Freshmen all had the chance to create a short video using PhotoStory. Each pair of students retold a story either traditionally or modernized. Photos were downloaded from Creative Commons, and then uploaded into PhotoStory. They wrote a script and then narrated the photos. They included a personal reflection at the end of their stories. A rubric and self evaluation was completed and submitted to the their teacher.
Tech Skills Learned:
Tech Skills Learned:
- Searching for images
- Saving images to flash drive
- collaborative writing with Google Docs (optional)
- PhotoStory development
- audio recording
- saving as a video file .wmv
Benefits:
- Creativity
- Collaboration
- Oral speaking skills: speaking clearly and professionally
- Working quickly to complete task within time constraints
Challenges
- absenteeism/leaving early for sports
- their partners had to do more of the work
- Communicating the saving process needed to be very clear and visual using projector
- pacing students to prevent them from creating too large a project
Overall, the freshmen are very computer literate, and many required simple clarification about processes. Many are Mac users who just need to see how to do something in Windows.
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