#1: Elementary School Writing

Lesson Title: Personal Narrative

Level: Third Grade

Stage:2 - Adoption

Experienced Teacher Technology Standard(s): 10.6

Discussion: Since the technology in this lesson is not being used to support anything beyond traditional paper and pencil skills, and since the level of technology use is quite minimal, this is a low Stage 2 example.

Enhancements:

• If the computers were available for storyboarding and rough drafts of the final paper, this lesson would qualify as a Stage 3 lesson.
• If the students were allowed to work on their own to scan in or select digital pictures, and these and the final draft of the paper were used to construct a electronic presentation (e.g. PowerPoint) or digital video file with students reading their story through voiceovers, this lesson would qualify as a Stage 4 lesson. (See the Fayette County Digital Storytelling initiative for details on this method.)
• If the tools for a variety of formats were available - PowerPoint, digital video, pamphlets, web pages, music production - and the students were allowed to select whichever they wanted to use, this would qualify as Stage 5.