The Best Ways To Make Comic Strips Online. I decided to create another quick “The Best…” list today rating sites that allow you to create online comic strips.
These can be excellent opportunities for English Language Learners to be able to focus more time on developing language, writing, and storytelling skills instead of having to focus on creating drawings. Of course, I’m not denigrating the role of art in the classroom. It’s just that there are a number of online sites that make that part easier, and might make both writing and reading a little more engaging and attractive. “Stories are about 22 times more memorable than facts alone” Whether Humble or Glorious: Telling Stories of Human History Through Objects. In “Stuff That Defines Us,” Carol Vogel writes: It was a project so audacious that it took 100 curators four years to complete it.
The goal: to tell the history of the world through 100 objects culled from the British Museum’s sprawling collections. The result of endless scholarly debates was unveiled, object by chronological object, on a BBC Radio 4 program in early 2010, narrated by Neil MacGregor, director of the museum. Millions of listeners tuned in to hear his colorful stories — so many listeners that the BBC, together with the British Museum, published a hit book of the series, “A History of the World in 100 Objects.”
Here are some ways to use this idea, and the New York Times slide show and article about the project, in your own classroom. Before Viewing Tell students about the goal of the British Museum’s “History of the World in 100 Objects” project, perhaps using the excerpt from the Times article at the top of this post. Questions Activity Ideas People’s Choices Local Connections. The Power of Stories. Storyboarding: Pre-Writing Activity The more we podcast and have our students create video clips or other digital storytelling projects, the more we need to teach storyboarding as part of the process.
Being able to pre-visualize how your story will unfold is becoming a vital skill to have for storytellers. Storyboards are defined as: Graphic organizers such as a series of illustrations or images displayed in sequence for the purpose of pre-visualizing a motion picture, animation, motion graphic or interactive media sequence, including website interactivity. In the book by Roger Essley “Visual Tools for Differentiating Reading & Writing Instruction: Strategies to Help Students Make Abstract Ideas Concrete and Accessible”, he says Storyboarding, or picture writing, is the origin of all written languages, used by ancient cultures before text evolved and as a natural bridge to text. Pre-Writing is defined as. National Writing Project.
Literacy, ELL and Digital Storytelling: 21st Century Skills in Action.
Bay Area Writing Project teacher consultants Clifford Lee and Yumi Matsui lead their students through the "American Immigraton Project. " Find out more about the participating teacher consultants and explore their contributions and resources by clicking on a name or thumbnail image. Dave Boardman Messalonskee High School Oakland, Maine Maine Writing Project Pen Campbell St.
St. Third Coast Writing Project Kevin Hodgson Southampton, Massachusetts Western Massachusetts Writing Project Clifford Lee Life Academy High School. Digital Storytelling – Part I Storytelling has been a great part of our school year, which is already winding down.
From… telling about our and Jose, the travel bear ‘s adventurous stories live while in Egyptoutfitting EVERY classroom in our school with their own digital cameras, so teachers and students could create a visual of their daily activities or create a visual of a learning conceptcreating a collective knowledge story across grade level and subject areas demonstrating what students have learnedLife ‘Round Here project, where students assumed the point of view of an object and narratedCreating printed books that narrate the daily life in the classroom, special visits and fieldtrips and the physical and academic growth of the students throughout the year.
…to Professional Development in Technology for VoiceThread , Mixbook , PhotoStory , Audacity , and MovieMaker . Image by CaptPiper. Getting_started_educator_mpb. The Best Digital (& Non-Digital) Storytelling Resources. As I’ve mentioned, I was able to raise some funds to purchase some Flip camcorders and digital cameras for my classes to use.
Though I’ve had students create some VoiceThread presentations using simple storyboards, and many of my students have created very simple online slideshows, I thought I should spend some time learning a bit about digital storytelling. Our new equipment creates some great opportunities to create more complex “learning objects” and, though them, more ways for students to develop their English and higher-order thinking skills. I knew of some resources, and contacted others who are far more experienced than me in venue, in order to come-up with another “The Best…” list. The main criteria for a resource to be included on list was that it was practical and accessible to someone just exploring the topic. Here are my picks for The Best Digital Storytelling Resources: Digital Storytelling Part 1 from the great Langwitches blog is a good place to start.
Google Search Stories.