Students today live in a multimedia world and appreciate variety in their learning environment. Some forms of literacy they can develop include textual, numerical, visual, audio and multimedia. Visual Literacy can be defined as the ability to understand and produce visual messages. Both teachers and students can benefit by developing their abilities to create, use and evaluate visual resources.

http://www.zardec.net.au/keith/visual.htm

 

 

Activity One:

 

Figure out how to take pictures with your camera and download them!

 

Take a one serious picture of yourself and one "silly" picture of yourself.

 

Download your picture to your computer and insert it into POWERPOINT or WORD to make a

NAME TENT with both of your pictures ( and your name) on the name tent.

 

You can use Microsoft Photo Editor to crop your picture.

 

 

 

Videos For Discussion:

 

TEACH DIFFERENT VIDEO
 
DIGITAL STUDENTS @ ANALOG SCHOOLS  (located in Teacher Tube)

 

Kids and Digital Media (located in You Tube)

 

***Why do we need to "teach different":

 

 

  •  Josue's Group:
    • The old way doesn't work
    • we need to keep them engaged
    • expect more from myself
    • children learn different
    • prior knowledge is different
  • Vicki's Group
    • We have to show them the relevance of what we are teaching them
    • real world
    • World 2.0
    • We are teaching people, not the subject
    • skills not content
    • "Bueller....Bueller"
  • Connie's Group
    • Passionate
    • They are worth it
    • Tech, attitude, values
    • advocacy, heart of the learning environment
    • leaders of tomorrow
    • kids know things we don't know
    • inspire them to break out of the standard model
    • out-of-the-box learning
  • Jana's Group
    • more resources available
    • The kids know them
    • all children have different learning styles and we have to try to reach them
    • entertain them
    • we have to compete with TV computer video games
    • we have to meet them where they are

 

Activity Two:

 

WHAT IS A DIGITAL STORY?    What is DIGITAL STORYTELLING VICKI.pptx 

Watch several digital stories. With your partners, discuss what you see as key elements these have in common.

 

Hawaii Island Movie Contest Winners

 

 

Examples Of Digital Stories

 

 

Digital Poetry_1.wmv   whitty whirl pool.wmv

 

 

 Activity Three:     Coffe_5.wmv     PS_5 frame-Sculpt.wmv

 

Story in Five Pictures:

Over lunch, participants will take pictures of something happening out there in the REAL WORLD.

We will come back and prepare/share a Photo Story Three project with our five pictures.

 

A good story has characters in action with a beginning, middle, and an ending. Fortunately a lot of information can be given in a single photograph, enhancing the limitations of five photographs for your story. Location, time, and atmosphere aid viewer imagination. Keep standards of pictorial beauty, but pack as many story telling elements in one photograph as possible to develop an action.

 

1st photo: establish characters and location.

 

2nd photo: create a situation with possibilities of what might happen.

 

3rd photo: involve the characters in the situation.

 

4th photo: build to probable outcomes

 

5th photo: have a logical, but surprising, end.

 

Class Examples

 

vball.wmv   

 

DiazPhotoStory1.wmv 

 

LaWyanda Prince.wmv

 

PhotoStoryCate.wmv

 

Project_3.wmv 

 

 

 

 

How to Use Photo Story 3:  

 

http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/using/digitalphotography/photostory/tips/firststory.mspx

 

 

Activity Four:

Steps

  1. Plan: Storyboard and Write
  2. Produce: Record the pieces
  3. Chop: Edit the pieces
  4. Publish: Share your creation
 
There is a recognized process for developing digital stories, as developed by the Center for Digital Storytelling and practiced around the world (Stephenson, 2006).
1.      Script development: write the story, often with a group called a story circle to provide feedback and story development ideas
2.      Record the author reading the story (audio recording and editing)
3.      Capture and process the images to further illustrate the story (image scanning and editing)
4.      Combine audio and images (and any additional video) onto a timeline, add music track (video editing)
5.      Present or publish finished version of story
 
Read through Digitales Information and discuss with your group as you read.
 
 
What does it take to plan a digital story?   
Let's investigate a real life example from Wes Fryer: http://teachdigital.pbwiki.com/ds-enthrall 
 
 

 

Web-based Digital Storytelling Resources

 

An increasing number of websites (read/write web or web 2.0 sites) permit users to publish but also edit/create digital stories online.

Publish/Share Digital Stories

  1. dotSUB (all-volunteer, multi-lingual closed-captioning of web videos)
  2. Next Visa for Learning
  3. TeacherTube - Teach The World
  4. UthTV.com - ("youth tv") fosters opportunities for young mediamakers to have their authentic voices heard by a vast audience.
  5. Blip.TV
  6. YouTube

Edit Digital Stories Online

  1. VoiceThread
  2. DigitalStoryteller
  3. BubbleShare
  4. JumpCut
  5. EyeSpot
  6. Viddler
  7. Motionbox

 

 

Additional Resources:

 

Why use digital cameras in the classroom?

 

http://www.drscavanaugh.org/digitalcamera/images-in-education.htm

 

Sample TA TEKS:

 

http://www.tea.state.tx.us/rules/tac/chapter126/ch126a.html#126.3Uses of digital cameras:

 

http://www.drscavanaugh.org/digitalcamera/

 

What can you do with 15 seconds of video?

 

http://www.drscavanaugh.org/digitalcamera/15_seconds.htm

 

 

Dozens of Acitvities for Using a Digital Camera in Your Classroom:

 

http://www.educationworld.com/a_tech/tech/tech147.shtml

 

http://www.educationworld.com/a_tech/tech/tech148.shtml

 

 

Great Hotlists of Sites for Digital Cameras:

 

http://webtech.kennesaw.edu/jcheek3/digitalcameras.htm

 

http://school.discovery.com/schrockguide/gadgets.html

 

 

  • Lelia's Links
  • Using Digital Cameras in the Classroom
  • 1001 Uses for a Digital Camera
  • Learning to Use the Digital Camera

     

     

    Web Based Photo Applications:

     

    Walmart Photo Gifts

     

    Kodak Photo Gifts

     

    YotoPhoto

     

    Flickr - flickr-quickstart.pdf

     

    Bubbleshare

     

    Voicethread 

     

    Working with Digital Images:

     

    http://www.ncsu.edu/sciencejunction/route/usetech/digitalcamera/res/resolution.html

     

    http://www.resize2mail.com/

     

    http://www.picnik.com/

     

    http://snipshot.com/

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