Digital Stories

Final Projects: (hosted in Google Drive & YouTube)

Lesson Examples:

Digital Tools:

  • Google Docs (research, reports, planning)

  • Google Forms (rubrics/assessments)

  • Drive or YouTube (publishing)

  • WeVideo (video editing)

  • Chrome Web Apps:

Final Digital Stories: (U32 Middle School 8th Grade)

Essential Question(s):

  • How can digital story inform, inspire and engage an audience?

  • What are the key elements of a digital story?

Standards:

CCSS.ELA-Literacy.W.8.3 Write narratives to develop real or imagined experiences or events using effective technique, relevant descriptive details, and well-structured event sequences. (* digital story is in addition to a previously written narrative)

CCSS.ELA-Literacy.W.8.3a Engage and orient the reader by establishing a context and point of view and introducing a narrator and/or characters; organize an event sequence that unfolds naturally and logically.

CCSS.ELA-Literacy.W.8.6 Use technology, including the Internet, to produce and publish writing and present the relationships between information and ideas efficiently as well as to interact and collaborate with others

CCSS Anchor Standards: Speaking & Listening “...students must have ample opportunities to take part in a variety of rich, structured conversations... Being productive members of these conversations requires that students contribute accurate, relevant information; respond to and develop what others have said; make comparisons and contrasts; and analyze and synthesize a multitude of ideas in various domains.”

“New technologies have broadened and expanded the role that speaking and listening play in acquiring and sharing knowledge and have tightened their link to other forms of communication. Digital texts confront students with the potential for continually updated content and dynamically changing combinations of words, graphics, images, hyperlinks, and embedded video and audio.”