This document outlines a process for combining inquiry learning and digital storytelling to create an educational documentary project. It discusses essential elements of both inquiry projects and digital storytelling. It then provides a 5 step process for a "Digital Inquiry" project where students write an inquiry paper, adapt the text for a documentary, collect images, create a storyboard, and develop the documentary using editing software. Key aspects of each step are defined. The document concludes by discussing assessment of the project and obstacles to implementing digital inquiry in the classroom.

1. Digital Inquiry: Making a Documentary Jon Orech English Department Curricular Technology Consultant Downers Grove South High School Downers Grove, Illinois

2. Essential Question: How can inquiry learning and digital storytelling be combined to create a meaningful learning experience?

5. “Digital Inquiry” Inquiry Project Digital Story- telling

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20. A comma. Think of a dissolve as a period.

21. After the dissolve, we start another, related thought. A fade is like an “enter” that implies a new topic of thought.