Three Day Road Electronic Ideagram: Telling a Digital Story An ideagram is a visual representation of a theme. It’s a creative collection of powerful quotes, personal reactions, dialogue, photographs, artwork and other images including video clips. It may also include music that enhances the theme. All these elements work together to develop the theme, or message, of your novel in a creative way. Digital stories derive their power through weaving images, music, narrative and voice together, thereby giving deep dimension and vivid colour to characters, situations, and insights. Choose one of the following universal themes as it applies to your novel: Good and Evil, Courage, Survival, Power of Family & Friends, Persecution, Hope (or another teacher-approved theme) Develop an electronic ideagram, or digital story, that demonstrates how the theme was developed in your book then extend the theme to everyday life. Download images from the internet, or take your own digital photos to tell a digital story. Enhance your story with theme-related music, appropriate quotes and dialogue. When you have completed the reading, you will create an ideagram using iMovie or Explain Everything (or some other app that provides the ability to insert pictures and audio) and you will then present your ideagram to the class. Criteria for the Electronic Ideagram/Digital Story Include at least 3 quotes that clearly relate to your theme. These MUST come directly from the book you’ve read. o All quotes must be copied accurately and include the page number and the title of the book you took them from. Including an explanation would be helpful, particularly when you present this to the class. 5 – 7 other pieces of evidence to support your theme. These could include quotes from other sources, poems, songs, speeches, movies etc. You MUST credit your sources (example: give the name of the poem and author, NOT just the website you got them from). Include at least 10 images that represent your theme with an explanation. You may use photographs, artwork, or video clips—again, please credit your sources and explain why the images are significant (either verbally and/or with text). Include a title or opening that grabs the viewer’s attention Use correct spelling, grammar, punctuation etc. Ensure your ideagram is pleasing to the eye (aesthetically pleasing) Make sure it is also well organized, creative, enthusiastically and clearly presented Your overall production should be about 2 to 4 minutes in length Planning Steps 1. Brainstorm an idea for your story. Consider your audience and purpose. 2. Develop a narrative script. How are you going to tell the story? What are you going to say? 3. Create a simple storyboard to determine the sequence of the story. 4. Collect or create images for the story—use the internet or take your own digital photos. Beware of copyright infringement. 5. Identify music for soundtrack—use your own CDs/MP3s or go to http://www.freeplaymusic.com/ to download appropriate sound clips. Research The following web pages will give you a plethora of samples, links and ideas for completing this project. Beware of plagiarism! http://digitalstorytelling.coe.uh.edu/ http://electronicportfolios.com/digistory/ Ideagram/Digital Story Evaluation: Aspect: Not Yet Meeting Expectations Meeting Expectations Fully Meeting Expectations Exceeding Expectations Imagery, text, Creatively and effectively uses imagery, text, sound and dialogue to develop the theme; wellintegrated (minimal to moderate) Theme Development Use of imagery, text, sound and dialogue Emotional impact and use of multimedia Irrelevant imagery, dialogue; theme is undeveloped Does not include a variety of multimedia; has little emotional impact Makes some connections between the imagery, text, dialogue and sounds; may exclude some multimedia elements Multimedia presentation is straightforward and basic Meaning Ideas and information purpose or point of view unclear relies on retelling or listing Use of detail ideas are not developed; information may be misinterpreted Form opening weak introduction organization and abrupt conclusion sequence conclusion sequence may be confusing relevant reactions and ideas straightforward and direct uses details and examples; some may be inaccurate sound and dialogue clearly represents the theme The multimedia use attempts to create an emotional impact; demonstrates some original thinking. reactions and ideas with some insight may speculate, generalize, attempts to extend the theme accurate details, The multimedia use brings out emotions in the viewer; the imagery “speaks for itself” some insight and originality attempts to make an emotional impact; effectively extends theme beyond the book details, examples, examples; logical explanations and explanations develop analysis or arguments introduction is often effective; middle and end undeveloped often starts strong, then develops in predictable ways strong opening; well-defined middle and end “stream of consciousness” logical sequence and connections logical sequence and connections; presentation flows effectively