Storymaking+What+Works

=Storymaking: What Works= Online Presentation for University of Regina EC&I 831 • November, 2014

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Session Recording (Blackboard Collaborate)

Abstract
"Storytelling" is a long time resident of the charts of educational ideas. As a topic of workshops and presentations (I've done plenty), books (none for me), TED Talks (definitely not), the word to me conjures up the idea of performance. Plus my own internal conversation-- "I'm not a storyteller". Peel away the connotations of campfires, cave drawings, and performers on a stage, the elements of storythinking are much more important to me than the show. 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. While technology provides plenty of tools to tell stories, more compelling is what they afford us to practice and develop our own skills of making and incorporating story not only into teaching, but many forms of expression. I will share my own experiments in improvisation ([|pechaflickr]), visual storytelling ([|Five Card Flickr Stories]), 50+ Web Ways to Tell a Story, [|ds106], and a digital time capsule ([|the StoryBox)]-- not as magic answers but perhaps a way of thinking about story elements beyond the performance aspect

URLs Mentioned

 * **Story Openings**
 * "Knock" by Frederick Brown []
 * **Character**
 * Meet your Modern Office commercial http://youtu.be/9zf0dqzTUPk
 * Google Nexus 7 Commercial http://youtu.be/Lmf0F7JxxXE
 * **What Makes a Story?**
 * 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 Hook**
 * Lost Flash Drive: Remixed Then Returned http://youtu.be/IG1ZkW_u_Bw
 * This American Life: EPISODE 206 Somewhere in the Arabian Sea []
 * **Anticipation**
 * Responses of Monkey Dopamine Neurons to Reward and Conditioned Stimuli during Successive Steps of Learning a Delayed Response Task []
 * **Show Don't Tell**
 * Jaws Dinner scene []
 * **The Shape of Stories**
 * Kurt Vonnegut "The Shape of Stories" []
 * Paul Zak: Empathy, Neurochemistry, and Dramatic Arc []
 * The Story Spine by Kenn Adams []
 * The Story Spine: Pixar’s 4th Rule of Storytelling []
 * **Overcoming Tension**
 * Removing the Tension from the Budweiser Puppy Love Video (Literally) http://www.ishmaelscorner.com/2014/09/07/budweiser-puppy-love-storytelling
 * Recut Commercial http://youtu.be/4t68fsBExnc
 * Full Commercial http://youtu.be/P1DOZhIshfg
 * **Storytelling for Science**
 * //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/
 * Science Forward http://cuny.is/scienceforward

Alan's Storytelling Grab Bag

 * pechaflickr http://pechaflickr.net
 * Five Card flickr Stories http://5card.cogdogblog.com/
 * 50+ Web Ways to Tell a Story http://50ways.wikispaces.com
 * DS106 http://ds106.us
 * DS106 Assignment Bank http://assignments.ds106.us
 * The Daily Create http://tdc.ds106.us
 * The Storybox http://cogdogblog.com/storybox

Some Other Presentations About Storytelling

 * Storythinking > StoryMaking > Storytelling
 * The ds106 Files
 * Making / Telling Stories That Matter
 * Explorations in Web Storytelling
 * What Mean Ye Storytelling?