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http://blogs.scholastic.com/early_childhood_teacher/2008/10/digital-storyte.html I really like this digital story for two reasons. First of all, it was a poem of Shel Silverstiens (whom we study in third grade) and the second reason was that all the illustrations and the story itself was completed by the students. It was very well done. The students used windows movie maker to display thier illustrations and record their audio. They also had some background music. It made me smile to hear all of the children say the chorus. It sounded like they had a good time making it!
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[|**http://edcommunity.apple.com/ali/story.php?itemID=126**] I enjoyed this digital story because of the fact that a camcorder was used and then the movie was put onto the web. The students used imovie to recored the movie. The teacher also explained that they used iphoto to create a photobook using still images from the recording. It shows students acting out their own folktales. We do a fables unit in third grade and this gave me a great idea to be able to have my third graders create one of these. It was an appropriate activity because the students practice the art of storytelling and used their understanding of the elements of a story to make the video.
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[|**http://edcommunity.apple.com/ali/story.php?itemID=113**] The final one that I chose is another that would fit nicely in our community unit. It has pictures of buildings that are in the kid's community and then tells what each one is. This would be another that I would be able to use in my classroom. The students used appleworks to type their text and iphoto to add their own illustrations and photos that were taken with a digital camera. As I read it, I could really tell the students had a good understanding of why the building in their community were important. It was interesting to see the students photos and illustrations combined on the page. I am sure adding their own illustrations, made the students feel proud of their work!
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http://www.ssdsbergen.org/booktrailers/2O/Anabel.html This is a book trailer created by second graders. I chose this because I thought it was a great way to use digital stories as an additional activity for summarizing texts and stories. The students narrated the summary of the story and used pictures from the story to guide the re-telling. They seemed to use something similar to windows movie maker to record the audio and pictures of the text. If you click on the BACK button, you will see a large variety of other elementary level books that kids have used in their digital storytelling. This would be a great alternative for a child instead of having them look at and read a Book on Tape. [|2nd Grade Book Trailers]
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http://www.teachertube.com/view_video.php?viewkey=bfde741e893edb46a06c This is a digital story created by 3rd graders. They used images, audio, illustrations, and text to create their digital stories on their special places. I thought it was a good idea to show how third graders can work together to create a digital story. I also liked the way the teacher had them include their text in the story and the students also used a variety of music to enchance the feelings they were portraying. Third graders are still working on developing writing, grammer, and punctuation skills. [|Our Special Places/3rd Graders]
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__**Digital Story F**__: http://www.dtc.scott.k12.ky.us/technology/digitalstorytelling/annoyingsister_t1.mov This is a digital poem used to explain an elementary students view on her annoying sister (which many students would be able to make a personal connection to). This is an appropriate activity for many students since poetry is a focus during most grades in elementary school and would be a great way to introduce the idea of poetry and digital storytelling. The student used audio and images to enhance her poem. [|Digital Poetry]