Digital Stories completed by classes and individual students.

• Northern Elementary First Grade   

• The Arlington Wizards  - Hint: download to your computer for better viewing.

• Jacob's Story - Picadome 

Digital Poetry Sample

• Beach Things (very large file, not recommended for dial ups)

Samples that take you through the a suggested Digital Storytelling Process

Creating "Whose Knocking"

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• Prewriting using Inspiration

• Draft using Word

• Dividing draft for illustrations (Each color will correspond with different picture.)

• Story Board 

• Story Board with pictures

• Revised Piece to be published

Other samples

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• Sample "Events to Moments" helping student to focus personal narrative. (Inspiration document)

• A piece broken into parts ready to place on story board.

• A piece placed into a story board.

• A piece before and after story board process.

• Timeline using Word to help student choose focus of writing.

• ETAS details-Emotion, thoughts, actions and sensory details.  Not a developed sample.

Templates

• Expand vocabulary

• "Events to Moments" Graphic Organizer using Inspiration

• Story board

In this method, Katy who was a first grader that had help taking pictures then talking about the pictures in sound files.  The pictures and sound were put together in a movie.  Then Katy viewed the movie several times listening to her own story.  Then she wrote her informative piece (in Ky it's called transactive piece.).

• Katy's Movie

• Katy's informative piece.

Some other purposes for Digital Storytelling

Teachers create movies to help with a lesson:

• Butterfly- explains life cycle of the butterfly (21504.38KB (22020490 bytes)

• Poetry - Demonstrating how to use pictures to develop words for a poem. (4065.71KB (4163292 bytes)

• BBQ Chicken Pizza - Shawn Mink, Kindergarten teacher at Mary Todd cooks for his class once a week.  He created a movie to emphasize sequence.