I had previously done another MOOC about this interesting topic in education thanks to Coursera and wrote about it as I had started it by chance and I didn't think about the great potentialities of DS.
The MOOC was in Italian- last year I did another course about creating ebooks thanks to the Italian platform and it was really helpful. This MOOC was a lonely journey- the online tutors did not provide much feedback but they gave us lots of documents online and information about the many web tools which we can use to write our stories.
This is a personal reflection on what we should do as DS is a wonderful way for getting our students more engaged and I would add that it is useful for English Language Learners too as they can use the target language and in a creative way.
We were guided by an expert teacher who presented different stories which the University in Milan had supported and studied by creating a special platform. I might decide to try to participate in the annual events they run for schools presenting their stories next year.
In the final task I was asked to create an activity online and I chose the topic " Earth Day" to create a task that might suit many classes while students read, watch videos and write about this global issue.
I decided to start by using Twitter and thanks to this social network I could have access to many resources for educators.
I also checked what people had written about this topic and I found this interesting ebook created by using a tool which was listed among the many tools we can use to do DS tasks: Story Jumper.
Here is the first part of my activity created by using a new tool which combines the features of narration with collaboration too: I think that it could be used by students to mix their stories in projects. Its name is Sutori.
The topic was Earth Day but you could use the tool for writing skills and other class projects.
When we plan DS tasks we need to think about a lot of things:
- how to work
- what kind of final output we might expect our students to create
- how to evaluate the student's work
It can be very demanding and that's the reason why I have not done it so far. The projects they have presented us in theMOOCc show very simple stories so I am thinking of trying to use some of the best ideas for getting starting with DS in my school next year.
Here is the link to the task which I have just uploaded :
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1vsSSv2u0RKBxDwREcZL0_QwJio8-5dkiANY9ivUjzXc/edit?usp=sharing
In the final part of the document you will find important links to rubrics for evaluation.
There are so many tools that I feel I will need to try only the simple ones but it will be worth trying them.
Resources and Ideas online
http://www.youblisher.com/p/12234-Digital-Story-Telling/
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