Storymaking

"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), and a digital time capsule (the StoryBox)-- not as magic answers but perhaps a way of thinking about story elements beyond the performance aspect

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1. STORYTHINKING > STORYMAKING > STORYTELLING ALAN LEVINE go.cogdog.it/sharefest14-storymaking
2. cc licensed ( BY ) flickr photo by pasukaru76: http://flickr.com/photos/pasukaru76/3694736727/
3. WHAT WORKS? THE OPENING
4. ONCE UPON A TIME...
6. The last man alive on Earth sat alone in a room.
7. The Last man alive on Earth sat alone in a room. There was a knock at the door. "KNOCK" BY FREDERICK BROWN http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Knock_(short_story)
8. WHAT WORKS? CHARACTERS
9. A TECHNOLOGY PRODUCT COMMERCIAL http://youtu.be/9zf0dqzTUPk
10. ANOTHER TECHNOLOGY PRODUCT COMMERCIAL http://youtu.be/Lmf0F7JxxXE
11. WHAT WORKS? JUXTAPOSITION
12. cc licensed ( BY ) flickr photo by kevindooley: http://flickr.com/photos/pagedooley/2172001078/
13. cc licensed ( BY NC SD ) flickr photo by chuck_heston: http://flickr.com/photos/chuckheston/383386494/
14. cc licensed ( BY NC ND ) flickr photo by Pay No Mind: http://flickr.com/photos/paynomind/65010034/
15. WHAT MAKES A STORY?
16. STORIES WE TELL TRAILER HTTP://YOUTU.BE/YTQ4VZ2NYXG “When  you  are  in  the  middle  of  a  story  it  isn't  a   story  at  all,  but  only  a  confusion;  a  dark  roaring,  a   blindness,  a  wreckage  of  shattered  glass  and   splintered  wood;  like  a  house  in  a  whirlwind,  or   else  a  boat  crushed  by  the  icebergs  or  swept  over   the  rapids,  and  all  aboard  powerless  to  stop  it.  It's   only  afterwards  that  it  becomes  anything  like  a   story  at  all.  When  you  are  telling  it,  to  yourself  or   to  someone  else.”   —  Margaret  Atwood,  Alias  Grace
17. TELLING ~= PERFORMING
18. creative commons licensed (BY-SA) flickr photo by cogdogblog: http://flickr.com/photos/cogdog/11023534043
19. TELL ME A STORY
20. cc licensed ( BY NC SD ) flickr photo by g-mikee: http://flickr.com/photos/g-mikee/5202927662/
21. THE PYRAMID
22. THE LUMPY HILL
23. THE CYCLE
24. THE OBVIOUS
25. WHAT WORKS? STORY SHAPE
26. KURT VONNEGUT "THE SHAPE OF STORIES" http://youtu.be/oP3c1h8v2ZQ
27. The Story Spine by Kenn Adams http://aerogrammestudio.com/2013/06/05/back-to-the-story-spine/
28. WHAT WORKS? OVERCOMING TENSION
29. BUDWEISER COMMERCIAL RECUT http://www.ishmaelscorner.com/2014/09/07/budweiser-puppy-love-storytelling/
30. BUDWEISER COMMERCIAL FULL http://www.ishmaelscorner.com/2014/09/07/budweiser-puppy-love-storytelling/
31. http://www.ishmaelscorner.com/2014/09/07/budweiser-puppy-love-storytelling/ “Be  a  sadist.  No  matter  how  sweet   and  innocent  your  leading   characters,  make  awful  things   happen  to  them  —  in  order  that  the   reader  may  see  what  they  are  made   of.”   —Kurt  Vonnegut
32. BACK OFF “I’M A SCIENTIST”
34. Movies Grab Our Attention
35. Communicate & Grab Attention? http://youtu.be/9_LLj4_3ZRA
36. http://www.amazon.com/Dont-Be-Such-Scientist-Substance/dp/1597265632
37. "When it's a simple as two things: arouse and fulfill. You need to first arouse your audience and then get them interested in what you have to say; then you need to fulfill their expectations"
38. http://www.youtube.com/minutephysics
39. http://www.storyofstuff.org
40. http://blog.mrmeyer.com/?p=10387 http://threeacts.mrmeyer.com/
41. WHAT WORKS? THE “SO WHAT?”
42. TECHNOLOGY IS JUST A TOOL creative commons licensed (BY) flickr photo by katerha: http://flickr.com/photos/katerha/5746905652
43. “CLAUDE, IT’S JUST A PAINTBRUSH” creative commons licensed (BY-NC-SA) flickr photo by cavale: http://flickr.com/photos/cavale/5619905303
44. “JIMI, IT’S JUST A GUITAR” creative commons licensed (BY-NC) flickr photo by wiserbailey: http://flickr.com/photos/25084516@N03/5331538409
46. STORY OVER TOOLS creative commons licensed ( BY NC ) flickr photo by kaje_yomama: http://flickr.com/photos/kajeyomama/4987968865/
47. ! cogdogblog.com/storybox