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Tell-Me-A-Story TIE 2012 Story Telling in a Digital Age

TIME: Tue, June 19, 8:45am – 10:45am Location: Conference Center Bighorn, B

Description : Today’s students must develop complex information literacy and technology skills in order to succeed both in school and in life. Explore how school librarians and teachers are improving student literacy through the infusion of educational technology.

Learning Objective: Participants will understand how storytelling, reading, and writing with an authentic purpose can enliven the classroom and strengthen students’ skills through shared examples of the multiple digital tools students can use to create these projects.

Outline:


 * 1) Why Digital Storytelling?
 * 2) Digital storytelling can add rigor to instruction when used to:
 * Build reading readiness
 * Create multimedia book/movie trailers highlighting themes, literary elements, genre, etc.
 * Create documentary type programs that educated peers
 * Create "news" broadcasts to present information from research
 * Create commercials to promote content and point of view
 * Create "how to" videos aimed at a specific audience
 * Report interviews, real or fictional that give various perspectives
 * Illustrate real-world connection of curricular concepts
 * ETC.


 * 1) Teachers as Storytellers
 * 2) Why
 * 3) How
 * 4) Tools
 * 5) Examples
 * 6) Students as Storytellers
 * 7) Why
 * 8) Connection to Standards
 * 9) Tools
 * 10) Examples
 * 11) Publishing
 * 12) On the Web
 * 13) In house
 * 14) Other