This document summarizes a student's experience in a storytelling unit that included planning, drafting, and creating a digital story. The student found it difficult to rewrite their plot and combine story elements into a storyboard. They are proud of finishing their first movie and learned new technology skills in iMovie. The student enjoyed group work when it allowed things to get done faster, but disagreed at other times. Overall, the student became better at generating ideas and collaborating as part of a group during the unit.

1. Story-telling Reflection
My Story is called IN HELL.
sThe Planning Phase:
I chose to write a fantasy genre because it is easier to write than a realistic
story. The most interesting thing about my main character is that he is a normal
person who changes so easily. I enjoyed enjoy creating the setting because it is
a rare place to start a story.
While making my plot diagram I found it difficult to re write the story. My best
idea during planning was to have rocks fall on the devils.
While planning this story I learned to put images from a camera onto the
computer.
The Drafting Phase:
It was difficult to write my story because the story is in an odd place. I am
proud of my story because it is my first story in Grade4. During the Writing
Workshops, I became better at making dialogs and speech marks.If I wrote it
again, I would improve my story by putting more dialog to make it even more
interesting.
The Digital Phase:
I am proud of my movie because it is my first full video.I found it difficult to
create the storyboard because it was hard to combined all the stories.My role
was to be the soundtrack engineer.I worked especially hard at finding the
starting music.The thing I am most happy with is that I finished my first
movie.While making the movie, I learned many new technology skills in iMovie.
I became much better at audio adjusting and timing. If I made the movie again,
I would try to make a realistic fiction story.
Collaboration:
Sometimes, I enjoyed group work because we can do things faster.
Other times, I didn’t enjoy group work because we disagreed.While working in
a group, I learned that working in a group is easier to do things.During the unit,
our group became better at thinking up more ideas and working as a group.
What else?
During this story-telling unit I especially enjoyed talking about the story. After
this unit, I might continue to play in iMovie.