DST: Digital Story Telling
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My digital story focuses on my personal journey as an educator so far. My path was surely an alternative one with plenty of bumps in the road. Please watch and enjoy.
Creating a digital story is a process which includes many steps. Check out the method to the madness below.
Story Map
The Story Map is the first step in making a digital story tangible. After understanding the core of the story you wish to tell, the story map acts as a template for expressing the actual ideas to be presented. Utilizing an understanding of how stories function, story maps facilitate a bridge between the elements of someones story and the practical application of story telling. To see my map, click the link below.
Story Script
The script is the heart of the story, or at least one of the major anatomical systems. Writing the script is essentially writing the story. Once you have done that, images and music can be added to enhance the thematic interpretation. To read my script please click the link below.
Story Table
The story table is where you put everything together and is the last step before heading into production. Using multiple columns, the story table allows you to break up sections of your text and pair them with audio/visual cues. To see my story table, click the link below.
Digital Story Rubric (scoring guide)
The link below provides an example scoring guide for use with Digital Stories in the classroom. This guide was specifically tailored to utilize the language of the AP English standards for grades 10-11.
Digital Story Reflection
It is important to always reflect on your practice, both inside and outside the classroom. The following reflection serves as a space to recognize the value of new media in the context of enhancing classroom instruction. Read the reflection by clicking the link below.
Anthropology & Technology
The importance of technology in our society is one that is, and has been, steadily increasing for decades. At some point we have to start discussing what this means in terms of education. Not only is technology literacy crucial to success in our current society, but technology can be a powerful tool for learning within the classroom. So, in an effort to better understand technology's growing position in the classroom, my peers and I set out to the I.T. department of our local school district.. We wanted to know what, if any, technological culture existed within our school. We had plenty of questions: What types of technology are available to students and staff? What plans are in place to support the growing influence of technology? How easy is it to access said technology? At what level is the school cooperating to incorporate its usage, and many more? Curious to know the answers? A link to the interview has been provided below.
Online Resources
Flocabulary is an online database
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While Google is generally just the starting point for "good" research, Google scholar is a great tool for finding peer reviewed academic scholarship. (It can also generate citations!)
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Ever have the need to use a Youtube
video offline? Keepvid provides a simple interface for downloading and "keeping" them as mp4 files. Animoto is a free, accessible, and easy to use tool for the creation of digital stories in the classroom. It is as simple as clicking and dragging media onto a pre-built template. While not the most sophisticated video editing software, Animoto more than makes up for this in style and ease of operation.
Common Lit takes a collection of classical/contemporary literature and organizes it by theme and grade level. It is a teacher created website and focuses on what teachers believe their students should be reading.
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Project Gutenberg is an online database of public access literature. This site provides free digital copies of countless literary classics. Did I mention FREE!
Let's face it, creating scoring guides can be hard work. Lighten the load a bit with Rubistar. Rubistar eliminates the need to spend unnecessary time manipulating spreadsheets, and offers countless pre-built templates for a wide range of academic endeavors.
Newsela is an excellent resource for exploring and implementing text sets. Newsela provides free access to current event articles across multiple disciplines, as well as article accompaniments at various lexile levels.
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