ISTE2014: Dembo's Digital Storytelling

Steve Dembo's session on Storytelling for the YouTube Generation was one that I joined late after leaving an unproductive session -- and I am so glad I did! Of course, he is an excellent presenter and simply being in the room lifted my conference-tired spirits -- but the takeaways -- wow! Dembo shared digital stories from teachers across globe who have remodeled, remixed and renewed digital storytelling formats. I realized just how old-school my storytelling models were!
Some ideas I will be exploring this summer and in the upcoming school year:

• Kinetic typography
• Using social media as a publishing tool during screencasting - a text conversation, a series of facebook posts, comments, replies and likes
• WeVideo, a Chrome app with an incredible range of customization and editing tools. This free app will let place a video within a video allowing students to insert themselves into the screen as they talk about what is playing in the background video. Great idea to download a starter kit of video clips from Discovery Education that students can use as material for creating their remixes.
• Remixing - love his example of remixing a Katy Perry video with goat screams! Yes, it is better! 
• Recapping a story in 1 minute in 1 take. Great Forest Gump example.
• So many more!

I am grateful that he shared his presentation materials - so much shared in so little time, it was difficult to keep up!