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= Home > Group B Workspace > Learning Activity 5-B-1: Storytelling Examples = = [] = = Jen #1: = = What I really enjoyed about this story is that it is about how one school is saving the environment. The school is in Canada, which is fantastic because the students could see how another country is helping with recycling and their idea's on how to save the environment. Plus, you could tie it into a Social Studies unit and discuss fun facts about Canada. As an elementary school teacher, I could see using this digital story during my recycling unit. It is very easy to follow. This story was made by a student. The graphics were good and I really enjoyed the student's interview of a member of the green team. I think that this story = = _ = = Jen #2: = =[]= =This was one of my favorite stories on this website. It was done by a 4th grade student and it was about her camping trip. She did a couple of different things in the digital story. She mixed real pictures of her trip with pictures that she drew. She also narrated the entire activity. During different parts of story, she added funny music to illustrate the fun of a certain activity. What I think is so great about this digital story is that you can show it any age level and then have them do a similar project about their summer vacation. I think it would be a creative way of them to discuss what they did over the summer time then to write a paragraph about it.= _

Jen #3:

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This last digital story is from Mesquite, Texas. It is by an elementary school student. Both stories are about the monarch butterfly and it's stages. The first story is on the first two stages of the monarch butterfly and the second story is on the last two stages of the monarch butterfly. The clip had a mixture of real pictures, pictures that the student drew, clips of the student talking. The student spoke very clearly. Out of the two clips, my favorite is the second clip because they actually show the pupa going into the chrysalis. What is so great is the little girl and her father's commentary. It is narrated completely by the student and I found it to be very engaging. I think that if you teach your students about the monarch butterfly, it is the perfect digital story because they have many clips of each stage. My only problem with it was that you couldn't make the screen expand so, each clip stayed really small.

Nina #1:

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This link is really cute. The story is about snakes and whether you should be scared of them or not. It is filled with Austin's art as well as his voice giving all this info about snakes. It is obvious that he is young but it is so cute how he narrated it! It's a great link to show kids another way that they could do a report about a subject. It was very simple but age appropriate and effective.

Nina #2:

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I think that this link is awesome. This is actual videos of celebrites reading stories to the child watching and they get to pick the book. I left it as a link to the main page because their are so many options to chose that are great. Just the thrill of having someone famous reading to them is pretty cool in itself so it makes the videos even more effective. It makes great connections for literacey and makes kids want to read.

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I LOVE this site! Not only can kids read stories that other children of done but they can create their own digital story online. It is an awesome resource that I never knew exsisted. The story that this one links to is very cute. It talks about different types of animals and it is a colaboration. These are some definate 21st Century kids with the skills to match. They had to take a risk and share their writing and their drawings and then work together to come up with their presentation. It is a really good example for kids of what they can do and how they could work together to form their project.

Crystal #1: media type="custom" key="9025052" width="100" height="100" align="left"This is a mock interview with Johnny Appleseed presented by a first grade class. Johnny and the interviewers are all played by students. This would serve as a fun alternative to students reading a traditional text biography about the life of Johnny Appleseed. This video can also act as a springboard to creating your own mock interview with a historical figure. Not much media is used besides video but It is entertaining and informative.

Crystal #2: media type="custom" key="9025246" align="left" This is a rap video about how to simplify fractions. The creator used video and music to explain the process for simplifying fractions. This would be a great resource for use in the upper elementary classroom. I would suggest adding text (the lyrics) to make the process easier to understand. This video could inspire you and your students to create your own music videos to explain mathematical procedures.

Crystal #3 media type="custom" key="9025364" This is a video of 1st graders singing a song about decoding strategies. The song is fantastic and can definitely be applied to an early elementary classroom. The song could be taken and turned into a video itself. I think it would be much more powerful with pictures and perhaps better graphics to enhance the text. I wanted to highlight this video of the children singing simply because the song is a fantastic way to stress the importance of decoding strategies. Hopefully this will inspire another educator to take the song, use additional media and create a presentation that is more meaningful.