Digital 

Storytelling

Communication and presentation skills are important capabilities in school and life. In this program, Years 7-8 and VCAL students will explore digital technologies to support communication to different audiences using the creative Adobe Spark suite.

Emerging digital technologies offer students a variety of creative ways to communicate. During this 1 hour session, Adobe Spark Video is used to turn the stories into narrated video shorts. This web-based platform enables users with no prior video editing experience to produce high quality outcomes.

The software introduces the basic concepts of video production, sequencing and narration and serves as a starting point for students' who want to move on to more complex editing suites.

Intended learning outcomes:

• Investigate how visual and multimodal texts enhance and layer meaning

• Create literary texts that adapt stylistic features encountered in Flash Fiction

• Use Adobe Spark Video to create, edit and publish a multimodal text

• Identify different ways to represent ideas using multimodal texts

• Use randomisation and shuffling to stimulate thinking when experiencing a creativity block

Video class may be live or pre-recorded. Written tutorial is also available in the resource pack. This program can be tailored for extended engagement

– min 3, 1 hour sessions.