Digital+Video


 * Create Your Own Story in Diverse Digital Formats: Integration and Presentation of Knowledge and Ideas via Digital Storytelling **

//__Speaking and Listening - Comprehension and Collaboration:__// 1. Prepare for and participate effectively in a range of conversations and collaborations with diverse partners, building on others’ ideas and expressing their own clearly and persuasively. 2. Integrate and evaluate information presented in diverse media and formats, including visually, quantitatively, and orally. 3. Evaluate a speaker’s point of view, reasoning, and use of evidence and rhetoric. //__Speaking and Listening - Presentation of Knowledge and Ideas:__// 4. Present information, findings, and supporting evidence such that listeners can follow the line of reasoning and the organization, development, and style are appropriate to task, purpose, and audience. 5. Make strategic use of digital media and visual displays of data to express information and enhance understanding of presentations. 6. Adapt speech to a variety of contexts and communicative tasks, demonstrating command of formal English when indicated or appropriate. //__Reading - Integration of Knowledge and Ideas:__// 7. Integrate and evaluate content presented in diverse media and formats, including visually and quantitatively, as well as in words.
 * Related Anchor Standards**

Digital stories are multimedia texts consisting of still images, soundtrack, narration, transitions, print, and perhaps video. Digital stories provide affordances of aural, oral, visual, linguistic, temporal, and written modes. The overall design of digital stories requires the layering of these modes in ways that intensify the intended messages (Siegel, 2006). Moreover, the composing process for digital stories utilizes both foundational and new literacies (Skinner & Hagood, 2008; Sylvester & Greenidge, 2009).
 * What is digital storytelling?**

Here is a video about what a digital storytelling is: []

**Examples of Digital Stories** Here is an example of digital storytelling using Photo Story:

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Here is an example of a digital story in response to a book. The book is //Elijah of Buxton//. These students used PowerPoint.

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Here is a digital story of "The Princess and the Flightless Bird":

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Here is a digital story that is told by a ten-year-old boy about his life living in the projects (click on the one called "Helpless"): []

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 * Here is a link to a video that gives reasons to use digital storytelling with students:**

This link provides an excellent introduction to using digital storytelling in the classroom: []
 * Here are some important resources to learn more about digital storytelling:**

[|http://www.storycenter.org] This is the Center for Digital Storytelling, an international nonprofit training, project development, and research organization that assists youth and adults around the world in using digital media tools to craft and record meaningful stories from their lives and share these stories in ways that enable learning, build community, and inspire justice.

[] Digital Storyteller is a web-based tool that offers teachers and students //frictionless// access to digital images and materials that enable them to construct compelling personal narratives. Digital Storyteller was developed as an initiative of Primary Access. You might check out this site to play around with making a digital story before making an original one of your own.

Here is an example of a digital video for social action writing:

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Here is an example of using video for a response to literature by the same student. (Warning: the video gets a little gross! Otherwise, it's worth watching!)

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Here is an example of a student's book trailer for //Hatchet,// by Gary Paulsen:

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Here is an example of a response to //The Lightning Thief// told as a local news story by 4th graders in New York City:

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Here is a video by 5th graders explaining a Physics concept:

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Here is a 3rd grade class's video in honor of Black History Month:

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Some excellent free sources of video for classroom use:







__**Do Now**__**:** Using Flipcams, write and film a 2 minute persuasive or explanatory video. Choose from below: Here are some FLIP camera directions and tips. In your group, each member selects a role to play during the activity: Short introduction to editing with iMovie. With support and guidance from facilitators, begin the editing process of your short video using iMovie, Movie Maker, or other video editing software. Check out this [|tutorial on Movie Maker]! Check out this great tutorial on iMovie by Wesley Fryer. It will get you up and running in no time.
 * Step One:**
 * 1) Write and film a video for an audience of teachers convincing them of the benefits of teaching digital storytelling in an ELA classroom.
 * 2) Write and film a video for an audience of administrators convincing them of the need to include in their budget money for a proposed digital storytelling lab.
 * Facilitator - Guide the group to complete the process and collaboratively answer the question within the designated time frame.
 * Time Keeper - Keep the group on schedule.
 * Provocateur - Help provoke the group to think deeply about what they are learning.
 * Scriptwriter - Take the lead in creating the group's constructed response.
 * Videographer - Take the lead in directing/recording the group's two-minute video response.
 * Researcher - Take the lead in finding some facts to support your response and check for copyright and fair use.
 * Step Two:**

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Reflect with your group on your learning and application to your teaching. Finish your video during Design Studio and post it to your Project Page.
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