TIPS Volume 3, No. 5
January, 2003

     Grade Level Key 
     = Elem, = Middle
     = High, = Teachers

[See the videos in Through a Student's Eyes]

After teachers at Northern Elementary saw a sample digital storytelling project created by one of their own, Trish Irvin, five other teachers jumped quickly on board. The teachers used the basic concept of digital storytelling to have their students develop multimedia presentations on topics they have been studying. The teachers and students were focusing on the reading, writing, and speaking components of literacy by completing these projects. The teachers used the opportunity to address several teacher and student technology standards. The students learned how to scan an image, save the image in the correct format in PhotoShop Elements, then how to import the images into Pinnacle Studio 8. Then the students learned how to record their voices to go with the images. The students told what they had learned about the content they had been studying. So far, five teachers and their students have created these multimedia presentations. Three teachers have first grade students, one teacher has third grade students, and the final teacher has fourth grade students. The students were motivated to write their best, read their best, and speak their best as a part of these projects.

Watch Melissa Russell's first graders reading their voice-overs! Click on the picture at right...