and out of the classroom. Jason Ohler is a world leader in digital storytelling, and a master teacher, and a global communicator." --Bernard J. Luskin, Professor and Director of Media ProgramsFielding Graduate University

Table of contents provided by Syndetics

• Foreword(p. vii)
• Preface(p. ix)
• Acknowledgments(p. xvi)
• About the Author(p. xvii)
• Part I Storytelling, Education, and the New Media
• 1 Confessions of a Digital Storytelling Teacher: Twenty Revelations About Digital Storytelling in Education(p. 2)
• 2 Defining and Discussing Digital Storytelling: Helping Teachers See, Think, and Talk About Digital Storytelling(p. 16)
• 3 Digital Storytelling as an Educational Tool: Standards, Planning, and Literacy(p. 48)
• 4 Assessing Digital Stories: The Opportunities and Challenges of New Media Evaluation(p. 83)
• Part II The Art and Practice of Storytelling
• 5 Thinking About Story: The Story Core, Story Mapping, Story Types(p. 94)
• 6 Applying Story Maps, Using Story Tables: Seeing the Core, Mapping the Story, Creating a Story Table(p. 115)
• 7 Story Planning Considerations: Tips, Techniques, Lessons Learned(p. 127)
• 8 Transformation Formations: How We, and the Characters in Our Stories, Change(p. 139)
• 9 More Story Maps: From Aristotle to Present Day(p. 146)
• 10 Other Kinds of Stories: Other Story Forms and Story Perspectives(p. 158)
• Part III Going Digital
• 11 The Media Production Process, Phase I: Developing the Story(p. 172)
• 12 The Media Production Process, Phases II-V: From Preproduction to Performance(p. 191)
• 13 The Digital Storytelling Toolbox: The Tools Teachers and Students Need to Tell Digital Stories(p. 212)
• 14 Media Grammar for Teachers: Assessing Media Expression(p. 226)
• 15 Copyright, Fair Use, and UOPS: Living in the Gray Zone, Doing the Right Thing, and Protecting Yourself(p. 245)
• Epilogue: If I Had a Time Machine...(p. 260)
• Resource A Teaching Oral Storytelling(p. 262)
• Resource B Audio Techniques for Video Recording Oral Storytelling(p. 264)
• Resource C Audio Techniques for Interviewing People(p. 266)
• Resource D Freytag's Pyramid(p. 268)
• Resource E Grammar of Camera Angles(p. 270)
• Resource F What's Scannable?(p. 272)
• Resource G Joseph Campbell's Story Adventure Diagram(p. 273)
• Resource H Visual Portrait of a Story(p. 274)
• References and Further Readings(p. 276)
• Index(p. 279)