Journey Summary
This session further explores digital storytelling, combining the art of telling a story with the use of multimedia elements, including graphics, video, audio, and web-based publishing. During this session, you will choose appropriate video tools to create your own digital story, identify digital elements you will include in your “My eMINTS Journey” digital story and plan for incorporating learner story production into your classroom.
Curriculum-framing Questions
Essential Question
- What is your story?
Unit Questions
- In what ways might digital storytelling promote creativity?
- How might digital storytelling support communication?
- How does reflection promote learning?
Content Questions
- When is using digital storytelling going to enhance learning?
- What are some topics students can address through digital stories?
- How do we plan for and prepare our students to create digital stories?
- Why is it important to be a reflective educator?
- How will you best tell the story of how you have grown as an educator during your experience with eMINTS professional development?
Introduction
The creation of digital stories can be a motivating task for students who are growing up in a digital society. Storytelling, however, is much more than a creative outlet. Digital storytelling is in demand by modern corporations, entrepreneurs, and others who use this personal approach for marketing and branding. Using media to communicate a clear, creative, and powerful message can help students develop skills essential to success in our modern world while meeting grade-level learning standards.
Theory Behind Practice
All eMINTS materials are grounded in research-based best practices in K-12 education.
Digging Deeper
Agenda
- Opener: Make an Impact
- Digital Storytelling Skills
- Planning for Success
- eMINTS Journey Work Time
- Closer: Title It
Classroom Visit w/Students
Ask your facilitator to assist as you implement digital storytelling with students. Your facilitator can be an extra pair of hands as students work with new software. You might consider asking your facilitator to collect data for you during a lesson.
Classroom Visit w/out Students
Ask your facilitator to conduct a planning conversation as you plan the use of digital storytelling in your classroom. You might consider collaborating with your facilitator as you plot the use of digital storytelling. Your facilitator can also review tools that may be beneficial for your students to use as they create their videos. Also, you might choose to review data collected during your lesson with a reflecting conversation.
Agenda
This module is designed to be a “flipped” learning experience. You will use the information you learn in the face-to-face session to complete hands-on/minds-on activities during the “flipped” session activities.
You will complete 1 hour and 50 minutes of work time during the flipped session. Flipped learning experiences provide you with the flexibility to learn on your own time while utilizing your newfound knowledge from the face-to-face session.
Find out more about Flipped Classrooms here.
During the Session
- Opener: Make an Impact
- Digital Storytelling Skills
- Planning for Success
- Closer: Title It
After the Session
- eMINTS Journey Work Time
Classroom Visit w/Students
Ask your facilitator to assist as you implement digital storytelling with students. Your facilitator can be an extra pair of hands as students work with new software. You might consider asking your facilitator to collect data for you during a lesson.
Classroom Visit w/out Students
Ask your facilitator to conduct a planning conversation as you plan the use of digital storytelling in your classroom. You might consider collaborating with your facilitator as you plot the use of digital storytelling. Your facilitator can also review tools that may be beneficial for your students to use as they create their videos. Also, you might choose to review data collected during your lesson with a reflecting conversation.
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