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Celebrate Oklahoma Voices presented by Story Chasers, Inc. (an Oklahoma nonprofit) and many other partner organizations. COV is a statewide digital storytelling project empowering learners to become digital witnesses, archiving local oral history and sharing that history safely on the global stage of the Internet. More information is available on our main project website celebrateoklahoma.us.
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Video Discussion Instigators

A "video discussion instigator" (VDI) is a short lesson plan designed to encourage the use of COV videos within the curriculum. Questions are provided which can be used as an anticipatory set prior to watching the video. In addition, the following are provided on each VDI:
  1. Post-video watching questions
  2. PASS alignment
  3. Resources
  4. Extension Activities
Available VDIs include:
  1. Sitting Down for What is Right!
  2. Woodie Guthrie
  3. Osage County Fire
  4. Iraqi War: Five Years Ago
  5. Dirty Thirties
  6. Johnny Bench
  7. Oklahoma Alphabet
  8. One Room Schoolhouse
  9. Justice Elementary School
  10. Silver Spoon - A Legacy of Integrity and Compassion

Instructions for VDI Curriculum Writers:
  1. If you don't already have one, create a free Google Account. (You can create a GMail account or a "plain" Google Account.)
  2. Open the Google Document "VDI: Template. If you don't have access to this document, send an email to storychasers@gmail.com and request access.
  3. Select a video on lc.celebrateoklahoma.us/video for which you want to create a VDI.
  4. Check the Google Document "VDIs Completed and In Process" to make sure no one has created a VDI for the video you have selected.
  5. Go to FILE - SAVE AS NEW COPY before editing / adding to this document. Replace the word "template" twice (at the top of the document and just under the Google Docs logo) to with the name of the video. This is very important! If you skip this step, you will be editing this original template file, which should remain blank!!!
  6. Add your video to the Google Document "VDIs Completed and In Process" with your name (that way others hopefully won't create a VDI for the video you select.)
  7. Fill in the table below, also adding new "tags" to the actual video's page on lc.celebrateoklahoma.us.
  8. Under the SHARE tab in the upper right corner, choose PUBLISH AS WEBPAGE. Click PUBLISH DOCUMENT and click the checkbox to republish automatically when edited.
  9. Edit the Google Document "VDIs Completed and In Process" to indicate your VDI is completed!