Story & Technology
Objective:
How to use the interactive aspect of technology & story
Summary:
1. Sharing thoughts, reflections, connections and opinions of a story. These thoughts could be shared on the Internet on MSN with other students in their class and / or classes around the world. Students post their opinions and comments of a story, and personal recommendations on the classes' website. Used by other students to select reading material.
2. Sharing personal stories
3. Interactive reading programs. Students use the Reading Rabbit program or other interactive stories on CD Rom.
4. An interactive drama could be used in which visuals or the audience can change music. Individuals or groups using technology would prepare this.
5. Students create a series of dramatized stories that are taped and could be viewed during storytime. Older students could create these stories for the younger students to see. The dialogue could be the exact text from the story so that the younger students could follow along in book.
6. Traditional tape recordings of stories
7. Students create their own stories on a program like Hyperstudio & i-movies
8. Slideshows - (powerpoint, kidpix, kidworks, amazing writing machine, appleworks, learning and writing centre...)or Soundtracks (musicshop, band-in-a-box...)
How to have students create their own stories
1. Provide a story making outline, a template on the computer, that will make it easy for students to whip off a story
2. Knowledge of how to create and import images to one’s story would encourage story writing
Comments:
Each one of the ideas above needs to be developed into a microteaching lesson. The P.L.O.'s need to be examined so that the original concept of Story-time is still one of the focal points. After you've created a microteaching lesson, go back and check to see if any other points in this title or the other titles have been included. There might be cross-over. Note this connection to other areas. Thanks.