Keynote for Computer Assisted Legal Instruction (CALI) annual conference, June 19, 2015, Denver, CO.
Description
Storytelling, you know the metaphors- cave paintings, campfires. There are all kinds of ways I could describe them, and the BS is not the BS you may be thinking of. Rather than defining, constraining storytelling, I share my experiences of creating digital stories and teaching to others of what "works" as elements, with suggestions how you can think of it as more than just a magic spice you sprinkle on your work. Like most, I have my own internal conversation– "I’m not a storyteller". A hook of interest, the shape of a narrative, a character to care about, suspension of belief, using less, media metaphors are story techniques that you can integrate into your work as educators.
Presentation
URLs Mentioned (and a few more for kicks)
- The Keychain Story
- Keychains, Retelling, and Getting to the Heart of Stories http://cogdogblog.com/2013/06/03/heart-of-stories/
- Talking About Keys- An Opener http://cogdogblog.com/2012/08/29/talking-about-keys/
- Story Openings
- "Knock" by Frederick Brown http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Knock_(short_story)
- The Hook
- We Found a Flash Drive By The Road http://youtu.be/IG1ZkW_u_Bw
- JJ Abrams The Mystery Box http://youtu.be/vpjVgF5JDq8
- Changing Expectations
- Troy Library: Book Burning Party http://youtu.be/AoT13m8-Kxo
- "…a semblance of truth sufficient to procure for these shadows of imagination that willing suspension of disbelief for the moment, which constitutes poetic faith." Samuel Taylor Coleridge https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suspension_of_disbelief
- Willing Suspension of Disbelief http://www.nytimes.com/2007/10/07/magazine/07wwln-safire-t.html?_r=0
- Character
- Meet your Modern Office commercial https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fmwVxIbdeWc
- Google Nexus 7 Commercial http://youtu.be/Lmf0F7JxxXE
- We Tell Stories (Trailer) http://youtu.be/ytq4VZ2Nyxg
- "When you are in the middle of a story" (Margaret Atwood quote) http://www.goodreads.com/quotes/163271-when-you-are-in-the-middle-of-a-story-it
- The Shape of Stories
- Kurt Vonnegut "The Shape of Stories" http://youtu.be/oP3c1h8v2ZQ
- Removing the Tension from the Budweiser Puppy Love Video (Literally) http://www.ishmaelscorner.com/budweiser-puppy-love-storytelling/
- The Story Spine by Kenn Adams http://aerogrammestudio.com/2013/06/05/back-to-the-story-spine/
- Brain Science of Storytelling
- Paul Zak: Empathy, Neurochemistry, and Dramatic Arc http://youtu.be/DHeqQAKHh3M
- Why Your Brain Loves Good Storytelling https://hbr.org/2014/10/why-your-brain-loves-good-storytelling/
- The Brain Science Behind Storytelling https://www.melcrum.com/research/strategy-planning-tactics/science-behind-storytelling
- Building Suspense
- Alfred Hitchcock On Mastering Cinematic Tension (difference between surprise and suspense) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DPFsuc_M_3E
- The Ultimate Hitch Cookbook https://vimeo.com/26156757
- Give a Great Speech: 3 Tips from Aristotle http://www.inc.com/john-baldoni/deliver-a-great-speech-aristotle-three-tips.html
- By Scientists
- Don’t Be Such a Scientist (by Randy Olsen) http://www.amazon.com/Dont-Be-Such-Scientist-Substance/dp/1597265632
- Grab Attention and Communicate – Orange experiment http://youtu.be/9_LLj4_3ZRA
- One Minute Physics http://www.youtube.com/minutephysics
- Story of Stuff http://www.storyofstuff.org
- Three Acts Math Problems (Dan Meyer) http://threeacts.mrmeyer.com/
Alan’s Storymaking Cards
- pechaflickr http://pechaflickr.net/
- Five Card Flickr Stories http://5card.cogdogblog.com/
- DS106 http://ds106.us
- Open DS106 http://ds106.us/open-course
- DS106 Assignment Bank http://assignments.ds106.us
- The Daily Create http://tdc.ds106.us/
- A DS106 Thing Happened on the Way to the 3M Tech Forum (Journal of Interactive Media in Education) http://jime.open.ac.uk/articles/10.5334/jime.ag/
- ds106: Not a Course, Not Like Any MOOC (EDUCAUSE Review) http://www.educause.edu/ero/article/ds106-not-course-not-any-mooc
- Assignment Riffing: What Happens in DS106 Does Not Stay in DS106 (MLA 2015) http://cogdogblog.com/stuff/mla15/
- ds106 is Made of the Stuff the Web is Made of (WCET) https://wcetblog.wordpress.com/2013/02/13/ds106/
- 50+ Web Ways to Tell a Story http://50ways.wikispaces.com
- The Storybox http://cogdogblog.com/storybox
Best Stuff
- Center for Digital Storytelling – they more or less invented the idea of digital storytelling and offer workshops, webinars, books, etc geared towards producing personal digital video stories. http://storycenter.org
- The New Digital Storytelling – book and more by Bryan Alexander http://newdigitalstorytelling.net/
- Inside the Story Magazine – eBooks by Adam Westbrook (temporarily not available Jan 2015 http://www.insidethestory.org/) see Adam’s work at https://adamwestbrook.wordpress.com/
