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Notes and thoughts on Helen Barrett's ePortfolio NECC. Digital Stories add voice to any portfolio. http://www.21stcenturyskills.org/

Process - Script is first
 * New ISTE standards have creativity and innovation. Dan Pink - A Whole New Mind - balancing right-brain/left brain. In his 6 essential high-concep, high touch aptitutdes, he talkes about story - the ability to fashion a compelling narrative.
 * Helping students tell their stories - students need our help in collecting more than text - adding audio and video.
 * Digital Storytelling Process: A Dozen Purposes for DS in EP:
 * Intro of self - Voice and Personality
 * DS help leave a legacy of our family stories
 * Memoir - focuses on memory of storyteller - students can easily do memoirs for family memories.
 * Reflection - Transition - Reflection helps us make sense of life's events and changes.
 * Benchmarking Development - what about having digital clips in a portfolio from k-12?
 * Looking at change over time
 * Collecting rich digital artifacts
 * Voice gives you a sense of authenticity - the personality of the author comes to the front.

Micophrone - belkin +ipod - but they're large files I should be converted Samon USB mic is excent

Web 2l0 tools Collaborative writing - Google docs wikis for (script) Online tools for video editing

DS = richness just not possible in print. Audiences culd be worldwide or small,intimate DS merges student engagement student engagement,