Presenters
School Community Architect
Dr. Marialice B.F.X. Curran is the Founder and Executive Director of the Digital Citizenship Institute. Her advanced graduate and doctoral studies on adolescent development at Boston College reinforced her commitment to service learning as Dr. Curran leads by hand, heart and mind. As a mother and a connected educator, she has served as an associate professor, middle school teacher, principal and library media specialist.
Author | Speaker | Consultant
Jaime Donally is a passionate technology enthusiast. She began her career as a math teacher and later moved into instructional technology. Her desire to build relationships has created opportunities to collaborate with students and educators around the world. She provides staff development and training on immersive technology as an edtech consultant, and her latest adventures include Global Maker Day and #ARVRinEDU events. She’s also an author and speaker on the practical use of augmented reality and virtual reality in the classroom.
Charlie Fitzpatrick has been K12 Education Manager for Esri, makers of GIS software, since 1992. In this role, he works with K12 students, teachers, and leaders of education and policy in schools, districts, and states, helping them grasp why and how to take advantage of Esri's offer of software and learning resources free to K12 schools for instructional use. Prior to Esri, Charlie taught social studies in grades 7-12 for 15 years, mostly 8th grade geography.
Author, Speaker, Consultant
Michael is an award-winning teacher and international speaker whose work focuses on digital storytelling, project-based learning, and social justice. His published work addresses student voice and the intersection of education and social policy. His podcast and newsletter, Change The Narrative, have found subscribers around the world. His upcoming book, “Storytelling With Purpose,” published by ISTE, arrives this fall. He is an Apple Distinguished Educator, Adobe Education Leader, and National Geographic/Lindblad Expeditions Grosvenor Teacher Fellow.
Follow him on Twitter: @cinehead and Instagram: @changing.the.narrative www.michael-hernandez.net
Professional Development. Gifted Ed, Tech Integration, Regular Ed
Julie Jaeger, PD Coach/Consultant, Veteran Elem-MS educator, Tech Integrator, and Gifted Instructor, enjoys bringing "a-ha" moments and higher order thinking via Tech Integration, Differentiated Instruction, Digital StoryTelling, and Curriculum Enrichment using Critical Creative Thinking, Problem Solving, and Questioning. Authored "I-imagine Dares Students to be Their Best Selves" (ISTE Learning and Leading, June/July 2013) and received the 2016 Digital StoryTelling Creativity Leadership Award. Currently ISTE Community Leader and ND Association for Gifted Children Board member. Former Chair of the ISTE Digital StoryTelling Network. Holds an MS in Education with Technology Integration and Credential in Gifted Education.
Executive Director/Educator
Melody McAllister is a mom of five, educator, and social media support/community facilitator for SpacesEDU, Alicke Keeler Teacher Tech, and EduMatch Publishing. She is an author of the I'm Sorry Story. Her Growth Over Grades Podcast features educators who are making changes in education. She also hosts a live, weekly bookchat for educator/authors and co-hosts Thrive O'Clock, a weekly LIVE broadcast, with Educator Rachelle Dene Poth.
I am the Instructional Media/Technology/CTE-STEM Teacher at Aurora Frontier P-8 in Aurora Colorado and an educator for 30 years. I am part of the ISTE Community Leader and In 2019 she became an ISTE Certified educator.
I have presented at ISTE: 2010-2022. Colorado InnEdCo conferences: 2010-2022. Recognitions: ISTE Certified Educator, InnEdCO Ambassador, 2020 ISTE Digitial Storytelling Network Creativity and Leadership Award Winner, Microsoft Innovative Educator, Microsoft Certified Teacher, Google Level 1 & 2 Certified Teacher, Certified Google Teacher Leader, IBM AI Certified Educator, Adobe Certified Educator, EdPuzzle Certified Educator, FlipGrid Certified Educator.
Script Supervisor/Production Manager
PiePie Productions
Instructional TechnologyCoach
Daniel is in his 8th year as an instructional technology coach. Previously a math teacher and VSTE teacher of the year award winner, Daniel‘s focus now has largely been on the implementation of teacher tools in the classroom to change how students have access to and are assessed on content objectives. Finding ways for students to become content creators as a means of displaying their course knowledge has been an increased item of focus. Areas of concentration and expertise include: Khan Academy Ambassador, Common Sense Ambassador, Nearpod Certified Educator, Edpuzzle Certified Coach, Flipgrid Certified, & Google Certified Educator.
As a middle school teacher for 18 years and a California Teacher of the Year (2014), Jessica has continually worked to redefine what learning looks like in her classroom. An ISTE author, Jessica's book, Moviemaking in the Classroom. She is an advocate for student choice and voice, as demonstrated by the original content her students regularly publish for a global audience. Jessica spent over a decade as a professional development instructor and Consulting Teacher for a digital storytelling non-profit, and co-hosts the Storytelling Saves the World podcast. She is an ISTE Community Leader and The Edge podcast co-host.
Georgia Terlaje has taught for 34 years and is currently and instructional coach for Palm Springs Unified. She has used digital storytelling as an instructional strategy for 12 years and has presented on the topic at both regional and national conferences. She was also instrumental in creating PSUSD’s first elementary film festival that is now in it’s 4th year. Georgia is also a teacher-consultant for DIGICOM Learning. In this role, she is a lead instructor for professional development courses for teachers in the area of digital storytelling. Georgia has a digital storytelling podcast, “Storytelling Saves the World”.
Student Success Coordinator
Mr. Billy is the technology coach at Colgan HS.His career began as a special education teacher at PACE West School, followed as the instructional technology coach at Ellis Elementary School, and opened Colgan High School, a school with a fine and performing arts specialty program. Mr. Watts is passionate about mentoring students to build healthy relationships, developing student voice through digital communication, and working with educators to connect the classroom to impact in the outside world. He is a giant AV nerd and does a decent Cookie Monster impression.
Session description
Discover and explore numerous genres digital storytelling. Projects like book trailers, public service announcements, nonfiction narrative docudramas, podcasts, vision videos and numerous curricular applications will be reviewed and examples shared. We'll break into guided work groups to dig deeper and experience the design process of storyTelling done digitally.
Purpose & objective
Digital Storytelling Forum Topic Descriptions at: https://bit.ly/3OCc9LE
Participants will become familiar with multiple genre of Digital StoryTelling, their curricular applications and how to integrate them into curricular areas. Participants will engage in the process of creating story, design storyboard/plan for production, and begin the production process. The processes being shared are tool agnostic and able to be created on multiple devices and in numerous formats making it equitable and available to diverse needs.
Objectives:
• Elements of good storytelling will be woven in throughout the session and pointed out within each area.
• Introduce and share information and examples of each genre
•Show how the process can be done in many different formats allowing the process to work with whatever technology is available. Special attention will be on formats that are free to use and accessible on multiple devices to make the process equitable and available to any group of learners.
• Provide participants time to experience each genre as they move between working groups, explore and dig deeper into areas of interest.
• Provide Resources lists, Teacher Guides and Planning templates will for each genre discussed.
• Participants will leave with numerous cross curricular applications and access to multiple resources and information to help them get started with the process.
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Outline
Digital Storytelling Forum Topic Descriptions at: https://bit.ly/3OCc9LE
We will begin with an Introduction of Topic, Presenter and Agenda/Process and access to session resources. Attendees will then move to topics of their choice to engage in conversations and learn from our amazing presenters.
Topics Covered include:
NonFiction Narratives: Stories Found Everywhere! Gwynn Moore
Elevate Thinking: Power of Imagery to Express Student Voice in Book Trailers, PSA's, and 6 Word Memoirs Julie Jaeger
Using Explainer Videos for Assessment Michael Hernandez
Podcasts to Reshape Student Voice Dan Nemerow and William Watts
Words Have Power: Two Great Narrative Movie Making Projects Jessica Pack and Georgia Telaje
StoryMapping for StoryTelling Immersive Stories Using Maps Charlie Fitzpatrick and Tom Baker
Immersive StoryTelling with AR/VR Jaime Donally
Publishing Student Work formats for Students to Share their Stories Melody McAllister
Power of Storyboarding to Translate Text to Production Roe Moore
Impact Stories: Seeing the Human Sitting Next to You, Around the World and Across the Screen Dr Marialice Curran
Getting Started With StoryTelling - Gallery Walk of tips, tricks, and examples
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Supporting research
Bernajean Porter: The Art of Digital StoryTelling www.digitales.us "Digital Storytelling Across the Curriculum | Creative Educator." 2008. 27 Sep. 2015
The Power of Digital Storytelling to Support Teaching and Learning, Bernard R. Robin, University of Houston, USA, Digital Education Review - Number 30, December 2016- http://greav.ub.edu/der/ https://files.eric.ed.gov/fulltext/EJ1125504.pdf
Educational Uses of Digital StoryTelling, Bernard Robin, Ph.D.. University of Houston, College of Education https://digitalstorytelling.coe.uh.edu/page.cfm?id=27&cid=27&sublinkid=30
The Power of Storytelling and How it Affects Your Brain, by Micheal Heffernen, Feb 23, 2017, https://talesfortadpoles.ie/blogs/news/the-power-of-storytelling-and-how-it-affects-your-brain
Ohler, Jason B. Digital storytelling in the classroom: New media pathways to literacy, learning, and creativity. Corwin Press, 2013 Sessoms, Diallo, “Stories keep memories alive. Your life stories as well as your family’s stories about he most memorable life experiences are worth preserving.”
Paige Baggett: Educational Uses of Digital StoryTelling http://digitalstorytelling.coe.uh.edu/view_story.cfm?vid=318&otherid=featured&d_title=Featured%20Digital%20Stories When students are engaged in the process of creating a digital story, they must synthesize a variety of literacy skills for hte authentic product: researching, writing, organizing, presenting, interviewing, problem-solvin, assessing, as well as employ8ing interpersonal and technology skills.
Merilee Sprenger: How to Teach so Students Remember Brain research shows us that learning needs connections, memories, something to stick to. Stories create memories and connections that influence memory. ....understanding of the brain structures that influence memory, and learn how teachers can promote better recall for daily classroom learning, high-stakes tests, and beyond.
Top three levels of Benjamin Blooms Taxonomy revised (Anderson, Krathwohl 2001) look at elevated thinking as analyzing, evaluating and creating which are essential parts of the decision making StoryBoard Phase of the Digital StoryTelling process. Use of verbs instead of nouns puts Blooms into action which is exactly what the Storyboard is...the action and planning behind the product.
Anderson/Krathwohl The Second Principal http://thesecondprinciple.com/teaching-essentials/beyond-bloom-cognitive-taxonomy-revised/ Krathwohl
A Revision of Blooms http://www.unco.edu/cetl/sir/stating_outcome/documents/krathwohl.pdf. (Zak, Why Your Brain Loves a Good Story 2014)
Digital StoryTelling requires intention and meaning making. Understanding the essence of story and its ability to make meaning happen for all is at the heart of Digital StoryTelling. The media is not what is important...the story is!! “If you can harness imagination and the principles of a well-told story, then you get people rising to their feet amid thunderous applause instead of yawning and ignoring you.” (Harvard Business Review, Storytelling That Moves People, Fryer, 2003
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