Digital Story Project: The Story of the Three Friends

Background Parts of a story & how to write a story Aspects of a fairy tale Characters Based on other characters they know or themselves Create a unique name Describe important characteristics

Princess Leya Based on Rapunzel Lives in a tower 18 years old

Captain Num-Nums Superhamster Superpowers: Invisibility Flying Jumping into books Walking through walls Saving people

Renée the Superhero 16 years old Same superpowers as her pet hamster Secret lab Three main characters are best friends

Scary Sid & the Terrible Tarantula Evil villain of the story Looks friendly, but isn’t Land of Mystery Turns people into stone Collaboration of ideas from everyone

Process Wrote & illustrated several pages together each day Shortened the story & began recording Scanned final pictures Edited digital story (recordings, pictures, sound effects) Showed to students, asked for feedback

Finalizing Created story books for each student Included their drawings Included the longer version of the story Created DVDs of the story for my students and cooperating teacher

Technology Problems No words in digital version Hard copies of the book Wanted to keep their drawings Long version of story Problems arose Couldn’t edit recordings in iMovie Had to rerecord in Garageband Volume difficulties

Technology Benefits Enhanced project overall Sound effects Read their own story Interesting presentation Incorporated everyone’s work Illustrations *Voices* Feedback Exposed students to technology Students very excited about final product

Discussion How do students improve their abilities during the process of creating the story? In what ways do students grow by creating a final product? With this lesson, what is more important, the process or the product?

Impact & Reflection Students- Share ideas Work in a group Technology Fun Moral – most important part “Writing this story was the best time of my life. I think it’s the best story I’ve ever read in my whole life.

Impact & Reflection Practice using technology with students Working with a small group Long-term project (3 weeks) Teach better writing skills – full sentences