Digital Storytelling Workshop Week Three

The third session of the Digital Storytelling Workshop sponsored by the Palm Springs Unified School District took place in Matt Hamilton's classroom at Cathedral City High School on Saturday, Feb. 20, 2010.

Teachers, specialists and administrators from across the district are taking advantage of the workshop offered by Hamilton, Lee Grafton, media mentor David Vogel (left) and music director Michael Boustead.

Projects from this workshop will be entered in the Digicom Showcase May 4, 2010 at Palm Springs High School.

DATA STUDENTS PRODUCE REALITY SHOW SIZZLE REEL

Students in Matt Hamilton's Digital Storytelling Class at Cathedral City High School recently finished shooting a sizzle reel for Healing Horses founders Marcia Levine and Gabriele Lawrence who are hoping to turn their everyday challenges into a reality television show. Levine said that Melissa Rivers is interested in producing the reality show based on the reel put together by the DATA students who started shooting footage in November and finished the editing in February of 2010.

Healing Horses Sizzle Reel from Matt Hamilton on Vimeo.

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Digital Storytelling Workshop Kicks Off

Sixteen certificated staff, including teachers, specialists, and administrators, took part in a digital storytelling workshop Saturday, Jan. 9, 2010 at Cathedral City High School.

Led by Digital Arts Technology Academy Coordinator Matt Hamilton, media mentor David Vogel, and education technology specialist Lee Grafton. The initial workshop covered concepts of digital storytelling, brainstorming a story, and building a story using Apple applications iMovie, Garageband, iPhoto and iTunes.

All participants in the workshop will be submitting a project for for the Digicom Showcase, May 4, 2010, 6:30 p.m.–8:30 p.m. at Palm Springs High School.

Above, teacher Jennifer O’Connor (left) and PSUSD English Language Arts Specialist Kim Monnie discuss their storyboards.