Meridian Stories Digital Storytelling Challenges

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The Why and The Who

Meridian Stories offers teachers and students the opportunity to creatively develop and produce short digital stories about core curricula in Language Arts, History and STEAM. Founded in 2011, Meridian Stories is one vital solution to the problem of how to integrate the wonders and complexities of digital literacy into the classroom. For students, the digital realm is their library. It’s their communication platform. It’s their social life. It’s their source of knowledge. It’s their language. It’s a full-blown communication spectrum the breadth and depth of which is unprecedented in history.

Scene from DASH

Scene from DASH from the The Game’s Afoot Challenge

How do we best prepare our kids to be meaningful contributors to this digitally literate universe in order to succeed post formal education?

Meridian Stories is part of the answer.

The What

BEGIN by downloading any one (or all!) of these six Digital Storytelling Challenges: full three to four week projects with guidance from start to finish, including an evaluation rubric, standards correlations, essential questions and student proficiencies.

Digital Storytelling Resource Centers

Looking for more SUPPORT for how your student will research, develop, create, and produce their curricular-driven digital stories? Explore below!

Artists & Innovators

Artists and Innovators is a series of short videos that feature experts in the field of media, creativity, production and the performing arts, talking about their craft.

Creative How-To Guides

The Creative How-To Guides are a series of short documents that are designed to provide the students with guidance about creating stories inside of various media formats.

Production How-To Guides

The Production How-To Guides are a series of short documents and video tutorials that are designed to provide the students with some creative and logistical guidance about media production.

Game & Animation How-To Guides

The Game and Animation How-To Guides are a series of short documents that are designed to provide the students with guidance about utilizing gaming and animation techniques in digital storytelling.

Digital Rules Center

The Digital Rules Center is a series of short documents that are designed to provide the students with clear guidance about the rules for using content — music, video, pictures and text — that is other than your own, inside of your Meridian Stories digital story.

Check Out the Book

Brett Pierce, the Founder and Executive Director of Meridian Stories, puts digital storytelling into your hands in his new book from Heinemann, Expanding Literacy: Bringing Digital Storytelling into Your Classroom.

How can we make meaningful, thoughtful digital storytelling a standard, best practice in schools? Expanding Literacy offers a specific project-based learning angle that can be meshed with any traditional and non-traditional curricular topic and is flexible enough to be applied to almost any content area.

Expanding Literacy book cover