Connected Schools – Six mths in

We have been working as a professional learning community for six months and we can see impact in the video below.

With the project comes regional goals and as leaders what I see as crucial now is:

• Communication with other schools (newsletter coming)
• Collaboration with others like the University and Polytechnic
• Clear internal roles such as (organiser secondary voice)
• Sharing of successes and failures (learning)
• Strategic planning for sustainability and engagement
• The creation of Reuseable and AAA (anytime ,anywhere, anyhow) material

Great to watch a lot being picked up from our community development day and being used by the students,
EBooks , Voicethread, numeracy interactives. This will make for engaged learners and improved learning outcomes.

Connected Schools Six Months in from Media team on Vimeo.

Hamilton Schools working together to create a professional learning community for themselves and other educators.

Reality Check - Digital Story

We had a look at digital stories and how to make them with students at Southwell School. No matter what, it is important to hand over the learning to the students. Well ... here are some results. No success criteria in this first attempt was laid out but we talked about copyright, tone, static images etc. The students were self motivated by the chance to work in the digital environment and to apply learning to this media genre and format.

There is some strong story telling and visual language with the voice coming through in the Siberia story strongly. We would love some feedback and a quick comment would be appreciated by the students.

Reality Check 3

Working with Year Eight students on Digital storytelling aspects the following is the sketch of what and how we will work.

Most important part I think In the Session

1. work out what we know
2. have clear learning intentions
3. interact with each other
4. try to allow cognitive rehearsal for thinking
5. create new personal knowledge

 

From an earlier collaboration with another teacher

the following are the learning intentions

What is a digital story ? Look at three of these on these sites.

http://lc.celebrateoklahoma.us/

http://seein2it.wikispaces.com/Digital+Storytelling

 

Activity

Give 1 get 1. Move around the room give someone an idea about

What a digital story is ? and

• Story like
• Emotional
• One person speaking
• Transition of pictures
• Similar to a movie
• Pictures of what it is about
• About a personal view of someone
• Past tense
• Music or Song
• Pictures are still
• Pictures and voice describing

What it Isn’t

• A movie
• Made up
• Moving pictures
• Voices out of pictures
• Just all facts

 

Look at a factual survival story

 

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uruguayan_Air_Force_Flight_571#The_crash_and_rescue

 

Fact to fake narration

The students came up with these ideas

• Good hook
• Tense : generally Past/flashback. Present .Future
• 1st person 3 rd Person
• Ending in a question (keep people wondering)
• Balancing fact and experience/emotions
• Diary form
• Suspense
• Point of view

Read the article highlight important facts perhaps collect facts as a group. the article is too big and needs to be reduced if one session is used for whole activity.

Write this as a narration

Reflect at end what was good learning what wasn’t any comment you would like to make.