Digital storytelling combines the art of storytelling with a variety of multimedia components, such as sound, music, digital pictures, video clips and text. Digital stories usually last between two and ten minutes. Topics used can include personal tales, retellings of historical events, teaching/introducing a specific subject to an audience, and various other purposes.
DISTCO 2008 is a “Digital Storytelling Contest” hosted by School of Science and Technology (SST). The contest will be open to not only SST students but also all schools surrounding San Antonio and in the larger extent, Texas.
The DISTCO 2008 asks students to submit their digital stories in a certain time frame and manner for the contest. The competition will be held solely online through this website. The project has certain benefits. It is a way of exposing and challenging the students in a competition where theY can show their certain skills in multimedia and technology.
There will also be a research aspect of the project. This project will also contribute to investigation of educational uses of digital storytelling in K-12. The results of the research will be published and shared in SITE 2009 conference. Results also will be available trough the Official website of DISTCO 2008.
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Contest Setting up & Preparations |
May 2008-August 2008 |
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September 2008 |
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Registration & Project Submission |
Starts October 15, 2008 |
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Submission Deadline |
December 1, 2008 |
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Judging & Evaluations |
December 1-December 15 |
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Announcements of the Winners & Awarding Rewards |
February 11, 2009 |
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Research Findings will be released |
March 2009 |
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6 responses so far ↓
Melike // November 19, 2008 at 3:46 am |
Ok it is really cool but i dont get what we do in it
Iqra // November 19, 2008 at 3:48 am |
Great, I think I will participate in it. It sounds really interesting.
Jackie // November 19, 2008 at 9:43 pm |
Well i’m seriously interested in digital storytelling! it is sooo wicked awesome! i’d love to try it!
yeah anyway, this is cool.
-Jackie.
bdogan // November 19, 2008 at 11:40 pm |
I will post more information soon. Keep checking this website!
Taythi Truong // November 24, 2009 at 5:05 am |
Digital storytelling is fun and creative. I like making animations, too. It also has some action for people who are bored.
Neha // January 6, 2010 at 11:18 am |
I am so excited to do distco this year and really looking forward to it ! I will even use distco l8r if i need to cause it soooooooooo cool !
***Neha Noman***