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Engaging Students Through Digital Storytelling Amy Moody and Amy Buick
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A Little Bit About Us ▪ Our Background – Classroom teacher/district specialist ▪ Our District – Meriden – Urban district – Students at varying levels of academic achievement – Learners from K to middle school reading levels – Access to technology – labs & iPad cart – Reality: limited resources, short on time, need to multipurpose
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Objective ▪ We will share various tools that can be used for digital storytelling that include both computer based programs and iPad apps. ▪ We’d like you to walk out of our presentation today with a strong group of resources that you can bring back to your room to promote literacy and help your students become digital storytellers. ▪ The tools we share with you today can be used for more than just digital storytelling. We hope you can find ways to use these resources throughout your entire curriculum.
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What is digital storytelling? ▪ What the common definition is… – Combining images, music, characters, situations, and voice together to create narrative stories. ▪ What we see it as… – Promoting literacy and integrating various writing styles (narrative, informational) using multiple technologies through the use of devices such as iPads and computers. – Large umbrella: DS ties in writing, listening, speaking, and technology with Common Core including a push for informational writing. – Today’s teacher has to be resourceful to meet the demand of the CCSS.
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Why We LOVE DS!
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– Combining images, music, characters, situations, and voice together to create narrative stories. ▪ What we see it as… – Promoting literacy and integrating various writing styles (narrative, informational) using multiple technologies through the use of devices such as iPads and computers. – Large umbrella: DS ties in writing, listening, speaking, and technology with Common Core including a push for informational writing. – Today’s teacher has to be resourceful to meet the demand of the CCSS. 5
Why We LOVE DS! ▪ Creates student excitement in literacy and around the writing process – motivation! ▪ Helps students ideas come to life ▪ Engages students ▪ Hands on/Project-based learning ▪ Students get to publish their work in various formats ▪ Reaches all learners
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A Little CCSS… ▪ Digital storytelling marries both writing and technology standards while engaging students with an exciting learning tool. ▪ With the current shift to CCSS and a focus on listening and speaking the resources we’ll share with you today cover a wide range of both CCSS and ISTE standards. ▪ CCSS Anchor Standards – CCSS.ELA-Literacy.CCRA.W.2 Write informative/ explanatory texts to examine and convey complex ideas and information clearly and accurately through the effective selection, organization, and analysis of content. – CCSS.ELA-Literacy.CCRA.W.3 Write narratives to develop real or imagined experiences or events using effective technique, well-chosen details and well-structured event sequences. – CCSS.ELA-Literacy.CCRA.W.4 Produce clear and coherent writing in which the development, organization, and style are appropriate to task, purpose, and audience. – CCSS.ELA-Literacy.CCRA.W.6 Use technology, including the Internet, to produce and publish writing and to interact and collaborate with others. – CCSS.ELA-Literacy.CCRA.W.10 Write routinely over extended time frames (time for research, reflection, and revision) and shorter time frames (a single sitting or a day or two) for a range of tasks, purposes, and audiences. – CCSS.ELA-Literacy.CCRA.SL.6 Adapt speech to a variety of
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sequences. – CCSS.ELA-Literacy.CCRA.W.4 Produce clear and coherent writing in which the development, organization, and style are appropriate to task, purpose, and audience. – CCSS.ELA-Literacy.CCRA.W.6 Use technology, including the Internet, to produce and publish writing and to interact and collaborate with others. – CCSS.ELA-Literacy.CCRA.W.10 Write routinely over extended time frames (time for research, reflection, and revision) and shorter time frames (a single sitting or a day or two) for a range of tasks, purposes, and audiences. – CCSS.ELA-Literacy.CCRA.SL.6 Adapt speech to a variety of contexts and communicative tasks, demonstrating command of formal English when indicated or appropriate. – CCSS.ELA-Literacy.CCRA.SL.6 Acquire and use accurately a range of general academic and domain-specific words and phrases sufficient for reading, writing, speaking, and listening at the college and career readiness level; demonstrate independence in gathering vocabulary knowledge when encountering an unknown term important to comprehension or expression. 7
A Little ISTE too… ▪ ISTE Standards – Creativity and Innovation: Students demonstrate creative thinking, construct knowledge, and develop innovative products and processes using technology. – Communication and collaboration: Students use digital media and environments to communicate and work collaboratively to support individual learning and contribute to the learning of others. – Critical thinking, problem solving, and decision making: Students use critical thinking skills to plan and conduct research, manage projects, solve problems, and make informed decisions using appropriate digital tools and resources. – Technology operations and concepts: Students demonstrate a sound understanding of technology concepts, systems, and operations.
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The Process
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The Process ▪ Just like any other time you incorporate technology into your lesson – be wary of just handing your kids the device/tool and telling them to create. ▪ Students still need to: plan, draft, revise, edit
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resources. – Technology operations and concepts: Students demonstrate a sound understanding of technology concepts, systems, and operations. 8
The Process
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The Process ▪ Just like any other time you incorporate technology into your lesson – be wary of just handing your kids the device/tool and telling them to create. ▪ Students still need to: plan, draft, revise, edit ▪ Using technology to publish work should come at the end of the writing process. ▪ Provide students with graphic organizers/storyboards for planning purposes. These tools will help students be prepared and maximize their time with the technology. ▪ During group tasks students need to delegate who talks when, who is manipulating the device, etc.
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My Story
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My Story
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My Story
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My Story ▪ Why we love it: – Kids of all abilities can use it – Simple interface – Images and tools can all be manipulated by hand – Multiple authors with unlimited books – Apprehensive spellers can use their voice! – Encourage creativity without being overwhelming – Revisit stories to add/edit
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My Story ▪ Endless possibilities… – Create your own story – Narrative story writing/fiction stories – Informational pieces – Interactive science journal – Non-fiction reports – Field trip photo journal – Record highlights of a class event – Book talks
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My Story
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My Story ▪ Endless possibilities… – Create your own story – Narrative story writing/fiction stories – Informational pieces – Interactive science journal – Non-fiction reports – Field trip photo journal – Record highlights of a class event – Book talks
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My Story
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My Story
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Storybird
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Storybird
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Storybird
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Storybird
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Storybird
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Storybird
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Storybird ▪ Why we love it: – Appeals to reluctant artists – Read stories written by other authors using filters – Social networking aspect – Beautiful and engaging artwork that inspires – Art inspires students to write something they never would have before – Free account allows 75 students – Teachers can create assignments
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Storybird ▪ Endless possibilities… – Creative writing pieces in narrative form – Give students purpose – Free write – Practice writing skills – Poetry – Whole group on Smartboard to edit/revise
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Storybird
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Chatterpix Kids
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Storybird ▪ Endless possibilities… – Creative writing pieces in narrative form – Give students purpose – Free write – Practice writing skills – Poetry – Whole group on Smartboard to edit/revise
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Storybird
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Chatterpix Kids
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Chatterpix Kids
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Chatterpix Kids
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Chatterpix Kids ▪ Why we love it: – The kids LOVE it! – Simple interface – Easy to use independently – Images can be saved from the internet or students can take a picture of hand drawn images they have created. – Students can also use the camera in Chatterpix to take a picture of themselves for an autobiographical project. – Exposes students to ‘point of view’.
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Chatterpix Kids ▪ Endless possibilities… – Biographies – Character Analysis – Book Talk – Research based projects – Poetry – Math Topics – Science Projects
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Chatterpix Kids
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Chatterpix Kids
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Paint.Net
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Paint.Net
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Paint.Net ▪ Why we love it: – Students get to wear their work
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Chatterpix Kids
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Chatterpix Kids
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Paint.Net
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Paint.Net
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Paint.Net ▪ Why we love it: – Students get to wear their work – High level of engagement with end product in mind – Original student artwork – Versatile – Most schools have access to Microsoft Word
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Paint.Net ▪ Endless possibilities… – 2nd grade enrichment program – Elaborative detail project – Narrative story – Informational piece – Science/S.S. topics
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Puppet Pals 2
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Puppet Pals 2
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Puppet Pals 2
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Puppet Pals 2 ▪ Why we love it: – All kids LOVE it! – Great opportunity for students to practice speaking, fluency, and language skills – Helps students who are reluctant to speak in front of a crowd overcome their nervousness – Students get practice creating natural sounding dialogue – Kids can use it independently or with a group – Kids can star in their own puppet show – Tons of locations and characters – Encourages creativity
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Puppet Pals 2 ▪ Endless possibilities… – Storytelling (K/2nd grade enrichment) – Extended ending of a book
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overcome their nervousness – Students get practice creating natural sounding dialogue – Kids can use it independently or with a group – Kids can star in their own puppet show – Tons of locations and characters – Encourages creativity 41
Puppet Pals 2 ▪ Endless possibilities… – Storytelling (K/2nd grade enrichment) – Extended ending of a book – Instructional videos – Book reports – Historical retells – Characters from a story read exchange dialogue to explain major obstacle in a story – Recreate a scene from a book
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Make Beliefs Comix
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Make Beliefs Comix
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Make Beliefs Comix
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Make Beliefs Comix ▪ Why we love it: – Kids love comic genre – Practice with conversation and language structure – Encourages use of imagination – Promotes creativity – Write in different languages – Used across all subjects – Upload screenshots of comic to blog – Tons of resources on website
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Make Beliefs Comix ▪ Endless possibilities… – Short stories – Creative writing assignments – Practice new vocabulary
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Make Beliefs Comix ▪ Endless possibilities… – Short stories – Creative writing assignments – Practice new vocabulary – Writing tools/prompts section – Autobiographical comics – Demonstrate understanding of topic
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Make Beliefs Comix
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Closing Remarks ▪ Questions? ▪ Thanks for being a great audience : )
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