Strengthen your biography section using digital storytelling by combining digital, visual, and media literacy to enhance broader nontraditional approaches of reading, writing, speaking, and art appreciation. Students can create a variety of resources including audio narration, digital graphics, text, and video clips. As they create their stories, students gain a greater understanding of online resources and increase their media and visual literacy skills.
Improving teaching and learning so that students use information literacy skills to produce work that meets standards of high quality. Professional collaboration brings teachers and school library media specialists together to design learning activities that teach students the steps and criteria for effective and efficient inquiry, thus setting the stage for lifelong learning.
Connecting to AASL's Standards for the 21st-Century Learner:
Students will apply the research methods associated with historical inquiry.
Mini-Documentary Assignment - Adapted from a unit developed by Dan Meder, Media Production Teacher, Springfield Township High School, Erdenheim, PA. Power Tools Recharged, Valenza, Joyce Kasman. American Library Assoication, Chicago, 2004.
The University of Houston: the educational uses of digital storytelling
Fakebook Template by Amy Mayer
And to Think I Saw Dr. Seuss on Facebook
Glogster - Interactive posters
Reboot the Dead: breathing life into biographies
Sitepal - 3D Voki's (requires paid membership)
Albert Einstein Through the Eyes of Makalya
QR Technology - Market your library
StoryJumper - publish your own book
Voki For Education - avatars with motion and voice
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Eddika Castaneda - Reading Interventionist ecastaneda1@unitedisd.org
Analine Johnson - Librarian ajohnsont@unitedisd.org