Unit: Personal Narrative Digital Stories
| Grade:3-5 |
Established Goals (Standards)
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The following NETS for Students are applicable to the unit.
2-3 standards will be highlighted as a focus depending on the needs of our students at that time:
| 1. | Creativity and Innovation |
| Students demonstrate creative thinking, construct knowledge, and develop innovative products and processes using technology. Students: |
| | b. | create original works as a means of personal or group expression. | | | 2. | Communication and Collaboration |
| Students use digital media and environments to communicate and work collaboratively, including at a distance, to support individual learning and contribute to the learning of others. Students: |
| | b. | communicate information and ideas effectively to multiple audiences using a variety of media and formats. | | c. | develop cultural understanding and global awareness by engaging with learners of other cultures. | | | 3. | Research and Information Fluency |
| Students apply digital tools to gather, evaluate, and use information. Students: |
| | b. | locate, organize, analyze, evaluate, synthesize, and ethically use information from a variety of sources and media. | | | 4. | Critical Thinking, Problem Solving, and Decision Making |
| Students use critical thinking skills to plan and conduct research, manage projects, solve problems, and make informed decisions using appropriate digital tools and resources. Students: |
| | b. | plan and manage activities to develop a solution or complete a project. | | | 5. | Digital Citizenship |
| Students understand human, cultural, and societal issues related to technology and practice legal and ethical behavior. Students: |
| | a. | advocate and practice safe, legal, and responsible use of information and technology. | | | 6. | Technology Operations and Concepts |
| Students demonstrate a sound understanding of technology concepts, systems, and operations. Students: |
| | b. | select and use applications effectively and productively. | |
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| Enduring Understandings | Essential Questions |
- Digital tools allow us to connect and communicate easily with others globally
- Storytelling is the interactive art of using words and actions to reveal the elements and images of a story
- Storytelling presents a story
- Storytelling encourages the active imagination of the listeners
| - Why do we tell stories?
- How can sharing our stories help us communicate with others?
- How can words, images and actions evoke the emotions of our audience?
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| Stage 2 – Assessment Evidence |
| GRASPS Task | Six Facets of Understanding |
Goal: You will produce a personal narrative digital story to share with students from another country who are learning to speak English.
Role: You will find appropriate images to help convey your personal narrative story you have chosen to share.
Audience: Students in Buenos Aires, Argentina
Situation: You will use a storyboard template, and iMovie to create digital story for one of your published Personal Narratives. You will need to find appropriate, creative commons images to help convey your story.
Product Performance: Your digital story will be posted on the Digital Storytelling Wiki. A successful digital story will include:
- A detailed storyboard
- Appropriate still images that match the storyline
- Strong, clear speaking voice
- Modulated voice with emotion and emphasis
- Effect use or non-use of transitions, effects and audio that do not distract the flow of the story
Extension:
| (Explain, Apply, Interpret, Perspective, Self-Knowledge, Empathize)
Explain: Students will use their published personal narrative story to create a digital version to share with a global audience.
Apply: Students will use iMovie to create the digital story. Students will demonstrate their understanding of the use of images/music under creative commons when they search for and locate appropriate still images for their personal narratives.
Interpret: Students will make efficient use of the storytelling elements (images, music, transition) to activate the imagination of the listeners and evoke emotion.
Perspective: Students reflect on how this project helped them to communicate with an audience.
Self-Knowledge: Students self-evaluate their speaking skills, and storytelling skills.
Empathize: Students share their challenges of communicating their story to learners of English.
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Lesson Notes:
- We would create a purpose-built wiki for this particular project. On this wiki would be the step-by-step guidelines for students to access during the project.
- There would be tutorials for particular ways to use iMovie, record audio, tips/tricks etc.
All documents such as storyboard templates/rubrics/self-assessments etc would be accessed from the wiki.
- The wiki would also house the final products for sharing with our global audience.
Course 3: Final project by Robin Bulsza, Mary Bellone, Mike Jesse and Chrissy Hellyer |
