School is out! Hurray! And the family emergency continues to plague me...
But back to my GAME plan! I think I have figured wiki's out enough to lead a classroom full of students into a collaborative endeavor using one. There are still things I will continue to learn about them I am certain but I now feel comfortable enough to set another goal. I need to create a few digital stories myself. I will not feel comfortable having my students build one unless I can more or less do it myself and therefore do basic troubleshooting for them.
Powerpoint is one of the more common applications/software available that would work for this purpose so I will start with that. I will try to combine the effort with a great Christmas gift for the grandparents. This means that I will have a wonderful subject, my son, and incorporate pictures, video, music and narration. I think if I can get all four of those elements into a story/update about my son I will have mastered the most basic elements of a digital story. Also, burning it onto a DVD and or saving it to a thumbdrive will be another great accomplishment in my GAME plan. Woohoo! Progress in technology education!
I think the process of forming a GAME plan would be very beneficial to students. One of the digital stories I do could be about forming a GAME plan and the NETS-S with my students. Before doing the wiki or the digital story we could go over what the students want to work on. As long as I am modeling and supporting those goals through assignments that involve technology the students will find motivation and enthusiasm to meet the goals they make for themselves.
I'm quite impressed on your wiki accomplishments. I have been saying all along I'm still not comfortable with them. Powerpoints are a great place to start in the digital photostory world, however if it is feasible Photostory is a great program to use as well for digital story telling.
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Kathleen
You know, I was looking at the possibility of using photostory! I want to try it and will use it to create at least one just to see how it goes. I know there is a free version of it to be downloaded but I think it is just the trial version. Have you made a digital story using both photostory and powerpoint? Could you tell me the differences between the two? I imagine photostory to be easier because the name alone sounds like it was built with a digital story in mind!
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