CUIN 7358 Linked with ELED 7325

College of Education
Dept. of Curriculum & Instruction
Instructional Technology Program

CUIN 7358:
Educational Uses of Digital Photography
& Digital Storytelling

fall 2008

This course is linked with ELED 7325: History & Development
of Early Childhood Literature

October 20, 2008: Class Eight Course Blog Student Blogs return to main page

Topics for Class Eight:

Review Assignments from Previous Classes
Creating a Storyboard

Assignments for Next Class:
* Reading Assignments
* Hands-On Assignment 8
* Blog Assignment 8

Review Assignments from Last Class

Hands-On Assignment

For this week's hands-on assignment, you should write a first version of the script or outline on the topic you will be using for your final semester digital story project and post it to your personal blog.

Blog Assignment

The blog assignment for this week is to provide online feedback to two different students regarding the first draft they posted to their personal blog.

The way this will work is that the class has been split into three groups, each containing three students. You should provide feedback on the posting of the two other students in your group and those two other students will provide feedback on your posting. The three groups are as follows:

Group One	Group Two	Group Three
Annie http://altsui.blogspot.com/ Tricia http://triciamdblog.blogspot.com/ John http://pippashubby.blogspot.com/	Shaunna http://shaunna-cuin7358.blogspot.com/ Theresa http://thresa-class.blogspot.com/ Matt M. http://talktomcconn.blogspot.com/	Dawn http://dawnwestfall.blogspot.com/ Margaret http://grithale.blogspot.com Matt W. http://smwarford.blogspot.com/

In your feedback, please ask any questions or make suggestions regarding material that is unclear and try to add any other information you think will be helpful in developing the digital story.

Creating a Storyboard

For some, storyboarding may seem like a hassle, or a tedious extra step in the process of creating a digital photo essay, digital story or informational website. However, storyboarding can be a valuable step in the creative process by allowing the developer to organize images and text before in a blueprint fashion before the actual development begins. It allows the user to visualize how the project will be put together and what holes exist since they can see the entire plan laid out in front of them. Storyboarding can also inspire new ideas as well as rearrange existing resources before the final development begins and changes may be harder to make.

Below is an early version of storyboard that shows how a photo story might be created on the topic of online game addiction. These sample pictures were found online, however, for the final project, you will need to take some of the pictures yourself. But you could also supplement your project with some pictures you find other places, such as on the web using images search tools like Google or Yahoo, as well as scanning some images from books, magazines, or newspapers.

Example of an Early Visual Storyboard: Video Game Addiction

Patient in a counseling session

Doctor in a medical library

Doctor using a computer

Group therapy session

Screenshots of online computer games

Photos of people playing games

Pictures of equipment game players use

Devices, such as cell phones, that people don’t usually think of as gaming devices

Pictures of game boxes, such as displays in a store

Pictures of Gaming magazines

Charts that you create to show how games work

Charts with statistics about game use

Photos of kids playing games

And a humorous image that could be used at the end of the story

Tutorial: Creating a Storyboard in Microsoft Word
http://digitalstorytelling.coe.uh.edu/pdfs/inword.pdf

Storyboard Created with Excel

	Sounds	Images	Text of narration
1	Instrumental: cash4trash	Use it up
2	Nar1	Montage of Maps and Names 17sec	In the last 6 decades, America has been involved in a variety of armed conflicts. Some have been short and quickly forgotten. Others have been costly, long, and emotionally devastating to the nation. Yet none have required large-scale economic sacrifices. This makes it difficult for most of our population to image the willingness of the nation to do without during the Second World War.
3	Nar2	30s movie 19 sec	65 years doesn’t seem like a lot of time, but our country in the early 1940s and the people in it may as well have existed in a parallel universe, so different were the circumstances of everyday life.
4	Nar3	Depression Pictures	As1941 drew to a close, we were just beginning to dig ourselves out of the most severe and longest-lasting depression ever experienced in the Western World.
5	Nar4	Military pictures	Our military was pared to the bone and undersupplied.
5	Nar4	Rosy the Riveter	Our manufacturing sectors were only beginning to gear up after years of low production.
6		Pearl Harbor pictures	[Pearl Harbor announcement].
7	Nar5	Map of war zones	Then, suddenly, we were at war—not only in the Pacific, but in Europe, as well
8	Nar6	posters	Vital components of the war effort such as rubber, silk and nylon; as well as staples of the American diet like sugar and coffee were suddenly in short supply.
9		Poster—use it up	And a nation that was just beginning to once again enjoy the fruits of economic prosperity was suddenly asked to “use it up, wear it out, and make it do.” On the upside, they had had a lot of practice.
10	Essentials	poster
11		Record Label	Aunt Mary Lou sings we did it before
12	Nar7	We can do it	For the most part, American citizens fell behind the war effort with enthusiasm.
12	Nar7	poster	They were incensed by the sneak attack on American soil and willing to do whatever it took to keep the war machine well supplied and productive.
13	Nar8	Boy with Pans	Scrap drives were common place, and often used children as the primary collectors.
13	Nar8	Children scrap drive pictures	This not only freed adults for more burdensome tasks, but allowed children to feel that they could do something toward the war effort—thereby helping to calm their fears and give them a focus.
14	Nar9	Posters	The population was extorted to turn in scrap, including the all important rubber and metal, but also paper, wood and even unused cooking fats.
15	Sound Clip	song clip with posters
16	Nar10	Inflation graph	World War I had seen rampant inflation as supplies had dwindled. In an effort to keep a similar problem from occurring during WWII, the federal government began rationing supplies almost immediately.
17	Nar11	Ration board/ OPA/sugar make it stretch	Across the country, over 8000 rationing boards were created. The office of Price Administration (OPA) froze prices on almost all consumer goods, starting with sugar and coffee.
18	Nar12	Posters	The first things to be rationed were items made of rubber, and gasoline. Japan had annexed many of the American sources of rubber. Just when the supply was needed the most for war production, there was very little to be had.
19	Sound clip	Posters
20	Nar13	Poster	Gas rationing, though stringent, was less about shortages of the fuel, and more about keeping precious tires from wearing out.
21	Nar14	Picture of family sitting around the radio	Throughout the war, citizens at home were urged to conserve and make do. The messages were everywhere—in the newspapers, the post office, and, of course, the radio.

Click here to download the Excel File Example Above

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Click here to download the Blank Excel Storyboard Template

Additional Storyboard Resources:

Blank Storyboard Template 1

Blank Storyboard Template 2

Blank Storyboard Template 3

Index Card Storyboard Example
http://www2.hawaii.edu/~ricky/etec/example.html

Creating a Storyboard for Video Production
http://www2.hawaii.edu/~ricky/etec/sboardtemplate.html

Celtx Media Pre-Production Software for Film/Theatre/Radio/Animation/and AV may also be used to create storyboards

You can download this free program from: http://celtx.com/download.html

When you run the program, you should click on the Storyboard link.

You will then be able to add images and text descriptions.

A video about how the program works is online at:
http://celtx.com/walkthru/storyBoard.html

A recent storyboard created with Celtx may be viewed at:
http://pc.celtx.com/project/MVYEZLMK9HC6

Screen Capture with SnagIt

SnagIt is a popular and easy to use software program for capturing, or taking a snapshop of what's on your computer screen. This screen capture program is what I use to create many of the pictures that are included on these class web pages.

Here is a brief tutorial on how to perform screen captures with SnagIt. Your version may look slightly different than the screens represented here.

Setting the Preferences

1. First, setup your preferences in your program by using the following options:

choose the 'Tools' menu > Select 'Program Preferences' >

In the 'hotkeys' tab> select your keys for capturing screens. As you can see below, the hotkey configuration by default is set to use the following keys in sequence:

Ctrl and Shift and P

Selecting Input and Output Formats

Under the Capture menu you will see various options that allow you to define the input for your screen capture. You can choose 'region' if you wish to control the size of the screen you want to capture. 'Fixed Region' allows you to capture a predefined rectangle.

In the output area, you can select the output of your screen capture to go to a number of sources such as a file, a printer or a catalog. SnagIt saves only bitmap files in a catalog. If you are doing screen captures for the web, and want to save it by default to a gif or jpeg format, choose the 'properties' in the output tab and choose the default file format for your files.

Capturing Screens

Once you have your settings in place, select the image capture option, and use the hotkeys (ctrl+shift+p in this case). Your mouse will turn into a hand and that holds a rectangle. Hold your mouse down and drag to get the area of the screen that you want to capture. Let go of the mouse when you are done. The program should ask you for a location where you want the file saved.

Snag-It 9

Download 30-day trial version of Snag-It 9
http://www.techsmith.com/download/snagittrial.asp

Tutorials from SnagIt
http://www.techsmith.com/learn/snagit/getting-started/default.asp

Purchase SnagIt
$49.95
http://www.techsmith.com/snagit.asp

Assignments for Next Class:

Reading Assignments:

Review the material listed on the Class 8 webpage then explore the following:

Chapter 4: Storyboarding from the Digital Storytelling Cookbook, pages 26 - 30.
http://www.storycenter.org/cookbook.pdf

Hands-On Assignment 8:

For this week's hands-on assignment, you should create a storyboard on the popular culture topic you will be using for your final semester digital story project. If you create your storyboard on the computer, you should email your storyboard to Dr. Robin at: brobin@uh.edu or post a comment on your personal blog in which you provide a link to an online location where the storyboard file can be viewed and downloaded.

If you choose to create a paper-based storyboard, you should bring a copy of the storyboard with you to class next week.

Blog Assignment 8:

Post a comment on the course discussion blog related to the storyboard you are creating for next week. In your posting, you may also discuss any other aspect related to your digital story, such as describing the progress of your work, discussing challenges you faced as well as comment or ask questions about your work on this week's storyboard assignment.

Instructor: Bernard Robin