Thursday, May 10, 2012

Digital Story

When we got to class, we had the opportunity to look through everyone's storybook.  I enjoyed seeing all the different ideas from each group.  I think it is very important to give students their results, right away.  Letting the students see everyone's final result has a positive impact.  Even I was wondering when we were going to see the other groups project, yesterday.

Today gave me a better understanding about our Digital Story Project.  Watching each example video made me think of many different ideas that I could use for my project.  They were really good stories and each had many great characteristics of each of the seven elements.  Some were tear-jerkers: sad stories make me sad!

I think using the outline and the student example will help me out, when writing my lesson.  When writing the Outcomes, making sure to follow, "As a result...(these) are the outcomes." I'm glad Dr. Schmidt shared this information.

The greatest piece about this project is the reflection part.  I think this is a great way for students to assess their own work and actually make connections with the target and their own experiences.  A great way to have technology connected in the classroom is to record your students, either during their work-time, lessons or presentations.  A great example of having students record themselves was when one of the girls in our class used an iPad in a teacher/student conference (to record themselves) and then review what they talked about.  The student could use this recording to go back and get ideas for his story.   What a cool idea!!


Refreshing our minds about Copyright rules was a good idea.  I totally forgot all the exact rules.  And I thought her question was funny, "What is 10% of 2 minutes?"  We all know that answer but for some reason most of our minds were thinking 20 seconds- DUH! I think that would be a fun question to ask a older group of students--keeping them on their toes and seeing who is really analyzing the question.

I'm excited to create my own story--now I just need to decide on one idea!





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  1. DanielleMay 10, 2012 at 9:49 AM

    I also loved that idea brought up in class about using the iPad to get a student's thoughts out and organized! That's awesome! I also think going through the examples and the templates for the digital story was helpful and got me thinking, but I, too, need to come up with my own idea to use.

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  2. MelissaMay 10, 2012 at 11:28 AM

    The "What is ISU?" storybooks were all very neat. The pictures in them were great as well! It is so interesting to see every groups take on the project. The same goes for the digital story as well. Each person was given, I believe, the same assignment but everyone takes their spin on it and makes it their own.

    I'm in the same boat as both of you, Danielle and Rebecca, I have no clue what to do mine on. However, I'm sure once the ideas come to us they will all turn out great. It'll be neat to watch a few after they are all finished.

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  3. MikeMay 10, 2012 at 4:31 PM

    The digital storytelling project is great for the students to reflect and make connections with their experiences and the goals of the lessons. The digital storytelling projects we watched today were awesome. The story on the young boy was very inspiring and one I will never forget.

    I was very happy to go over the copyright rules as well. I forgot the rules as well.

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  4. Dr. CMay 14, 2012 at 12:12 PM

    There are so many stories to tell --- this blog group is doing a great job of reacting to and discussing issues brought up in class. Glad I shared those "What is ISU?" books. Just reminds us as teachers that when we ask students to work so hard on projects - it is important that they have a venue to share!

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