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Teachers Teaching Teachers: Using Technology to Tell Stories

The concept of digital storytelling has been around for some time as people began to envision the impact that the visual and oral elements could have on the traditional writing process. Video documentaries, radio reflections and other experiments have blossomed with the Web 2.0 world. There are many publishing sources and many means of expression. But what does it all mean? How can the interactive web be tapped into to bring storytelling and composition to an even deeper level of meaning for the writer and for the audience?

Join guest host Kevin Hodgson, who is the technology liaison of the Western Massachusetts Writing Project, this week on Teachers Teaching Teachers as he seeks to explore some of these questions. Kevin is a sixth grade teacher who has students create digital picture books (last year's theme -- math, and this year's theme -- science) and stop-motion claymation projects (in which his sixth graders collaborate with second graders). He has been exploring the intersection of the world of digital storytelling and the Web 2.0 frontier in recent months with NWP Colleague Bonnie Kaplan through a community Weblog and a new collaborative ABC movie project that features more than a dozen teachers throughout the country who are contributing video segments to a larger collaborative project that uses online tools to plan, produce and distribute a digital story.

The program will try to showcase some different aspects of storytelling and technology, brainstorm some ways that people can get started, and consider what the future holds for telling stories in a digital environment.

Our guests will include Tonya Witherspoon, who has run a claymation movie camp for kids; Gail Desler, who is part of the ABC Movie Project and a deep thinker on the pedagogy underlying the use of technology in the classroom; and others.

Please join us for the conversation this Wednesday evening on EdTechTalk.com (6pm PDT / 9pm EDT / 1am GMT (global times).

Kevin Hodgson

 

Some Resource Links

Kevin and Bonnie's Using Technology to Tell Stories Weblog (http://techstories.edublogs.org/)

More information about the ABC Movie Project (http://techstories.edublogs.org/category/abc-movie-project/)
The ABC Movie Concept Map (using Gliffy) http://www.flickr.com/photo_zoom.gne?id=441851401&size=o
The ABC Movie Slideshow (using sPresent) http://sblogs.writingproject.org/gems/blogwrite270/ABCMoviePresentation.html

Tonya's Claymation Camp Site
Kevin's Weblog (http://dogtrax.edublogs.org/)
Bonnie's Weblog (http://blk1.edublogs.org/)
Gail's Weblog (http://blogwalker.edublogs.org/)
Tonya's Weblog  (http://essdack.org/spoonfed/index.html)
Kevin's Storytelling Site (http://www.umass.edu/wmwp/DigitalStorytelling/Digital%20Storytelling%20Main%20Page.htm)
Tonya's Delicious links for Digital Storytelling (http://del.icio.us/tonya.witherspoon/digitalstorytelling)

Do you have more resources for us to consider?
Please add them to this notebook.
Kevin

More Examples of Student Work

Sharon Peters students have recently completed work at this web site: Global Virtual Classroom
http://gvc06temp06.virtualclassroom.org/
 

Here are some links from Ken Stein:

this one is absolutely awesome and folks ought to spend some time looking at. it has an audio track and features the voice of a student photoblogger => http://news.yahoo.com/page/venice

here's the link to my students and some of their 5 frame stories => http://www.flickr.com/groups/satellitephotographyclass/discuss/