digital story project: the story of the three friends
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Digital Story Project: The Story of the Three Friends. Background. Parts of a story & how to write a story Aspects of a fairy tale Characters Based on other characters they know or themselves Create a unique name Describe important characteristics. Based on Rapunzel Lives in a tower - PowerPoint PPT PresentationTRANSCRIPT
Digital Story Project: The Story of the Three Friends
BackgroundParts of a story & how to write a story
Aspects of a fairy tale
CharactersBased on other characters they know or
themselvesCreate a unique nameDescribe important characteristics
Princess LeyaBased on Rapunzel
Lives in a tower
18 years old
Captain Num-Nums
Superhamster
Superpowers: Invisibility Flying Jumping into books Walking through walls Saving people
Renée the Superhero
16 years old
Same superpowers as her pet hamster
Secret lab
Three main characters are best friends
Scary Sid & the Terrible
TarantulaEvil villain of the story
Looks friendly, but isn’t
Land of Mystery
Turns people into stone
Collaboration of ideas from everyone
ProcessWrote & illustrated several pages together each
day
Shortened the story & began recording
Scanned final pictures
Edited digital story (recordings, pictures, sound effects)
Showed to students, asked for feedback
Finalizing Created story books for
each student Included their drawings Included the longer
version of the story
Created DVDs of the story for my students and cooperating teacher
Technology ProblemsNo words in digital version
Hard copies of the bookWanted to keep their drawingsLong version of story
Problems aroseCouldn’t edit recordings in
iMovieHad to rerecord in GaragebandVolume difficulties
Technology BenefitsEnhanced project overall
Sound effectsRead their own story Interesting presentation Incorporated everyone’s work
Illustrations*Voices*Feedback
Exposed students to technologyStudents very excited about final product
Discussion
How do students improve their abilities during the process of creating the story?
In what ways do students grow by creating a final product?
With this lesson, what is more important, the process or the product?
Impact & ReflectionStudents-
Share ideasWork in a groupTechnologyFunMoral – most important part
“Writing this story was the best time of my life. I think it’s the best story I’ve ever read in my whole life.
Impact & ReflectionPractice using technology with students
Working with a small group
Long-term project (3 weeks)
Teach better writing skills – full sentences