Digital+Storytelling

30 mins
 * Digital Storytelling K-6 **

**Darius Samojlowicz** - Head of Primary - The Hills Grammar School Darius Samojlowicz is the Head of Primary at The Hills Grammar School in Kenthurst, Sydney. He has been an educator for 18 years and has a Master of Education in Human Relations and Community Education. One aspect of his current role is to drive curriculum development K-6. In particular he has a passion for driving the pedagogical shift towards authentic ICT integration across all KLA's. He has worked with classroom teachers and educators, empowering them to develop, implement and share their teaching and learning experiences, and how they have used ICT in their practice to enhance student learning outcomes.

**Deborah Wightley** - Digital Literacy Facilitator - The Hills Grammar School Deborah Wightley is the Digital Literacy Facilitator at The Hills Grammar School. She has been instrumental in driving ICT integration across K-6 working with classroom teachers to develop their teaching and learning programs and empowering them with the confidence to challenge themselves and their students to develop authentic ways to integrate technology to improve teaching and learning.

Digital storytelling allows students to learn from and through others, encourages peer mentoring to teach new skills and uses the language of 21st Century learners to capture their imagination.

Students have a role in their own learning through active learning, promoting knowledge construction rather than simple recall of facts and information using an open ended, guided enquiry model.

We have defined digital storytelling as any multimedia application with which a child can tell a story, be it fictional or factual. Projects may include pictures, music, animation and narration. Students will have access to a variety of software applications including Audacity, Photostory, Corel Video Studio and Crazy Talk and hardware resources including flip videos, ipods, digital cameras and microphones.

The aim of this session is to demonstrate how to authentically integrate digital storytelling into learning and teaching programs and practice. The development of teaching programs will improve student outcomes in the areas of collaborative learning, enquiry based learning, investigation, creativity, critical thinking skills and independence as learners.

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