Digital Storytelling in the Classroom or Modern Operating Systems

Digital Storytelling in the Classroom: New Media Pathways to Literacy, Learning, and Creativity

Author: Jason Ohler

"Ohler continues to be witty, wise, and indispensable. Pedagogy that resonates, teamed with a practical road map for teachers exploring the digital frontier--the best new media guide for teachers by far!"
--Suzi Gould, Director
StoryExpress, New Zealand

"Jason Ohler writes with clarity, wit, and passion about topics that are central to the enterprise of educating. He demonstrates how each student can become an active and more confident meaning-maker by using the tools that make stories powerful aids to understanding in all areas of the curriculum."
--Kieran Egan, Professor of Education
                    Simon Fraser University

"Ohler illuminates the very heart of learning and digital technology: storytelling. His is the story of how the networked computer amplifies our human capacity to learn through tools of expression."
--Walter Bender, President
One Laptop per Child Foundation

"A very important resource for twenty-first-century teaching and learning. Ohler's ability to distill the elements of good storytelling down to simple, clearly communicable ideas will prove beneficial for teachers and students alike, regardless of experience or technological knowledge."
--Nikos Theodosakis, Author
The Director in the Classroom

"Jason Ohler's new book is a must-read for any educator interested in harnessing the tools of digital technology to teach students to be creative and powerful storytellers. Original, accessible, and thought provoking for technophobes and technophiles alike."
--Steven Goodman,Director
       Educational Video Center

"Essential for integrating learning, literacy, and new media in and out of the classroom. Jason Ohler is a world leader in digital storytelling, and a master teacher, and a global communicator."
--Bernard J. Luskin, Professor and Director of Media Programs
                                                Fielding Graduate University

Use this practical resource to engage digital-age students in real-world learning!

Integrating digital storytelling with instruction becomes a creative opportunity for both novice and technologically experienced educators when using Jason Ohler's Digital Storytelling in the Classroom. Ohler links digital storytelling to improving traditional, digital, and media literacy, and guides teachers on how to empower students to tell stories in their own native language: new media and multimedia.

Aligned with NCTE standards and covering important copyright and fair use information, this text provides information on integrating storytelling into curriculum design and using the principles of storytelling as a measurement of learning and literacies. Implementation tips and visual aids abound, giving teachers an exciting new resource.

Table of Contents:

Foreword   David Thornburg     vii
Preface     ix
Acknowledgments     xiv
About the Author     xvii
Storytelling, Education, and the New Media     1
Confessions of a Digital Storytelling Teacher: Twenty Revelations About Digital Storytelling in Education     2
Defining and Discussing Digital Storytelling: Helping Teachers See, Think, and Talk About Digital Storytelling     15
Digital Storytelling as an Educational Tool: Standards, Planning, and Literacy     41
Assessing Digital Stories: The Opportunities and Challenges of New Media Evaluation     62
The Art and Practice of Storytelling     69
Thinking About Story: The Story Core, Story Mapping, Story Types     70
Applying Story Maps: Seeing the Core, Mapping the Story     87
Story Planning Considerations: Tips, Techniques, Lessons Learned     95
Transformation Formations: How We, and the Characters in Our Stories, Change     107
More Story Maps: From Aristotle to Present Day     113
Other Kinds of Stories: Other Story Forms and Story Perspectives     124
Going Digital     131
The Media Production Process, Phase I: Developing the Story     132
The Media Production Process, Phases II-V: From Preproduction to Performance     149
The Digital Storytelling Toolbox: The Tools Teachers and Students Need to Tell Digital Stories     166
Media Grammar for Teachers: Assessing Media Expression     177
Copyright and Fair Use in Education: Living in the Gray Zone, Doing the Right Thing, and Protecting Yourself     192
Epilogue: If I Had a Time Machine...     202
Teaching Oral Storytelling     204
Audio Techniques for Video Recording Oral Storytelling     206
Audio Techniques for Interviewing People     208
Freytag's Pyramid     210
Grammar of Camera Angles     212
What's Scannable?     214
Joseph Campbell's Story Adventure Diagram     215
Visual Portrait of a Story     216
References and Further Readings     218
Index     221

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Modern Operating Systems

Author: Andrew S Tanenbaum

 

The widely anticipated revision of this worldwide best-seller incorporates the latest developments in operating systems technologies.  The Third Edition includes up-to-date materials on relevant operating systems such as Linux, Windows, and embedded real-time and multimedia systems. Includes new and updated coverage of multimedia operating systems, multiprocessors, virtual machines, and antivirus software. Covers internal workings of Windows Vista (Ch. 11); unique even for current publications. Provides information on current research based Tanenbaum’s experiences as an operating systems researcher. A useful reference for programmers.