This document discusses using digital storytelling to integrate technology into a lesson on poetry. It provides background on digital storytelling and how it engages students through combining images, graphics, music and sound with a personal story. The document then outlines a lesson that asks students to create a digital story by finding an image for their poem "Where I am From" and constructing the story in Windows Movie Maker. Several links are provided as examples and tutorials for digital storytelling tools and techniques.

1. “ Where I am From” Digital Poetry A lesson in integrating technology By Colleen Graves Denton Independent School District "Digital storytelling takes the ancient art of oral storytelling and engages a palette of technical tools to weave personal tales using images, graphics, music, and sound mixed together with the author's own story voice." Bernajean Porter

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3. What do we want to do? Be actively engaged Integrate technology with writing Explore ways to meet the needs of visual learners and other types multiple intelligences

4. Research- “The Learning Cycle” David Kolb from Dewey, Piaget, Lewin Deep Learning (learning for real comprehension) comes from a sequence of: Experience Reflection Abstraction Active testing

5. Research cont. “ Reflection is a search for connections.” -James Zull “ ...our experiences must matter in our lives if we are to learn from them.” -James Zull “ Storytelling builds community”- Tom Banaszewski

6. Why use Technology? Strategies that promote “Intrinsic Motivation” and maintain the process of Lifelong learning: Wikis, Blogs, Digital Storytelling, Games These types of strategies promote learner ownership of content, purpose and process. From: Barrett, H. (2005). Storytelling in higher education: A theory of reflection on practice to support deep learning.

7. Windows Movie Maker Instruction See attached Helpsheet What we want to accomplish: Find and upload one picture for our “Where I am from” Poem. You can finish your entire presentation during your work time if you so choose.

8. Student Examples Let’s visit a webpage and view an example: http://leader.louisville.edu/ edtl / kajder /outside_in/chapters. htm Show Student Sounder Videos

9. Links to check out Techie Blog: http://www.ncs-tech.org/?p=645 Digital storytelling across the content areas: http://leader.louisville.edu/edtl/kajder/outside_in/blc_digstory. htm http://bringingtheoutsidein.com/ Tech Savvy English Classroom: http://www.techsavvyenglish.com/ Center for Digital Storytelling : http://www.storycenter.org/

10. More Links: Examples of Digital Stories: http://leader.louisville.edu/edtl/kajder/outside_in/chapters. htm MovieMaker Tutorial with screen shots: http://leader.louisville.edu/edtl/kajder/outside_in/chapters. htm Scroll down and look for Movie Maker Tutorial "Part one" and "Part Two"

11. Bibliography Salpeter, Judy (2005) Telling Tales with Technology retrieved June 6, 2007 from Tech Learning website: http://www.techlearning.com/shared/printableArticle.php?articleID=60300276 Barrett, H. (2005). Storytelling in higher education: A theory of reflection on practice to support deep learning . Technology and Teacher Education Annual 2005. Charlottesville, VA: Association for the Advancement of Computing in Education, pages 1878-1883. PowerPoint slides online at: http://electronicportfolios.com/portfolios/Kean.pdf

12. Bibliography cont. Banaszewski, T. (2002). Digital storytelling finds its place in the classroom . Multimedia Schools Retrieved June 6, 2007 from Infotoday website: http://www.infotoday.com/MMSchools/jan02/banaszewski. htm