Storytelling
When scientists are ready to share their work, what’s the best
way to communicate their findings? We believe there’s the risk of
losing truly great findings in what has come be to called, “power
pointless” presentations at conferences and scientific seminars,
much less explain things to the non-scientific community. What if
students learning to share the “story” of their data in ways that
were clear, well thought out, and easily understood by the context
and structure of the presentation….powerful storytelling.
ASOF Curriculum Guide (Chapter 5)
Mark Standley
www.mstandley.com
Teachingstory.com
What is our story? Who is our audience? What do we feel compelled to share? Why? Stories are the key to who we are, where we are going, and where we have been. Please share our many stories. Videos are posted on the Camps and Site Blogs and Projects!
"Boot Room" = A process to collect video testimonies during the project, at camps, etc. Telling your story will be done throughout the project, to include sharing through video conferencing, face-to-face trainings and camps, and videos produced for vod-casting.
Boot Room Process and documents
Storytelling RubricPod Leaders
Here are two great links to students using iMovie for Scientific Inquiry and Science Learning to support your efforts to teach and assess digital storytelling.
Please consider using these prior to the Hawaii Camp AND for the students who are not traveling as an activity to support their current work with storytelling and science in the classroom.
View the Using iMovie to Teach History and the Nature of Scientific Inquiry project on Apple Learning Interchange.
View the Learning From Children’s Voices and Improving Science Education project on Apple Learning Interchange
February 2007 Training at Alyeska
Other Resources:
Elements of Storytelling
Center for Digital Storytelling
www.storycenter.org