Digital Narratives for Digital Natives AATE/ALEA Conference – Bridging Divides

1. Digital Narratives for Digital Natives AATE/ALEA Conference – Bridging Divides Saturday 11th July 2009

2. The Joy of words! They give our narratives shape… • Using Word: • From our younger students… • Preps/Grade Ones – writing their spelling words in sentences – exploring different font/size and colour • To our older students… • Writing straight into Word rather than handwriting a draft first – much easier to edit, less tedious! • Other word helpers • Right mouse click on the word and select synonyms (usually only works for the root word)…this will also give you antonyms • Open a browser window and go to an online thesaurus or dictionary • www.answers.com • http://thesaurus.reference.com/ • For those obscure and rare words - http://phrontistery.info/index.html - a great site for exploring the wonder and joy of words!

3. Answers.com

4. Thesaurus.com

5. The Phrontistery

6. To write good narratives you have to read good narratives: • Use Google booksand Amazon.com to find some examples of good narratives. • If you register for either Google or Amazon you are able to search for books and search inside those books. You can search for a line of text or references to a particular character. • This is not to replace the reading of books but to support the books you read in your class. • You have read Anne of Green Gables and you want to find a particular paragraph or part of the story quickly and easily. • There is limited access to a particular book in the classroom

9. Amazon.com

10. Wordsift Visualise the narrative You Tube demonstration of WordSift

11. Wordle

12. Kerpoof

13. Add your own drawing The final product…

14. PHOTOSTORY 3 FOR WINDOWS Download Media player 10 or 11 first: http://www.microsoft.com/windows/windowsmedia/default.mspx Download PhotoStory 3 for Windows http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/using/digitalphotography/photostory/default.mspx PhotoStory3 for Windows includes features that enable you to create a slideshow with your digital pictures, edit your pictures, create your story with original music and add narration. This software offers an excellent introduction to digital story telling.

15. RESOURCES: Digital Storytelling http://digitalstorytelling.coe.uh.edu/ http://www.wsd1.org/digitalstorytelling/ Examples http://itdp.providence.edu/Help/Video.htm#PSSamples Making a story from a single photo. http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/using/digitalphotography/photostory/tips/create.mspx

18. PhotoStory 3 for Windows plays the movie in Media Player

19. Glogster

20. Reading Stories Conveying a message: Anti-smoking posters http://s001.philippac.glogster.com/Annie-smoking-poster/ http://s009.philippac.glogster.com/Lewis-Glog/ Class glogster to lead to other activities: http://b-7bobcats.wikispaces.com/

21. Glogster How to… slideshow for Glogster http://www.slideshare.net/kadair26/glogster-1007416 Glogster instructions: http://www.scribd.com/doc/14015153/Glogster-Instructions How to embed Glogster into blog or wiki http://www.boxoftricks.net/?p=936

22. EDUBLOGS Windows into the Classroom

23. What is/is not blogging? – one person’s perspective… 1) Posting assignments (Not blogging) 2) Journaling, i.e., "This is what I did today." (Not blogging) 3) Posting links. (Not blogging) 4) Links with descriptive annotation, i.e., "This site is about ...." (Not really blogging either, but getting close depending on the depth of description) 5) Links with analysis that gets into the meaning of the content being linked (A simple form of blogging) 6) Reflective, metacognitive writing or practice without links. (Complex writing, but simple blogging, I think. Commenting would probably fall in here somewhere) 7) Links with analysis and synthesis that articulate a deeper understanding or relationship to the content being linked and written with potential audience response in mind. (Real blogging) 8) Extended analysis and synthesis over a longer period of time that builds on previous posts, links and comments. (Complex blogging). (Richardson, 2005, p. 32)

24. Edublogs - http://edublogs.org/ • Some example blogs: • http://winclass.edublogs.org • http://kingstonbeach.edublogs.org/ • http://illawarra.edublogs.org/ • Supporting Resources • http://theedublogger.edublogs.org/about/getting-started-with-edublogs/ • Janette Garton’s, ‘Getting started with Edublogs’ …how to organise student accounts. • Kim Cofino’s post is also about using Google mail for student accounts. • The introductory manual is good to give to teachers who just want the basics.

25. WIKISPACES A wiki is a website that uses wiki software, allowing the easy creation and editing of any number of interlinked Web pages. Wikis are often used to create collaborative websites, to power community websites, and for note taking.

26. What is a Wiki? YouTube

27. The most famous Wiki Wikipedia Educational use of Wikipedia: http://www.det.wa.edu.au/education/cmis/eval/curriculum/ict/wikipedia/#value

28. Excellent classroom advice for using wikis in the classroom; use the arrows to ‘walk through’ all the advice and ideas http://www.teachersfirst.com/content/wiki/

29. Other wikis… Flat classroom project http://flatclassroomproject.wikispaces.com/ Islands around the World http://islandsaroundtheworld.wikispaces.com/ Wiki spaces for educatorshttp://www.wikispaces.com/site/for/teachers

30. Explore Alan Levine’s Wiki – 50 ways to tell a story! • http://cogdogroo.wikispaces.com/50+Ways • VoiceThread • Toondoo • Bubbleshare • Another online story-telling tool for young students: • http://www.carnegielibrary.org/kids/mystorymaker/mystorymaker.swf