RESEARCH
LATEST RESEARCH AND PUBLICATIONS
Educational Uses of Digital Storytelling in K-12: Research Results of DISTCO 2012
Dogan, B. (2012). Educational Uses of Digital Storytelling in K-12: Research Results of Digital Storytelling Contest (DISTCO) 2012. In P. Resta (Ed.), Proceedings of Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education International Conference 2012 (pp. 1353-1362).Chesapeake, VA: AACE.
Educational Uses of Digital Storytelling: Research Results of DISTCO 2010
Dogan, B. (2011). Educational Uses of Digital Storytelling: Results of DISTCO 2010, an Online Digital Storytelling Contest. In M. Koehler & P. Mishra (Eds.), Proceedings of Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education International Conference 2011 (pp. 1104-1111). Chesapeake, VA: AACE.
Educational Uses of Digital Storytelling: Research Results of DISTCO 2009
Dogan, B. (2010). Educational Use of Digital Storytelling: Research Results of an Online Digital Storytelling Contest. In D. Gibson & B. Dodge (Eds.), Proceedings of Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education International Conference 2010 (pp. 1061-1066). Chesapeake, VA: AACE.
Challenges of Designing Online Digital Storytelling Contests for K-12 Education
Dogan, B. (2009). Educational Uses of Digital Storytelling: The Challenges of Designing an Online Digital Storytelling Contest for K-12 Students and Teachers.In Proceedings of World Conference on Educational Multimedia, Hypermedia and Telecommunications 2009 (pp. 3879-3884). Chesapeake, VA: AACE.
Creating Digital Storytelling Contests for K-12 Students and Teachers, Research Results of DISTCO 2008
Dogan, B. & Robin, B. (2009). Educational Uses of Digital Storytelling: Creating Digital Storytelling Contests for K-12 Students and Teachers. In I. Gibson et al. (Eds.), Proceedings of Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education International Conference 2009 (pp. 633-638). Chesapeake, VA: AACE
Implementation of Digital Storytelling in the Classroom by Teachers Trained in a Digital Storytelling Workshop
Dogan, B. & Robin, B. (2008). Implementation of Digital Storytelling in the Classroom by Teachers Trained in a Digital Storytelling Workshop. In K. McFerrin et al. (Eds.), Proceedings of Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education International Conference 2008 (pp. 902-907). Chesapeake, VA: AACE
OTHER RESEARCH
Digital Storytelling Finds Its Place in the Classroom
http://www.infotoday.com/MMSchools/jan02/banaszewski.htm
Tom Banaszewski gives a detailed description of the digital storytelling process used in his 4th and 5th grade classroom:
http://cs2.cust.educ.ubc.ca/csed/400/csed_readings/display%2024.pdf
Seven Elements of Digital Storytelling
Digital Storytelling in the Language Arts Classroom
Bull, G., & Kajder, S. (2004). Learning & Leading with Technology, Volume 32 Number 4, pages 46-49. Online at: http://cs2.cust.educ.ubc.ca/csed/400/csed_readings/display%2024.pdf
Bull and Kajder elaborate on their view that the focus in Digital Storytelling in the language arts classroom should be on the writing and communication process rather than on the technology used to create the stories. They discuss the Center for Digital Storytelling’s popular Seven Elements of Digital Storytelling in detail and describe strategies that can be used in the classroom and conclude with a summary of the benefits of this technology teaching method with a variety of different learners.
Telling Tales with Technology
Salpeter, J. (2005). Technology and Learning (25)7, pages 18, 20, 22, 24. Online at:
http://www.techlearning.com/shared/printableArticle.jhtml?articleID=60300276
In this article, Judy Salpeter discusses how educators have used the Center for Digital Storytelling’s model to train teachers and students to create digital stories that support instructional activities inside the classroom as well as in the community. The article also includes links to a number of digital storytelling websites that will be of interest to educators.
Researching and Evaluating Digital Storytelling as a Deep Learning Tool
http://electronicportfolios.org/portfolios/SITEStorytelling2006.pdf
In this article, Helen Barrett focuses on the use of digital sotrytelling as a tool for deep learning and provides a framework for researching and evalusting its use. She also discusses the role of DS and describes an emerging theory of storytelling as learning and reflection in teacher education.
Online Personal Learning Environments: Structuring Electronic Portfolios for Lifelong and Life Wide Learning
Barrett, H. & Garrett, N. (2010)
http://docs.google.com/View?docid=dd76m5s2_39fsmjdk
In this fascinating article, Barrett and Garrett discuss “a vision for for digital stories of development, or Online Personal Learning Environments which may eventually replace what we currently call ‘electronic portfolios’ in education.” The authors describe a concept in which everyone has what Cohn & Hibbits called a “lifetime personal web space.” In this scenario, an online archive that includes digital stories, is used accross a liftime from schools to the workplace, and finally as a way to preserve stories for future generations.
