Integrate Video & Storytelling with Curriculum -2

The articles linked here are easy to skim. They have helpful images and GIFs, and may inspire you to take your videos in a direction you might not otherwise ever consider.

General Best Practices

• 10 Ways You Can Use Video to Enhance Your Digital Learning Content Links to an external site.- These are very good specific strategies for integrating video with your teaching.

How to Integrate Storytelling 

Integrating storytelling will improve the instructional videos that you make, but takes some advanced planning. While just narrating over a PowerPoint is a good starting point, at some point you'll want to take it to the next level.

• Powerful Classroom Strategies From Neuroscience Research, by Judy Willis, M.D., M.Ed. Links to an external site.- This  is a longer article, but a good one. You'll learn  about the Reticular Activating System, and how you can sort of tickle the brain as a way to increase engagement.
• The Seven Elements of Digital Storytelling Links to an external site.- Integrating good use of each of these elements will really help to increase the quality of your videos. The video version is embedded below.

7 Elements of Storytelling in 4 Minutes

 

Reference:

For more on the topic of storytelling, visit the website for Educational Uses of Digital Storytelling. Links to an external site.

Used with permission: Links to an external site. Robin, B. (2018). The Educational Uses of Digital Storytelling Website
University of Houston College of Education
http://digitalstorytelling.coe.uh.edu Links to an external site.