Six-Word Story, Six Unique Shots: Enhancing Writing Through Multimedia 

Explore an activity that brings the writing process to life with digital storytelling. A simple six-word story, created as a video with six unique camera shots, allows students the ability to tell a powerful visual story. This One Best Thing guides educators through a unique project that addresses the fundamentals of film making as well as the digital storytelling process. Access additional activity tool by visiting my RESOURCES page at the top. Visit examples from around the world on GSNN or the original student videos. If you don't have an Apple device, you may download the PDF. 

Six Word Story, Six Unique Shots additional instructional tools

The images in the this slideshow are supplemental materials to my Multi-Touch Book "Six Word Story, Six Unique Shots"

Terrific student example of a Six-Word Story, Six Unique Shots video

Photo courtesy of Hannah's Media Blog

The Shooting Gallery

Want to try more than the 10 cinematic shots illustrated in my book? No problem! Download
The Shooting Gallery by Jon Corippo and have your students try any of the 19 most famous
cinematic shots. Have your students then choose six of those shots for their video story. 

Create a Six-Word video using the app Clips

Don offers his tips for using the iOS app Clips in the classroom. These tips were learned through using the app, leveraging the lessons from Apple Distinguished Educators, and student feedback. These tips are offered as a PDF. Click here to download.  Also follow #ClassroomClips and @Gimme5clips on Twitter. 

Six-Word video story and storyboard made using the Clips app  by @JennyGrabiec. 

Need help editing your Six-Word, Six Shot videos? Head over to my Editing with iOS iMovie page

Editing in iMovie on any iOS device can be simple, especially for short videos. Click the image to the left or here to visit Don's page and watch his short, fully annotated and narrated video tutorials.

Six-Word Video stories submitted from student around the world on GSNN

Click the image to visit the Global Student News Network and see student and teacher Six-Word Video stories from around the world. CONTACT me if you would like your student work, of any kind, featured on GSNN. And follow us on Twitter @GlobalSNN and #GSNN. 

Inspirational ideas to share

Hear of the origins of the 6 word memoir and the boardwalk talks with Smitty "the mayor of his section" and how a simple request lead to a movement of capturing people's stories in just 6 words. Larry delivers and encourages the use of 6 words to heal, build community, collaborate and connect. Example of 6....Small idea with big lasting effect! Connecting people through 6 words? Unbelievable the power of this idea.

LARRY SMITH is the founder and editor of SMITH Magazine, and its younger cousin, SMITH Teens. SMITH Magazine is best known for launching the Six-Word Memoir® project, which is a bestselling books series and a global phenomenon. Anticipating the microblogging explosion, SMITH originally launched the Six-Word Memoir project in November 2006 in partnership with Twitter with a simple online challenge asking: “Can you tell your life story in six words?” Now more then 1 million Six-Word Memoirs have been shared across SMITH Mag sites. This talk was given at a TEDx event using the TED conference format but independently organized by a local community. Learn more at http://ted.com/tedx