Digital Games and Story Telling

Digital Games And Story Telling

Digital storytelling empowers students to be confident communicators and creators of media as they gain essential 21st-century literacy skills and reach deeper understanding in all areas of the curriculum.

Course Details

Digital storytelling in video game design refers to production elements, such as audio, video and animation, but it also refers to storytelling elements, such as universal themes, symbols and narratives. Digital storytelling uses media production and film techniques to create plot lines, events, characters and conclusions of video games. Modern video games enhance the user’s experience through greater interactivity and impressive multimedia content.

Digital storytelling empowers students to be confident communicators and creators of media as they gain essential 21st-century literacy skills and reach deeper understanding in all areas of the curriculum.

This technique is a combination of the old storytelling tradition and new technology. With increasing availability of computerized devices in schools, various forms of digital media production have become quite common as approaches to learning.

Although the concept of digital storytelling is closely linked to the use of new technology, we shouldn't forget that it is always the story and not the technology that teachers should focus on. We should merge the digital skills with the literate education; this is where teachers still have a role to play, even in the digital age. Educators at all levels can use Digital Storytelling in many ways, from introducing new material, to helping students learn to conduct research, synthesize large amounts of content and gain expertise in the use of digital communication and authoring tools. It also can help students organize these ideas as they learn to create stories for an audience, and present their ideas and knowledge in an individual and meaningful way.

Course Objectives

To Create a digital story for use as an anticipatory set or hook for a lesson;
To Enhance current lesson plans with the use of a digital story within a unit
To Assign student-created stories which requires students to research a topic from a particular point of view
To use the Internet to research rich, deep content while analyzing and synthesizing a wide range of content
To Develop communication skills
To Increase computer skills using software that combines a variety of multimedia including: text, still images, audio, video and web publishing
To Appeal to the diverse learning styles of students by using Digital Storytelling as a presentation media
To Generate interest, attention and motivation for the "digital generation" kids in our classrooms;
To Capitalize on the creative talents of your own students as they begin to research and tell stories of their own
To Publish student work on the Internet for viewing and critiquing by others
To Promote the accomplishment of cross-curricular academic standards and learning objectives

Programme

1st DAY

Welcome/Ice breaking activities
What is Dıgıtal Games and Story-Telling?
Why is it important in Educatıon?
What makes a good story?
On screen. Analysis of content
Audience/ target
Building the basis. Audiovisual language, Format, composition of the image

2nd DAY

How Do We Tell Stories?
Formats of Storytelling
What Are Stories About? The Content of Stories
Why Do We Tell Stories? Functional Storytelling
Camera technique (movement)
Set, lights ad sound

3rd DAY

A general look to digital storytelling process
A general look to digital game
Types of online educational game
Writing stage
The screenplay stage
Creating a storyboard
Creating the digital story

4th DAY

Choosing a Topic and Defining your Purposes
Writing an Effective Script
How you can record audio narration that will be used in your digital story. We will examine some of the most common types of microphones and recording devices that you can use to record the script you wrote. We
How to assemble all of the elements (text, images, narration, and if you choose, music and/or video clips) to create the final version of your digital story