Entries Tagged as 'digital storytelling'

Teaching Non-Fiction Writing- Where’s the Mentor Text?

March 31, 2010 · 1 Comment · 21st century classroom, collaboration, connective writing, multimedia in the classroom, reading, reflecting, writing

It has been said to me by many teachers that teaching non-fiction writing is the hardest thing they have to teach. From hearing those statement has really pushed my thinking about why I find non-fiction writing so enjoyable to teach.  I have learned that it is only through the act of writing that we can [...]

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Where I Am From

March 14, 2010 · 2 Comments · digital storytelling, New Writing Pedagogy, writing

Where I Am From by George Ella Lyons have inspired many writers around the world. I have used this poem as a model to help young and older writers alike.  Writers have to have real authors to model good writing . George Ella Lyons has inspired these digital stories including my own. From Sabra Bell [...]

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Digital Storytelling

March 14, 2010 · No Comments · digital storytelling, writing

Friday night and most of the day Saturday (March 12 and 13), the course I am teaching (The Digital Writing Workshop) met to unsuccessfully put together a podcast using Audacity and to write a digital story.  Friday night’s workshop we had planned to learn Audcacity but we were not able to download Audacity from the [...]

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PhotoStory 3 in the Classroom— Enjoy!

March 8, 2010 · 1 Comment · digital storytelling

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Great Collaborative Planning

September 29, 2008 · No Comments · digital storytelling

Today I had an hour phone conference with Dwight McInvall, the director of the Georgetown County Library System and Julie Warren, head of the digital collection with the library system. We spent most of the time planning our November 11, parent/student workshop on Digital Storytelling using the digital collection that can be found on-line at [...]

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