Unit IV: Digital Story Final Project
For this final storytelling assignment, you will conceptualize, design, create, and refine a digital story of your own inclinations. Make this fun for yourself; learn a new skill or explore something you want to learn about. This project will be the focus of the final week of class; we won’t have reading homework or intensive class discussions, so all your efforts can focus in on this work.
REQUIREMENTS:
Create and tell a story using digital format and digital tools. The story should be complete and of an appropriate length to clearly indicate you’ve done decent and substantial work on it.
You’ll also turn in a regular old-fashioned paper, 1 page long, which explains your project a bit: what you are trying to do with it, why it’s a digital story, why the medium you chose was an effective one, etc.
IDEAS AND EXPLORATIONS:
There are a ton of resources and links on our class website at digital.gustavus.edu/digitalstorytelling
Tools, Resources, and Example Projects: Gustavus Library ||| Cool Tools ||| 8 Million Stories ||| Global Digital Citizen ||| Hackastory ||| Emily Short’s Interactive Storytelling ||| DHCommons |||
- Another social media story (different platforms possible)
- Another Story Map
- Another Twine story
- WordPress website (Baker can set up for you!)
- Kinetic Typography
- Make an app
- Make a video game with BASIC; other games/apps
- Creative/unusual use of PowerPoint or Excel or…
- Video/microvideos (fake YouTube channel, FlipGrid)
- An online museum collection (with WordPress or other website)
- Oral History–interview someone, tape them, present digitally somehow
- Mind Map
- Combine an old book and your drawings
- Annotate a book/video/photo/painting series
- Screencasts
- Quicktime (Mac)
- Text message story, record live with screencast
- for iPhone
- for Android: option 1 or option 2 among many
- Word Cloud
- Do a poll about something unusual that tells a story, make word cloud and stats out of it
- Blackout poetry/tumblr
- Would be cool to watch as a screencast
- examples
- Spoken word videos
- Podcast
- Song
- Cartoons
- Virtual Reality game; virtual surgeries