Brains-On-Stories+Workshop

Brains-on-Stories ~ The Power and Impact of Narrative Storytelling in a Digital Age
"//The idea of combining data, emotion and empathy as part of a narrative is something every leader and organization has to internalize as an essential communication skill. If they don’t, they will find themselves on the wrong side of history//.” ~ Om Malik

**Agenda [[image:Steps and Purpose.017.jpg width="480" height="360" align="right"]]**

 * Opening - Chat Room a la TodaysMeet
 * A Story ~ A Story
 * Got Story or NOT? Distinguishing between MultiMedia Stories and Digital Storytelling
 * Understanding the Science of Power StoryTelling
 * Using **Seven Steps to Media Making**
 * Group Task ~ Finding a Story - StoryJamming
 * Understanding the Role of StoryTelling as a Communication Form Moving Data to Enduring Understandings [[|Toxic Joe]]
 * Group Task ~ Creating a StoryARC
 * Process: Defining and Applying //**Take Six: Elements of a Good Story**//
 * Group Task ~ Creating an Emotional ARC [Living in the Story]
 * Role of StoryBoarding as a "Rosetta Stone"
 * Craftsmanship ~ Creating Artistic Experiences [Images and Sound]
 * Group Task ~ Storyboarding: Passing the GREEN Light Test
 * Applied StoryTelling ~ Making Classsroom Connections with Digital Storytelling
 * Creativity ~ Tools Options and Techniques to Ensure ILLUMINATING Media Making
 * <span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif;">Group Process ~ Project Time for Media Making
 * <span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif;">ShowTime ~ Applause! Applause!
 * <span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif;">Closing Debriefing

Today's Tools for Processes

 * **Chat Room a la TodaysMeet** [**[|Click Here]**]
 * **Video Production Option**: Creating Paper Slide Videos [**Click Here**]
 * **Video Production Option:** Creating Table Top Green Screen **[[|Click Here for VoiceThread Viewing]**]

• FIRST Day Resource Requests

 * • Creating EASY QR Codes [[|Click Here]]**
 * • View a MS Machinima a la Second Life [[|Click Here]]**
 * • Sound Recording Booth [[|Click Here]]**

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• **Ideas for Creative STILL Images Click Here]**
 * • View a iAnimate's Student Compilation RealShow [[|Click Here]]**
 * • View Animation Chefs [kids teaching kids] Rwanda Project [[|Click Here]]**
 * • Creating GREAT VoiceOvers [[|Click Here]]**
 * • iPad Storytelling APPS Click Here]**
 * • Teleprompter Lite APP [[|Click Here]]**
 * • Dictation Voice to TEXT using Google Chrome [[|Click Here]]**

PDF Handouts

 * **1. Creating a StoryARC** || [[file:Creating Classical Story ARC.pdf]] ||
 * **2. Compare and Contrast Liza's Stories** || [[file:Comparing StoryTelling a la LIZA EXCERPT 2012.pdf]] ||
 * **3. Take Six Elements** || [[file:Take Six Excerpt .pdf]] ||
 * **4. Old Mother Hubbard Task** || [[file:Old Mother Hubbard.pdf]] ||
 * **5. StoryBoard Template [Elem]** || [[file:Elementary StoryBoarding Template 2 copy.pdf]] ||
 * **6. StoryBoard Template [MultiMedia]** || [[file:Story Boarding Template.pdf]] ||
 * **7. StoryBoard Template [Filming]** || [[file:Film Shots storyboard.pdf]] ||
 * **8. DocuDrama Scoring Guide** || [[file:DocuDrama Scoring Guide.pdf]] ||
 * **9. Craftsmanship Elements Scoring Guide**

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 * **10. Media Making Skills -**
 * Identifying ROL [Returning on Learning]** || [[file:Media Making Skills.pdf]] ||
 * **12. Defining 14 Applied StoryTelling Categories** || [[file:Applied StoryTelling Definitions [BJP] copy.pdf]] ||



Additional Resources

 * **DigiTales eBook - Chapter FOUR [[|Click Here]]**
 * **Bernajean's Creative Teacher Article ~ "The Art of Digital StoryTelling" [[file:Porter's Art of Digital StoryTelling.pdf]]**
 * Bernajean's ISTE Article ~ Evaluating Media Products for Craftsmanship [[file:Raising the Bar ISTE Article.pdf]]
 * Bernajean's Edutopia I-imagine Article ~ "Awakening the Dreamer" [[|Click Here]]
 * DocuDrama Virtual GalleryWalk **[[|Click Here]]**
 * I-imagine Virtual GalleryWalk **[[|Click Here]]**
 * Green Screening Webinar Archive **[[|Click Here]]**
 * Getting Ready for Green Screening Resources **Click Here]**
 * I-imagine Webinar Archive Part ONE **[[|Click Here]]**
 * I-imagine Webinar Archive Part TWO ~ Nutz and Boltz **[[|Click Here]]**

**Research and Readings on Brain Power on StoryTelling**

 * **Wired for Story~ Bernajean's TOP Reading Book [[|Click Here]]**
 * **The Feel Good Principle ~ Science of Storytelling and What's Missing in Marketing [[|CLICK Here]]**
 * **Media and Psychology of Story ~ A Curated Collection of Publications [[|CLICK Here]]**
 * **AnyTime AnyWhere M-Language Learning [[|Click Here]]**
 * **Harvard Review "Irresistibility of StoryTelling as a Business Tool" [[|Click Here]]**