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Digital Story Project: The Story of the Three Friends

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. Based on Rapunzel Lives in a tower

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Digital Story Project: The Story of the Three Friends

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

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

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

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

  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

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