Please give us an update of your storytelling projects. Please post a paragraph or so telling us how what kind of project you are doing.
Create your own entry. Everyone involved in the project is an author of this blog. So, please create your own entry with your name in the title.
Tell us about both projects. Each of you is doing one project on your own, and one with your students. So, please tell us about both of them. Even if you haven't started, tell us what you are thinking of doing. And feel free to comment to each other's posting.
Questions? If you have questions about anything, from how to do something technical, to how to proceed with a story, feel free to post it to this blog or to ask me directly.
Looking forward to hearing your stories!
Jason
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We are nearly complete with our family and heritage projects. The students were to tell about their family, themselves, and their culture/heritage. To do this they collected pictures and stories from their parents and then presented them using Keynote. They students then narrated their stories into their Keynote. I have done the same project. We another project in the works but are yet to start it.
We are nearly complete with our family and heritage projects. The students were to tell about their family, themselves, and their culture/heritage. To do this they collected pictures and stories from their parents and then presented them using Keynote. They students then narrated their stories into their Keynote. I have done the same project. We another project in the works but are yet to start it.
I have been moderately involved with Tyler's Family and Heritage Project. It's provided a good context to teach students how to cite sources from internet images to print resources. This has also been a good opportunity to introduce digital reference tools that are available via the Alaska Library Network digital pipeline. Having a mobile learning lab with enough laptops for all students has really enhanced the instruction.
I am also working with a group of
4th/5th grade students on a digital video production. Students have chosen a classic fairy tale that needs to be written as a fractured tale. Group sizes are large (~12 students) which presents some management challenges. However, kids have finished up narratives and are currently storyboarding. Scripts will be developed upon completion of storyboards (although it may have been better to script first). When the story is solid, major production will get underway. I'm really looking forward to working with iMovie and using sound effects, transitions, lighting, camera angles, heavy editing to produce the story. Ambitious, eh?
My project plan is to produce a multimedia video to honor my mom, who'll be celebrating her 80th birthday this summer. I'd like to integrate still photos, old movie footage, sketches, and audio anecdotes from family members throughout the production.
I was feeling overwhelmed by the scope of the student project but after reading Jason's book I have more confidence that we will be able to accomplish our goals. My advanced Spanish kids have completed a unit on Sports and I am having them each do a personal narrative on how their own involvement in a sport has changed them or helped them grow as a person. It is a small class and a variety of sports are represented from swimming and basketball to x-country skiing and running. The project will be simplified through the use of still images rather than video. We ran into time-consuming editing issues the last time we did an iMovie project, so I think this modification will help.
My own project is a work in progress:) I am interviewing my dad about a family tradition: roasted chestnuts during the holiday season. The lighting inside is greenish, and the sound spotty, but I may have the chance to have him voice-over with the logitech headset so...we'll see.
We are hoping to adjust Jason's school visit as our program registration has been announced and the dates force us into an abbreviated schedule the day Dr. Ohler is set to come and guide us. We're crossing our fingers :)
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