Digital Story

Last semester I had the opprotunity to create a children's story book for my music class. The book itself contains approximately ten pages with text and descriptive pictures. This week in my technology class we were required to create a storyboard for our digital storybook and due to mine already being completed, its nature as an original project, the storyboard had been completed long ago. The digital story version of the project will be complied through a reading of the story as well as a slide show of the project with an addition of music where necessary or applicable.

The story line details a young boy searching for a costume to Trick-or-Treat on Halloween. He goes through various options with his mother including: an astronaut, cowboy, superhero, ghost, ninja, prince, and a pirate. After finding flaws in each costume, he eventually ends up going as a Jelly Bean Box due to his mother's nickname for him, "Jelly Bean." The pictures are drawn with colored pencil and there are eleven images in all.

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The content I will be using is introduction to various vocabulary (especially that of sight words), points of plot, as well as predictable storylines.

The pedagogy aspect of this assignment offers students the ability to eventually create their own digital storybook, demonstrating the usage of plot, characters, and language itself. It places the learning in the hands of the students in order to solidify the concepts being taught.

The technology is a good fit for both the content and the pedagogy in that it provides students the oprotunity to post their work for others to see, lets them experiment with new technological techniques, and helps enforce their reading abilities. Overall, the technology truly places the project in the hands of the students in a form that they may enjoy and be proud of.