Showing posts with label Digital Storytelling. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Digital Storytelling. Show all posts
Tuesday, April 24, 2012
Planned Digital Storytelling Project
As you can see by the date of this blog, I have been avoiding this topic like the plague. The reason is my inability to commit to an idea. I've changed from narrating a book already written like "Chicka Chicka Boom Boom," Numbers, Alphabet, High Frequency Words, Life Cycles... The list goes on. I think I am over-thinking this project way too much. So here goes - a commitment. (Unless anyone has a suggestion ;) ) My digital story will be about Earth Day. I will make a simple story breaking down the complex vocabulary such as the 3R's: reduce, reuse, recycle, along with environment, climate, etc. I have found that many books out there are still a little too advanced for my little ones, so I end up showing the pictures and paraphrasing them. This way I can choose my own simple pictures and tell about them in a way 5-year-olds can understand, and yet older ones will enjoy as well. Let me know what you think.
Tuesday, April 3, 2012
Digital Storytelling
While exploring The Best Digitial Storytelling Resouces, I loved viewing the 1st grade digital report about Arizona. I hadn't quite understood how programs like iMovie could be used by the lower elementary level until I read about this teacher's assignment to her students. It is so simple that it had never occurred to me to use technology in this way. I could absolutely envision my Kindergartners illustrating their ideas and narrating them on camera.
The video 50+ Web 2.0 Ways to Tell a Story really broke things down for me in simpler form. It's amazing that there are so many resources out there, and yet most educators are completely unaware. Just today my Librarian was telling me how frustrated she is that she has to teach the 5th graders a unit about Waterbury and Connecticut and could not find a way to make it interesting. I was proud that I could share with her my Storybird and Animoto experiences. I hope that the more I learn I will be able to share with colleagues, just as the NETS teacher standard states, "Engage in Professional Growth and Leadership... by promoting and demonstrating the effective use of digital tools and resources."
The video 50+ Web 2.0 Ways to Tell a Story really broke things down for me in simpler form. It's amazing that there are so many resources out there, and yet most educators are completely unaware. Just today my Librarian was telling me how frustrated she is that she has to teach the 5th graders a unit about Waterbury and Connecticut and could not find a way to make it interesting. I was proud that I could share with her my Storybird and Animoto experiences. I hope that the more I learn I will be able to share with colleagues, just as the NETS teacher standard states, "Engage in Professional Growth and Leadership... by promoting and demonstrating the effective use of digital tools and resources."
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