October 2020 Agenda—La Mesa, California

Facilitating Technology Enriched Classrooms for 21st Century Learners.

Begin at 3:30 pm

Getting Connected

Digitally…Socially…Spiritually

• Sharing for the day  –  If you could spend one day with a Biblical character (not including Jesus), who would it be and would there be a specific moment or day you would choose?

Devotion

Announcements

1. The next workshop date is scheduled for Thursday, October 29.

2. November 23 & 24 – All Workers Conference (Formally LEC). Click HERE for information.

Review

Let’s take some time to reflect on last month’s TEC21 Challenges and share experiences. Share a success, a challenge you experienced or a lesson learned.

Goals

1. Discover the value of engaging your students in a digital storytelling project.
2. Explore digital storytelling tools and resources to use with your students.
3. Identify a tool or resource to share with a colleague.

Digital Storytelling

Everyone has a story to tell! What’s yours?

Literary Basis

“Digital storytelling has emerged as a fundamental, cross-curricular technique that provides structure for both sharing and understanding new information. It has become an essential way of providing information and enhancing education…by making abstract or conceptual content more understandable. In all disciplines, it offers more ways to engage students and enrich learning through the inclusion of digital media that represents, illustrates, and demonstrates. Digital storytelling brings together text, graphics, audio, and video around a chosen theme, often with a specific point of view. Bernard Robin observes that a digital story may be a personal tale, a depiction of a historical event, or simply a way to creatively impart information or provide instruction. In the classroom, they can also foster collaboration when students are able to work in groups, and enhance the student experience through a personal sense of accomplishment (Robin, 2006). The National Council of Teachers of English in 2003, challenged teachers to develop instructional strategies for students to master composing in nonprint media that could include any combination of visual art, motion (video and film), graphics, text, and sound—all of which are frequently written and read in nonlinear fashion (Porter, 2008, p. 11). Included was the process of digital storytelling, where information is conveyed in a way that is more engaging than plain text.”     Strategies for digital communication skills across disciplines: The importance of digital stories (Links to an external site.)

Common Core writing standards require writing and publishing using digital tools beginning already in Kindergarten and continuing through Grade 12.

Paper Slide Videos

Stopmotion Video

A stopmotion video is a series of still images strung together at a rapid rate resulting in an onscreen animation.  Below is an example of one a past student created using Stopmotion Studios.  It is a free app that simple to use.  The video below takes advantage of some of the paid add-on features.

Digital Storytelling Resources

Image Resources

• YOUR own photo library (Always your first choice when possible.)
• www.flickr.com/photos/library_of_congress
• www.nasa.gov/multimedia/imagegallery
• www.ars.usda.gov/is/graphics/photos
• pixabay.com
• pics4learning.com

Audio Resources

• incompetech.com (Royalty Free Music)
• soundbible.com (Royalty Free Sounds and Music)
• Freesound.org
• Findsounds.com
• “Hire a Kid” – You all have that kid in your class who’s the soundFX machine, right? Give him an outlet for that talent!
• Create your own music using Garageband or UJAM.