Digital+Storytelling

I teach a 6th grade wheel class for about 45 minutes each day. In the past it was a "keyboarding" class. After taking Jason Ohler's class I cam back and talked with my principal. We review keyboarning for a week or so, but then we spend the rest of the time on digital storytelling! It is a huge change for the better. I have my 6th graders each choose one social studies topic and one science experiment. Then we go through the process of creating a digital story about their chosen topic using Microsoft Photostory 3. It's taken a lot of work to get them away form just wanting to list facts about their topic or "steal" pictures off of Google images - I don't allow either of those things as part of their final product, because their photostory must be in story for and 100% their own creation - but it's worth it. These students do creative work and a lot of thinking!

Here is the digital storytelling rubric I created on rubistar: []

Here are just a few projects created by my students as part of the class:

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