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=Home > Group C Workspac​e > Learning Activity 5-B-1: Storytelling Examples= Favorite Holidays In this movie a first/second grade class share their ideas on their favorite holidays. Student drawings and home pictures were used for the visuals and students did the narrating. Students were grouped and given assigned tasks. They had an audio team, a scanning team, a cropping team, a music team and an art team.

The Very Last of the Great Wangdoodle In this example of digital storytelling, the participants of //Everybody Has A Story To Tell// workshop, focus on 7 elements of digital storytelling: audience, purpose, content, voice, technology, connection, & economy. Tools include a digital camera, Audacity, Webware, and Windows Media Player.

Monarch Butterflies The students of the Mesquite School district created this movie to showcase their annual project of monitoring the Monarch butterfly's life cycle. They begin by collecting the eggs and then record the process the butterfly goes through up until adulthood. They used imove, a MacIntosh PowerBook G3, and a Canon ZR10 digital camera. .

Farmdale First Grade Digital Stories

Check out Mrs. Ruhl’s 1st grade stories from her 2010 class. The students wrote the stories on paper, brought in pictures and then worked with a program called Keynote to create these digital stories. They then recorded themselves reading their stories to finish the movies.

The City Mouse and Country Mouse

A first grade reader's theater production of Aesop's classic tale. Voices were recorded into Garageband, still images edited with Photoshop, and then final products edited with Final Cut Pro. This link provides additional resources to check out on the right side. This teacher has done many "stories" with his young students. The site is a compilation of tips for teachers.

Beth Newingham's Ideas & Tips

This third grade teacher takes us behind the scenes of her movie-making process. Her site also has many classroom movies to watch. She shows how she uses a green screen and later inserts images so the students are taken anywhere from outerspace to the signing of the Declaration of Independence! Awesome site to explore!

media type="custom" key="6494373" This is my first digital story I did with my class this past school year using Voicethread. The students illustrated storymaps of "The Gingerbread Man" and then recorded their voice for part of the story. Warning: You'll hear the story read about 4 times.