Digital Story Telling
Bring a classroom story to life! This is a great project to not only use as an aid to teach students but also an experience for them to get involved in. For our class we used the book January's Sparrow by: Patricia Polacco. We also plan to use this digital story in our unit about the Underground Railroad. If you wanted to use this project in your classroom, especially for younger students, you would need to make the video ahead of time. You can make a movie on Window's Movie maker if you have a PC and imovie if you have a Mac. Both programs are a little hard to use but it is easy to get the hang of. There are also "how to" videos on YouTube that will guide you through some of the process. I really liked using the imovie to create our digital storytelling because we were able to almost take a PowerPoint of still pictures and make it come to life. I thought that this was a lot easier than piecing together a bunch of video clips. When recording the voices you are also able to record then place the speaking parts where they need to go. This is nice to not have to have the voice over exactly where it needs to be placed because you can always just move it.
This is where it could get very exciting for the students. If you had a younger class you could make the imovie or Windows move and then have them be different characters in the story. This would also be a good final project for a book that they have read. You could have students predict what they think would happen if there were to be another book. You could also have them as a class decide on one story to use and to draw pictures that go along with the story. These pictures can then be used as the movie. Then you have students record the speaking parts. I think that students would be really excited to see their art work and voices be made into a movie! It is a great final project you can use and include kids, or it could be a great teaching tool to help introduce a topic or book. Either way technology is always a great aid in teaching!!
Bring a classroom story to life! This is a great project to not only use as an aid to teach students but also an experience for them to get involved in. For our class we used the book January's Sparrow by: Patricia Polacco. We also plan to use this digital story in our unit about the Underground Railroad. If you wanted to use this project in your classroom, especially for younger students, you would need to make the video ahead of time. You can make a movie on Window's Movie maker if you have a PC and imovie if you have a Mac. Both programs are a little hard to use but it is easy to get the hang of. There are also "how to" videos on YouTube that will guide you through some of the process. I really liked using the imovie to create our digital storytelling because we were able to almost take a PowerPoint of still pictures and make it come to life. I thought that this was a lot easier than piecing together a bunch of video clips. When recording the voices you are also able to record then place the speaking parts where they need to go. This is nice to not have to have the voice over exactly where it needs to be placed because you can always just move it.
This is where it could get very exciting for the students. If you had a younger class you could make the imovie or Windows move and then have them be different characters in the story. This would also be a good final project for a book that they have read. You could have students predict what they think would happen if there were to be another book. You could also have them as a class decide on one story to use and to draw pictures that go along with the story. These pictures can then be used as the movie. Then you have students record the speaking parts. I think that students would be really excited to see their art work and voices be made into a movie! It is a great final project you can use and include kids, or it could be a great teaching tool to help introduce a topic or book. Either way technology is always a great aid in teaching!!
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