1) Flick-It-On! is a collaborative digital storytelling project led by Emma Watts that has students from different schools in New Zealand working together in teams to create 2-3 minute films. 2) The project involves rotations where students first create a silent film, then add sound effects and voiceovers, music to convey emotion, and finally editing. They use Dropbox to share their work across rotations. 3) The goals of the project are to support teacher professional learning and sharing, as well as grow student learning through using film to communicate their learning in any area of the New Zealand curriculum.

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Flick-It-On! Collaborative Digital Storytelling
Emma Watts - Upper Moutere School
emma@uppermoutere.school.nz / www.r4umo2013.blogspot.com
twitter: emmerw / www.emmawatts.wikispaces.com

2. To operate an enriching film school project to support
collaborative teacher professional learning and
sharing and to grow student learning through the
effective use of film to communicate their learning.

4. 2010
Funding from the Whakatu
Cluster
Kids Can Film Festival – 3 day
film festival
2011
First year of Flick-It-On!
Followed on from the Kids Can
Film Festival – sustainability &
embed film making into
classroom programmes
2012
Second year Flick-It-On!
Flick-It-On! 1 day workshops
for teachers & students (run by
local teachers) before the
rotations started

5. Flick-It-On!
Classes from different schools around NZ collaborating in
teams of 4
Learning how to storyboard, film, act, animate, add voiceover
& sound effects, add music to show mood & emotion, edit....
Creating a 2-3min movies based on a theme or concept in 10
weeks!

7. Rota%on
1:
1-­‐3
min
Silent
movie
4
weeks
Rota%on
2:
Add
sound
effects
&
voice
2
weeks
Rota%on
3:
Add
music
to
show
mood
&
emo7on
2
weeks
Rota%on
4:
Edi7ng,
7tles
and
effects
2
weeks

8. Dropbox
We
passed
on
each
rota7on
through
using
Dropbox
-­‐
each
teacher
set
up
a
free
account
Deadlines
We
set
the
deadline
as
the
Thursday
of
the
final
week
of
each
rota7on
to
allow
for
any
glitches!
We
encouraged
teachers
in
each
rota7on
to
contact
each
other
early
rather
later!

9. Commitment
Teachers
‘buy
in’
to
rota7on
deadlines.
2013
Flick-­‐It-­‐On!
Applica7on
Form
to
take
part
in
the
project.
Intellectual
Property
Using
copyright
free
images,
sound
effects
and
music.
2013
Flick-­‐It-­‐
On!
Teachers
to
complete
license
to
use
material
forms.
Release
Forms
For
individuals
making
/
taking
part
in
the
film.

10. why take
part?
http://www.flickr.com/photos/27386920@N06/3747599568/

11. communicate
collaborate
create
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photos/21563721@N00/4424552903/">Lollym
... to become confident, connected, actively
involved, lifelong learners.
NZ Curriculum - Page 39

12. ...exposing yourself to as
much serendipity, as much
argument and conversation,
as many rival and related
ideas as possible; to borrow, to
repurpose, to recombine...
good ideas happen in
networks....
http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/2010/
oct/19/steven-johnson-good-ideas
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collaborate

13. Finally, we all get to tell
our story in our own way.
Jason Ohler
Communicate
Photo Credit- <a href="http-//www.flickr.com/photos/22144986@N00/4164756091/">Florian

14. Media fluency
means being a
‘prosumer’ - an
effective
consumer and
producer of
digital content.
From:
Literacy is NOT enough
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Communicate

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create

17. creativity
Digital storytelling helps students develop
creativity and innovation skills needed to
solve important problems in imaginative ways.
Jason Ohler

18. http://www.flickr.com/photos/
20605599@N00/2594561652/
“If you can crack the problem of engagement - not just
‘are you paying attention?’ but ‘are you fascinated by
this?’ - if you can crack engagement in deep learning
then you’ve cracked 21st century schooling.”
Mike Berrill
engage

19. Digital stories combine traditional &
emergining literacies, enagaging otherwise
reluctant students in literacy development.
Jason Ohler
engage

20. 20
Integrate
sources
of
informa7on
and
to
create
and
express
their
ideas
(process
&
strategies)
Shape
digital
texts
for
different
purposes
(purpose
&
audience)
Select,
form
and
express
their
ideas
(ideas)
Develop
their
awareness
of
the
effects
of
language
(language
features)
Develop
their
skills
in
organising
digital
texts
(structure)
How
does
film
making
support
student
learning?
Literacy
Learning
Outcomes

21. 21
How
does
film
making
support
student
learning?
Through
crea%ng
digital
narra%ves
and
documentaries
students…
• share
new
learning
• interpret
the
past
• develop
new
thinking
for
a
sustainable
social,
cultural,
economic
and
environmental
future
at
a
local,
na%onal
and
global
level
In
any
NZ
curriculum
area

23. If it ain’t on the page, then it ain’t on the
stage...media projects are a great way to sneak
writing in under the radar.’
Jason Ohler
engage

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Flick-It-On! Collaborative Digital Storytelling
Emma Watts - Upper Moutere School
emma@uppermoutere.school.nz / www.r4umo2013.blogspot.com
twitter: emmerw / www.emmawatts.wikispaces.com