Digital StorytellingMarch 3, 2008

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ObjectiveTo learn how to use a variety of tools to retell a story.

To increase our knowledge and skills using technology.

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Your TaskYou will be split into groups, given a set of tools, and then assigned a story to retell.

When you are finished you will post your story on a blog.

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But Technology is Hard!It can seem daunting at first, but it gets easier.

The students understand that these tools are new and that you’re learning together.

It’s worth it!Books used to be cutting edge technology!

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RationaleStudent Engagement - technology is motivating

Higher Level Thinking - All students can participate at their own level of Bloom’s taxonomy

Media Literacy - our student’s live in a digital world

Uses 11 of Marcia Tate’s 20 Instructional Strategies for Brain Based Learning

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GroupsGroup Members

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OverviewGroup Story

# of People

Tools Location

1 Three Little Pigs 2 Kerpoof! Library

2 Three Little Pigs 4 Comic Life/iMac Staff Room

3Goldilocks and the Three

Bears4 TuxPaint/PhotoStory 3 Computer Lab

4Goldilocks and the Three

Bears4

Digital Camera/VoiceThread

Art Science

5 Little Red Riding Hood 4TuxPaint/Comiqs/

SMART BoardGrade 3

6 Little Red Riding Hood 4MS Paint/PowerPoint/

SlideShareComputer Lab

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Let’s Go!

Those stories won’t tell themselves!

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