1. Digital Story Project: The Story of the Three Friends

2. 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

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

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

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

6. 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

7. 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

8. 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

9. 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

10. 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

11. 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?

12. 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.

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