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Storymaking

Alan Levine
October 01, 2014

 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

Alan Levine

October 01, 2014
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  1. STORYTHINKING >
    STORYMAKING >
    STORYTELLING
    ALAN LEVINE
    go.cogdog.it/sharefest14-storymaking

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  2. cc licensed ( BY ) flickr photo by pasukaru76: http://flickr.com/photos/pasukaru76/3694736727/

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  3. WHAT WORKS?

    THE OPENING

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  4. ONCE UPON A TIME...

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  6. The last man
    alive on Earth
    sat alone in a
    room.

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  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)

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  8. WHAT WORKS?

    CHARACTERS

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  9. A TECHNOLOGY PRODUCT COMMERCIAL
    http://youtu.be/9zf0dqzTUPk

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  10. ANOTHER TECHNOLOGY PRODUCT COMMERCIAL
    http://youtu.be/Lmf0F7JxxXE

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  11. WHAT WORKS?

    JUXTAPOSITION

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  12. cc licensed ( BY ) flickr photo by kevindooley: http://flickr.com/photos/pagedooley/2172001078/

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  13. cc licensed ( BY NC SD ) flickr photo by chuck_heston: http://flickr.com/photos/chuckheston/383386494/

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  14. cc licensed ( BY NC ND ) flickr photo by Pay No Mind: http://flickr.com/photos/paynomind/65010034/

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  15. WHAT MAKES A
    STORY?

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  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

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  17. TELLING ~= PERFORMING

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  18. creative commons licensed (BY-SA) flickr photo by cogdogblog: http://flickr.com/photos/cogdog/11023534043

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  19. TELL ME A STORY

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  20. cc licensed ( BY NC SD ) flickr photo by g-mikee: http://flickr.com/photos/g-mikee/5202927662/

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  21. THE PYRAMID

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  22. THE LUMPY HILL

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  23. THE CYCLE

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  24. THE OBVIOUS

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  25. WHAT WORKS?

    STORY SHAPE

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  26. KURT VONNEGUT "THE SHAPE OF STORIES"
    http://youtu.be/oP3c1h8v2ZQ

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  27. The Story Spine by Kenn Adams http://aerogrammestudio.com/2013/06/05/back-to-the-story-spine/

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  28. WHAT WORKS?

    OVERCOMING
    TENSION

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  29. BUDWEISER COMMERCIAL RECUT
    http://www.ishmaelscorner.com/2014/09/07/budweiser-puppy-love-storytelling/

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  30. BUDWEISER COMMERCIAL FULL
    http://www.ishmaelscorner.com/2014/09/07/budweiser-puppy-love-storytelling/

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  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

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  32. BACK OFF

    “I’M A SCIENTIST”

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  34. Movies Grab Our Attention

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  35. Communicate & Grab Attention?
    http://youtu.be/9_LLj4_3ZRA

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  36. http://www.amazon.com/Dont-Be-Such-Scientist-Substance/dp/1597265632

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  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"

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  38. http://www.youtube.com/minutephysics

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  39. http://www.storyofstuff.org

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  40. http://blog.mrmeyer.com/?p=10387
    http://threeacts.mrmeyer.com/

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  41. WHAT WORKS?

    THE “SO WHAT?”

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  42. TECHNOLOGY IS JUST
    A TOOL
    creative commons licensed (BY) flickr photo by katerha: http://flickr.com/photos/katerha/5746905652

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  43. “CLAUDE, IT’S JUST A
    PAINTBRUSH”
    creative commons licensed (BY-NC-SA) flickr photo by cavale: http://flickr.com/photos/cavale/5619905303

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  44. “JIMI, IT’S JUST A
    GUITAR”
    creative commons licensed (BY-NC) flickr photo by wiserbailey: http://flickr.com/photos/25084516@N03/5331538409

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  46. STORY OVER
    TOOLS
    creative commons licensed ( BY NC ) flickr photo by kaje_yomama: http://flickr.com/photos/kajeyomama/4987968865/

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  47. !
    cogdogblog.com/storybox

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