Discover the beauty in life, study and work. A short story tells the truth. Be a man with a story.
We often find that educators, celebrities and leaders from all over the world are good at telling stories. They often tell the truth with sincere stories. As a result, people are emotionally integrated and are no longer strangers to each other, which has produced great publicity effects. This is the power of the story.
Nowadays, the era of high-tech information has arrived. Telling stories with digital technology, that is, the so-called digital stories have entered daily life, entered the front line of education and teaching, and been adopted by teachers and students. In teaching activities, multimedia technology is used to show people's thoughts, growth, actions and touching stories, which are used as story clues, and media elements such as words, images and music are added to create a visual process to reproduce people's stories, namely digital stories. It is the deepening of the traditional story form, the essence of classroom teaching and an indispensable and very important educational means for teachers and students. It gives traditional storytelling a new way. Although the production time of digital storytelling is short, it uses a new form of multimedia, which makes storytelling an art and easily resonates with teachers and students. As long as we do a good job in every touching story, I believe we will have a strong life force.
There are similarities between making digital stories and writing stories. For example, we should tell excellent people and things perfectly by telling stories, and also tell wisdom and truth by reappearing the plot, giving people inspiration. The difference is that some media elements, such as animation, video and sound, should be added to digital stories to make them have visual effects. More real and intuitive than paper books and dictation. Digital story is also a story, which contains all the elements of a story, such as time, place, people, the cause and result of events, and these elements should not be missing. It's just in digital form.
What are the elements of making digital stories?
For example, the stories to be discovered must be touching stories in life and work. There is no big or small story, and the characters have nothing to do with men, women and children, but the material must come from true feelings. The story is touching, typical and instructive to readers. You should be good at observing and discovering those touching things around you. If you want to write a good story, you must be a conscientious person.
With a good theme, it is necessary to create the story artistically, including the writing of the story text and the design of the resources used to make digital stories. Generally speaking, in writing, the writing of an old number word is about 300 to 500 words. Don't make a long speech, try to be vivid and concise.
According to the content of the story and the elements to be expressed, choose pictures, audio and video and decorative words closely related to the theme of the story, and make full preparations for production. These are only the most basic, and digital stories need to be digitized to make them operational, systematic, interesting, practical and scientific.
The value of digital stories lies not only in the viewing effect of images, but also in the whole process of creation. If teachers, students and even parents participate in the exploration, they can experience the fun. At the same time, the creation of digital stories is conducive to improving the information technology and literacy of teachers and students, and enhancing their aesthetic concepts and moral cultivation. The construction of digital resources also provides a way for teachers' professional growth. Teachers and students learn from each other through entertainment.
Let's take an example to introduce the library of Sha High School to readers in the form of digital stories.
The steps are as follows:
First of all, the story of the library is described as follows:
Our library was founded in 19 14, which is famous for its elegant and profound cultural heritage and inspiring teaching. Mr. Wang Fuchang, a famous nuclear physicist in China and the father of the atomic bomb, also deeply recalled his study in this school in his memoirs in his later years. Mr. Wu Xiaobang, the founder of China New Dance Art and the former chairman of the Chinese Dancers Association, also served as an English teacher in this school. 1992, the school was admitted and passed by provincial key middle schools. In the same year, the school built a new comprehensive building and the library moved into it. In 2000, the school built a new library according to the overall construction plan, and in September 2000, the library moved to a new location. In the same year, in June 5438+10, the library was rated as a provincial library. In the past two years, the old campus has been upgraded, and as a supporting library, new construction has begun.
The new library is located in the southeast of the school. This is a modern four-story building. At present, the library is divided into three parts and eleven offices: management area, student lending area and staff lending area. Spacious space and elegant environment make it a good place for teachers and students to study.
In the coming years, the library will continue to uphold the tradition of serving education and teaching wholeheartedly, helping teachers and students to answer questions and increase their knowledge.
Second, edit the story script.
This paper interprets the changes of Gaosha provincial library from three time points; Memoirs of the main characters Wang Jichang and Wu Xiaobang; Modern architecture and interior furnishings; Teachers and students reading scene display; Administrator style; Show students reading activities.
Third, digital application.
1. The picture of the former site of Gaosha Library, focusing on the pictures of the modern library and eleven offices;
2. Photos borrowed by teachers and students in the library;
[13] List of famous sayings read by teachers and students;
4. Reading and understanding MV picture making;
5. Show pictures of various activities and awards held by the library. ;
6. The introduction of librarians and their quotations;
Introduce the importance of reading activities and so on.
Fourth, making tools.
①PPT2003
(2) Special effects processing of pictures and characters, and artistic processing of pictures.
③ Make use of PPT production skills to beautify each slide. Such as switching, custom animation, adding effects (entry, emphasis, exit, action path) and so on.
(4) Insert background music, as in this example, you can choose three parts, namely classical, elegant and modern music. And elements such as music background, text and picture explanation should be reasonably distributed.
⑤ Using the rehearsal timing in slide design, PPT can be played automatically, which takes about five minutes.
Here, the digital story of a beautiful school library is completed.
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A new way of learn and expressing digital story
Abstract: As a new teaching tool and method, storytelling with digital technology has attracted more and more attention. This paper introduces the emergence and development of digital stories abroad, and takes the Shanghai Female Teacher Story Contest as an example, focusing on the production and evaluation of digital stories.
Keywords: teaching method, digital story, story contest
With the rapid development of network and information technology, we have been in the ocean of information. The amount of information is large and easy to obtain, and its value is correspondingly reduced. Who can organize information, make it have a contextualized environment, and express it emotionally is extremely important, which is the sense of story. Storytelling is an ancient art, like other art forms, it can also keep pace with the times by relying on modern science and technology, and digital stories emerge as the times require.
First, the origin and development of digital stories
In the early 1990s, Dana Winslow Accili, as the initiator of digital stories, made an autobiographical film with her old photos and her own computer narration, which was well received by everyone. Later, Accili and his friend Lambert began to help others tell their personal digital stories. More and more people began to devote themselves to this creative form. The first digital media center was established in San Francisco, which is now the Digital Story Telling Center (CDS). 1 1 At the end of June, 2002, representatives from 8 countries and 25 states in the United States got together and established the Digital Storytelling Association. Since then, digital stories have quickly swept the world.
The author thinks that digital stories are made by combining the traditional storytelling art with multimedia (subtitles, pictures, audio, video, animation, etc.). ), and used for people to express themselves, communicate and learn in digital form. Digital Story Center (CDS) summarizes seven elements of digital story: (1) main points; (2) Dramatic problems;
(3) the content of emotional stories; (4) A "sound gift" from you; (5) the power of music; (6) the "economic" treatment of various elements; (7) The ups and downs of the story rhythm. Digital stories are different from video clips, which only stay within the scope of video works and have low requirements for stories. The most important feature of digital story is story, which is not just a video work. Producers can express their inner thoughts in any digital form.
At present, the main form of digital stories at home and abroad is the personal production of 2-5 minutes of multimedia works, which integrates pictures, subtitles, audio-visual and animation, and can be uploaded to the Internet for wide dissemination and communication. In the field of education, digital stories, as a new way of communication and learning, play an active role in cultivating students' expressive ability, problem-solving ability, creativity, media literacy and the development of students' multiple intelligences. Burmark(2004) did a study and found that the integration of words and visual images can enhance and promote students' understanding of the content. The University of Houston in the United States has established a digital story education application website to provide information and cases on how to make and use digital stories for teachers and students of K- 12 and higher education institutions. There are three main types of digital story cases: personal or viewpoint stories, stories used for reporting or teaching, and stories telling historical events.
Second, the production and evaluation of digital stories.
On September 6th, 2065438+00-2065438+00, the Women's Work Committee of Shanghai Education System and the Women Workers' Committee of Shanghai Education Union organized the PPT Design Competition of "Expo Charm, Beauty of Teachers' Morality-Story of Shanghai Female Teachers", and the entries were required to be digital stories within 5 minutes. A total of 97 entries were collected in this competition, and 35 entries were finally selected. The production tool needed for this digital story production contest is PowerPoint.
(a) Production of digital stories
The digital story making process adopted by the author is the basic program provided by the Digital Story Initiative (DSI), including seeking experience, telling stories, creating works and publishing works. , and combined with the author's own production experience to make some changes.
1. Looking for stories from experiences
Everyone has his own life experience, but how to express it by telling stories is a science. About; In all parts of; about
The difference between story and fact, Professor Li Thicken gave a typical example, "The queen died, and soon after, the king died, which is a fact;" The queen died, and the king was very sad, so he was ill for a long time. All the famous doctors in this country are helpless about this disease. On a stormy night, the king died of illness This is a story. "I can clearly feel that the story is emotional and more infectious than simple fact telling. Exploring and discovering experience can help us to confirm the potential story point of view, and then focus the story on a special point to unfold the story. The excellent work Singing for the Nightingale tells the story of Mr. Zhou Xiaoyan, a tenured professor of Shanghai Conservatory of Music. This work has been revised several times, and the final version shows the audience Mr. Zhou's endless and passionate love for students, music career and motherland in poetic language. The story creator said that he read Mr. Zhou's deeds and early reports and introductions every day, and many stories and details could not be fully displayed, but it was because he learned more about the protagonist in the process of learning Mr. Zhou's history that he completed his creation.
Organizational story
After fully understanding the story behind the digital story, you need to organize your story well.
Design and production of (1) storyboard
Whether using PowerPoint or Movie Make software, the first important step is to ask the creators of digital stories to design and make storyboards to design the process and material arrangement of the stories. Provide a story design template, as shown in figure 1:
Figure 1. Digital story making storyboard
In the process of making digital stories, making storyboards is an important and necessary step, which can intuitively show the visual effect of your works after completion. Storyboard is like a visual "map", which guides the story creator to organize the materials you can see and hear from the beginning to the end of the story, plays a guiding role in editing digital stories, and is convenient for you to intuitively think and organize various materials (photos, audio, video and other forms of art works). Otherwise, you will stop in the production process and then frantically search for the visual material you want, which will not only waste time, but also interrupt your thinking.
Finally, it should be noted that the storyboard design is not static, it is only a draft, and you may have to constantly modify and redesign it during the process of making digital stories. The key lies in the creator of the story.
(2) the choice of narrative skills
The most important thing in telling a story is to grasp the main line of the story. For example, the excellent work "Chanting for the Nightingale" takes the nightingale as the image and runs through the whole story; The excellent work "Rooted Career" takes a pair of cloth shoes as the main line, highlighting the "footprint" left by the protagonist on the road of preschool education development.
A good ending design also has a unique artistic charm. For example, the ending design of "Following the Footprints of Dreams", "When everyone is watching this PPT, she has started a new voyage-expedition to the North Pole", which is in line with O 'Henry's ending technique to some extent and gives the audience a spiritual voice.
Create a work
After the preparatory work is completed, it is easy to create a work. Producers choose software (PowerPoint, etc.) according to the guidance of storyboards. ) to integrate all kinds of materials, insert pictures, audio, video and other materials to make a complete digital story.
4. Publish works
After the production of digital story works, it can be used for self-appreciation, peer exchange and reference, work display and sharing. Producers and organizers can publish and preserve works according to different purposes and requirements. For example, the works of this competition were saved as PowerPoint97-2003 software for on-site display and evaluation, which made the female faculty of Shanghai education system receive a love education in the theater environment and gained a touch at the same time. After the public exhibition, the organizer will carve the excellent works into DVD discs and distribute them to all schools and departments for sharing, communication and learning.
(b) Assessing digital stories
Combined with this competition, the author participated in the design of digital story evaluation scale, mainly from narrative, artistic, technical and
Evaluation of four aspects of innovation. As shown in Figure 2:
Figure 2 Digital story evaluation criteria
A good story is the key to your success in your work. Therefore, in the evaluation scale, the story has the highest weight. In addition to objectively evaluating digital stories from four dimensions: storytelling, artistry, technology and innovation, the most important thing is the audience's subjective feelings. Therefore, the author thinks it is necessary to add a column of overall evaluation and combine subjective and objective evaluation to make our evaluation more rational. The most important thing about digital stories is the expression of emotions. A story that can attract the audience and arouse the audience should be a successful digital story.
Third, digital stories need to be redesigned.
"Expo Charm, Beauty of Teachers' Morality —— Stories of Shanghai Female Teachers" PPT Design Competition covers 28 universities and 39 primary and secondary schools in Shanghai, and is the most extensive and successful digital story competition held in China. Through this competition, the PPT level of Shanghai frontline teachers' art design has been improved as a whole, and digital stories have been truly promoted and practiced in the field of education for the first time. At the same time, it praised the lofty professional ethics of outstanding female teachers in Shanghai in a novel way, gave a spiritual baptism and a love education to the employees of Shanghai education system, and played a certain role in promoting the comprehensive quality of teachers. Although some works have reached a high level in story content organization, PPT structure, screen art design, music processing and PPT technology, there are still some shortcomings in the works collected in this competition: the focus of the story is not prominent and there is no touching theme; The pattern of empty rhetoric has turned digital stories into work summary reports; The hero of the story is described as "tall and complete" and lacks realism; The unreasonable use of pictures, background music, narration and animation has become a disturbing factor. These problems need to be studied and solved in future practice. Postscript:
"Shanghai Excellent Female Teacher Story Contest" is the first digital story contest with the largest scale and remarkable effect in China. I participated in the whole process of the competition and also participated in the design and revision of some excellent works. In the competition works, I feel the greatness and extraordinary of Shanghai female teachers through real and touching digital stories, although they are all in the front line of ordinary posts. As mentioned in this article, this competition seems to have lost its flavor. More is to give the staff of Shanghai education system a love education and a spiritual baptism. I wrote this article to record this competition and to promote digital stories. It is hoped that front-line teachers can take digital stories as a new way of learning and expression in education and teaching practice. Education is not only the imparting of knowledge and skills, but also the cultivation of emotions, attitudes and values.