BP7 2009-122-#1Digital Story Telling

Voicethread is one of the digital tools I find very fascinating and interesting to use. ‘Voicethread is a powerful way to talk about and share your images, documents, and videos.’ It promises to address the needs of all levels of education ‘pro,k-12. higher ed and business. Voicethread had been described as relevant, engaging and gives authenticity to learning; it is also engaging, enforces listening and participation and story building. All learning domains and bloom’s taxonomy are integrated in using digital story telling.
Voicethread has an interface that easy to navigate, featuring ‘Browse, Create and My Voice’
When the Browse button is clicked a host of over 63 pages templates with eight templates on a page. each template is made up of pictures that are animated on a click with a story teller or picture and people commenting on various aspects of the story or pictures.
Online listeners like me have a place to comment and be posted so that the thread of discussion on the picture or story goes.I even had mu picture inserted and loaded on the hots of comments and published instantly. The Create button leads one to upload some videos and pictures that could edit or replace with another picture and so create a whole new voicethread images .My Voice gives various features of voice input and output setting from an Imac computer. One is ready to go.
Voicethread and many other digital story telling tools are accessible from Ozge Karaoglu’s Blog at
http://ozgekaraoglu.edublogs.org/2009/11/11/100-digital-storytelling-tools-for-your-digital-selves-natives-part-2/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+edublogs%2FNRsj+%28Ozge+Karaoglu%27s+Blog%29
Go Animate is another digital story building tool from goanimate.com
To teach Language Arts, Ebglish Language Developmen and Creative Writing and story Telling Voicethread and GoaAnimate will be a useful tool in the hands of educaators.













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Digital Story Telling is my choice of web 2.0 type to use for my class. Digital Story telling is a form of story telling that uses images, music, text, audio clips to tell a story. By this students and teachers are able to comprehend, visualize and communicate meaning through digital story telling.
Topic: Comparing Robert Frost’s ‘The Road Not Taken’
And Marge Piercy’s ‘To be of Use’
At the end of the lesson students will be able to:
1. State the themes common to and different in both poems
2. Point out 3 imageries used in both poems
3. And show how the imageries add to the theme of each poem
4. Post a poem of theirs on choices.

Teaching Aids:
images of yellow wood forest and bush paths as seen on the page showing Frost’s poem, a picture of an ocean or sea water and sea seals swimming in the sea, a video clip of pictures and images of such; a script of the story of Robert Frost and marge Piercy’s poems.
Using Voicethread from http://www.voicethread.com a software program for voiceovers Nelson, J., Christopher, A., & Mims, C. (2009). TPACK and Web 2.0: Transformation of Teaching and Learning. Tech Trends: T Research & Practice to Improve Learning, 53(5), 80-87. doi:10.1007/s11528-009-0329-z.two students will read a scripted summary of both poems, which the class had done under the guidance of their teacher. Images downloaded from the internet will be added to the voice overs of the poems.
this is a project that the class will work in two groups, one group for each poem After the editing of the digital story telling, students and teachers will watch and listen to each poem. With the questions at the instructional objectives students will watch to answer:
1. the theme of indecision and choice on the first poem and the theme of decisiveness and choice from the second poem;
2. the imagery of the traveler, grassy bush paths and forest undergrowth from poem 1 and seam swimmers and ‘without dallying in the shallows’ from the second poem and
3. relate how it portrays two groups of people in life: the undecided and the decided choosers.
4. Point out the stanzaic structures of each poem and the rhyming scheme used in both.

Assessment: Follow each of the poems they liked and write a four stanzaic poem on the important choices they have made in life so far.
1st stanza show the two choices you had.
2nd stanza show the conflict in choosing one from the other
3rd stanza describe the choice made and why
4th stanza with the wisdom of hindsight, was it a right choice or not



References
Prentice Hall Literature (2002),California Edition,Glenview, Illinois

Nelson, J., Christopher, A., & Mims, C. (2009). TPACK and Web 2.0: Transformation of Teaching and Learning. Tech Trends: T Research & Practice to Improve Learning, 53(5), 80-87. doi:10.1007/s11528-009-0329-z.