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Topics for Class Four:
Review Assignments
from Class 3
In-Class Activity 1: Scanning Images
In-Class Activity 2: Creating a Practice Digital Story
Assignments for Next Class:
* Reading Assignments
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Blog Assignments
* Hands-On
Assignment 4
Review Assignments
from Class Three
Blog Assignment
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For this week's hands-on assignment, you should use any image
editing program of your choice and edit several images you took
with your digital camera. Then, upload at least 2 pairs of
before and after images, that is both the unedited picture and
the edited version, to your personal blog. Be sure to include
information about which editing program you used and discuss
what edits you made to the images.
Hands-On Assignment
3:
Post your mini-review of the online image editing software
program listed above. As we discussed in class, you should try
to review the web-based program where your name appears,
however, if that program is not available or you have other
issues, you may select another resource form the list to
evaluate. Your review should include the following information:
* the name and web address of the program you are evaluating
* which editing features you used
* did the program perform as expected
* was the program easy to use
* did you experience any problems using the program
* would you use this program again and/or would you recommend
this program to others
* do you have any other comments you think would be helpful
Scanners
CanoScan LiDE 25 Scanner
Approximate cost: $50
http://www.usa.canon.com/consumer/controller?act=ModelInfoAct&fcategoryid=119&modelid=11463
Reviews from
PriceGrabber.com
http://reviews.pricegrabber.com/scanners/m/9328428/
LiDE2560quickstartguide-e.pdf
Driver for Windows XP
CanoScan LiDE 50 Scanner
Older model, no longer available for purchasae
http://www.usa.canon.com/consumer/controller?act=ModelInfoAct&fcategoryid=119&modelid=8052
Review from CNET
http://reviews.cnet.com/scanners/canon-canoscan-lide-50/4505-3136_7-20536585.html
LiDE50quickstartguide-e.pdf
Driver for Windows XP
CanoScan Toolbox Software
Some of the best web resources I've found that deal with
graphics scanners are online at:
Scanners - from Curtin's Guide to Digital Cameras
http://www.shortcourses.com/guide/guide1-5.html
Scanning Basics 101
http://www.scantips.com/
We also have a Minolta DiMAGE
Scan Dual III scanner that can be sued to digitize 35mm slides
as well as black& white and color negative film. More
information about this scanner may be found online at:
http://www.imaging-resource.com/SCAN/DSEIII/DSEIIIA.HTM
More info:
http://www.steves-digicams.com/2002_reviews/minolta_dsd3.html
Scanning Objects (that are small enough to fit on a scanner)
The same flatbed scanner that can be used to scan photos can
also be used to scan small 3-dimensional objects. Below are
several items that were placed on the scanner and then cropped
and adjusted in Photoshop Elements.
Below are some resources related to scanning objects:
Ability of Flatbed Scanners to Photograph Many 3-Dimensional
Objects
http://www.flatbed-scanner-review.org/Linotype-Hell_flatbed_scanner/scanning_3-D_objects_mushr.html
Scanning Botanical Specimens: John Grant Studios
http://johngrantstudios.com/
Flower Power- John Grant combines technology with the everyday
gifts of nature to make magical images
http://magazine.clas.virginia.edu/x8592.xml
Creating High-Quality Botanical Illustrations by Using a Flatbed
Scanner and Adobe Photoshop
http://www.blm.gov/nstc/resourcenotes/respdf/RN59.pdf
Introduction to
Digital Storytelling
What is
Digital Storytelling?
Combining the art of telling stories with:
* a mixture of digital graphics, text,
recorded audio narration;
* video and music to present information on a
specific topic;
* revolving around a theme and often
containing a particular viewpoint;
* to create stories that are typically between
2 and 10 minutes long.
Joe
Lambert helped Digital Storytelling get off the ground as the
co-founder of the
Center for
Digital Storytelling (CDS), a non-profit, community arts
organization in Berkeley, California. Since the early 1990s,
Lambert and the CDS have provided training and assistance to
people interested in creating and sharing their personal
narratives.
Personal narratives may be told in a variety of different ways,
as described by the CDS:
Character Stories –
explore how we love, who we are inspired by, and the
importance of finding meaning in our relationships.
Memorial Stories –
deal with memories of people who are no longer with us.
These stories are often difficult but are emotionally
powerful and can help with the grieving process.
Stories about Events in
Our Lives - deal with significant occurrences that we
remember and want to share.
Adventure Stories –
revolve around places we visit and adventures we have in our
travels.
Accomplishment Stories
– deal with achieving goals and understanding defining
moments in our lives.
Stories about Places in
Our Lives – examine the important places in our lives:
our homes, our towns, and our experiences that connect us to
our communities.
Stories about What We
Do – allow us to talk about our jobs, professions and
careers in terms of how we value and find meaning in the
work we do.
Recovery Stories –
deal with how we overcome great obstacles and challenges in
our lives.
The Unexpected
http://www.bbc.co.uk/wales/digitalstorytelling/sites/yale/pages/brian-jones.shtml
The Texas Association
Against Sexual Assault’s award-winning "Speak up.
Speak out." public awareness campaign, in collaboration
with the Center
for Digital Storytelling provided training in
digital storytelling to a group of survivors of sexual
assault in Texas. The courageous stories they produced
are available for viewing at:
http://www.taasa.org/latest_news/article02012006.php
Love Stories –
provide us with an opportunity to share some of the most
meaningful parts of our lives with the people we most
cherish.
Discovery Stories –
let us reflect on what we have learned and illustrate our
journeys of discovery.
The CDS is also known for developing and disseminating the Seven
Elements of Digital Storytelling, which is often cited as a
useful starting point to begin working with digital stories.
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The Seven Elements
of Digital Storytelling |
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1. Point of View
– what is the perspective of the author? |
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2. A Dramatic
Question – a question that will be answered by
the end of the story. |
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3. Emotional
Content – serious issues that speak to us in a
personal and powerful way. |
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4. The Gift of
your Voice – a way to personalize the story to
help the audience understand the context. |
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5. The Power of
the Soundtrack – music or other sounds that
support the storyline. |
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6. Economy –
simply put, using just enough content to tell the
story without overloading the viewer with too much
information. |
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7. Pacing –
related to Economy, but specifically deals with how
slowly or quickly the story progresses. |
Educational Uses of Digital Storytelling
Website
http://www.coe.uh.edu/digital-storytelling/
Many digital stories found in the Examples section of the Educational Uses of
Digital Storytelling website are based on personal experiences related to
people, places and events, including the following:
Almost Paradise
Coming to Houston
The Computer and I
My Mama
However, this digital
storytelling can also be a powerful technology tool that educators and their
students can use to present other instructional material, such as:
Examining Historical
Themes and Events
•The
Gettysburg Address
Race to the Moon
The Holocaust
Hiroshima
Delivering
instructional content on many different topics, including math, science,
language arts, religion, health & medicine, and more.
Aging Well
Geometry, Art & Architecture
Pinhole Cameras
Zen Buddhism
Digital Stories
created by students in this course on various Popular Culture topics:
A Day without Math
Cell Phones and Pop Culture
Food and Waste
The World of My Daughter
Tutorials from the Educational Uses of Digital Storytelling
Website (Under the Create menu)
http://www.coe.uh.edu/digital-storytelling/
Download the free Microsoft Photo Story 3 Software for
Windows XP
http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/using/digitalphotography/photostory/default.mspx
Photo Story 3 Tutorial
http://digitalstorytelling.coe.uh.edu/pdfs/PhotoStoryTutorial.pdf
Customizing Motion in Photo Story 3
http://digitalstorytelling.coe.uh.edu/pdfs/customizing_motion.pdf
Previewing your Work in Photo Story 3
http://digitalstorytelling.coe.uh.edu/pdfs/previewing.pdf
Saving a Project in Photo Story 3
http://digitalstorytelling.coe.uh.edu/pdfs/saving-PS3-project.pdf
Additional
Resources
Scanning 101: A Few Scanning Tips
http://www.scantips.com/
Scanning 201: A Simple Way to Get Better Scans
http://www.scantips.com/simple.html
How to Scan Using Photoshop Elements
http://cel.colgate.edu/howto/scan/hp_photoelements_pc/default.htm
Photo Story 3 for Windows Online Resources
http://www.bama.ua.edu/~rmayben/tim/photo3.htm
Photo Story Lesson
photostory-lesson.pdf
Marc Coffman's Beginner's Guide to Photo
Story:
Multichannel, Compressive, and Experimental: Digital
Storytelling in the Culture and History Classroom
https://www8.georgetown.edu/centers/cndls/applications/posterTool/index.cfm?fuseaction=poster.display&posterID=121
Assignments for Next Class:
Reading Assignments
Read:
A Multilevel Approach to Using Digital Storytelling in the
Classroom (2005)
http://www.coe.uh.edu/digital-storytelling/course/SITE2005-article.htm
The Educational Uses of Digital Storytelling (2006)
http://fp.coe.uh.edu/brobin/homepage/Educaional-Uses-DS.pdf
The Convergence of Digital Storytelling and Popular Culture
in Graduate Education (2007)
http://fp.coe.uh.edu/brobin/homepage/DS-Pop-Culture.pdf
Digital Storytelling Finds its Place in the Classroom
http://www.infotoday.com/MMSchools/jan02/banaszewski.htm
Review:
The Art of Digital Storytelling
http://digitales.us/files/digitalstorytellingarticle.pdf
Getting a Picture into Photoshop Elements
http://fhdafiles.fhda.edu/downloads/training/elements.pdf
Hands-On Assignment 4:
For this week's hands-on assignment, you should create a
personal digital story without narration using Photo Story 3, or
another program of your choice. This initial photo story should
contain a minimum of 10 images and no audio. Here are the steps
you should follow if you are just starting out using Photo Story
software:
* Select the images you would like to use for your digital
story. Place them all in a folder on your computer.
* Launch the Photo Story 3 software and select Begin a new
story.
* Next, import the images you want to use into Photo Story.
* Modify the image order, if necessary, by clicking and dragging
the image thumbnails in the timeline.
* Use the Edit feature to modify images and/or add any visual
effects.
* When you click Next, you may see a message that states that
some or all of your images have black borders. Determine whether
the black borders should be removed or left the way they are.
* Decide if text should be used over an image (such as for a
title slide), or if text slides should be created separately and
imported into the timeline.
* For this exercise, adding audio is optional, meaning you may
add and/or record audio if you want to, or leave it out for the
time being. We will cover adding audio in next week's class.
* Determine what type of motion (panning and zooming) you want
for each image and how how long each image should stay on the
screen. Make adjustments to the motion and duration of your
images by selecting Customize Motion.
* You should also decide whether or not you want to modify the
transitions that occur between images.
* For this exercise, you do not need to add any music to your
story and we will explore this feature in more detail in next
week's class. However, you may add music if you like.
* Remember to save your project file often. This file will have
the file extension: .wp3.
* You should use the default settings to finalize your digital
story, and this will save it as a Windows Media Video (.wmv)
file.
When you have created the .wmv
file, you should upload it to any online site where it will be
accessible. If you don't already have an online location, you
can upload your file to
YouTube or
Google's free Picasa Web Albums (where you get 1 GB of
space).
A tutorial on uploading your video to YouTube and embedding
the link in your blog is located at:
http://courses.coe.uh.edu/brobin/resources/upload-videos/upload-videos.htm
Blog
Assignment 4:
For this assignment, go to
your personal blog and post
a message in which you first include the URL of the video file you
created for this week's hands-on assignment, and then post any
questions or comments you have about the process you went
through in completing this work.
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