Schedule for the Week 2014

Theme:  "Digital Storytelling"

 

See Objectives below	Monday, July 14 Text-based Stories	Tuesday, July 15 Image-based Stories	Wednesday, July 16 Audio Stories	Thurs., July 17 Video Stories	Friday. July 18 Assessing Stories
9:00-9:30	Welcome  Introductions	Review & Discuss • what we've done • pedagogical    application • what’s coming up Constructive Comments	Review & Discuss	Review & Discuss	Review & Discuss
9:30-10:30	Storytelling  Story Process Intro – how the medium shapes the story	Search tips   Copyright & Creative Commons   Finding images • Flickr • CC Search	Adding Audio to visual narrative  - VoiceThread	Basics    Adding video  - Video DropBox   Finding Video - Creative Commons search page  - YouTube	Assessment Activity - Rubrics vs checklists  - Process vs Product - Language vs Content   CARLA's Virtual Assessment Center (VAC)   RubiStar
10:30-10:40	Break	Break	Break	Break	Break
10:40-11:45	Brainstorming Popplet Create an outline for your story	Editing images  • PhotoshopExpress Adding images to the wiki story   Stories from photos • Tell a Story in 5 Photos	- ViewPoint - Audio Dropbox Create & edit audio - Digital Audio - Audacity	Create & edit video - iMovie	Classroom Mobile Use Nearpod   Project work time  - Review and comment
12:00-1:00	(11:45) Lunch	Lunch	Lunch	Lunch	Lunch
1:00-2:30	Working with Wikis (in the "Green Wiki")   PB Works Basics  - Write self-intro  - Peer commenting  - Collaborative writing activity	Google Slides Collaboration aspects Linking to a webpage from a wiki	Finding audio/music   - iTunes & Podcast Alley  - Podcasting  - Different apps    - How to search and subscribe   - Using Audacity to edit	Video project examples Tips for recording good video   Newscast Project - Flip camera & iMovie	Project work time   Create Your Own Wiki Mobile Storytelling Twitter AudioBoo
2:30-2:40	Break	Break	Break	Break	Break
2:40-4:00	Making it mobile Other text-based applications Write the text of your story   Computing in the Cloud   (4:00-4:15: Meeting for for-credit participants)	Images and Text using Comic Life Making it mobile     Additional tools  - Glogster  - PhotoStory	Movie creation with images and voiceover narrative:  - iMovie      Additional tools:  - Audio Boo  - Podomatic   - GarageBand  (Mac)  - MovieMaker     (Windows)   Making it mobile	Video recording and editing  - Edit "newscast" as a group  - Create and edit own movie   Making it mobile	Show and Tell  - Share what you have done  - Get ideas from others   Additional Resources  - yellow wiki  - other organizations

 

 

 

 

Objectives for Monday (orientation)

At the end of this session, participants will be able to:

• Identify class members who share professional or linguistic commonalities with them
• Name at least four participants and two instructors
• Find contents in the binder
• Orient themselves physically in Jones Hall
• List the open lab hours 

 

Objectives for Monday (storytelling)

At the end of this session, participants will be able to:

• Outline the storytelling process
• Characterize a given story in terms of CDS's 7 Elements
• Cite preliminary examples of how the medium shapes the story
• Brainstorm a story topic
• Use a storyboard to begin to bring some of the 7 Elements into focus
• Describe two types of text-based activities involving peer interaction
• Define the purpose of a wiki
• Function within the CARLA-tech wikis
• Create their first story draft in the wiki

 

 

Objectives for Tuesday morning (images)

At the end of this session, participants will be able to:

• Quickly and easily find images online that are appropriate for storytelling purposes for the students in their language classes

• Digitally edit for online delivery — resize, crop, color edit

• Appropriately cite the photo source

     Tuesday afternoon (VoiceThread)

• Create an image and text-based story in Voicethread that relies on static images and text to drive the narrative

• Explore how this story could be created with other tools

• Compare different methods in terms of ease of use and pedagogical goals.

• Pedagogical goals:

• Students choosing own image vs. instructor choosing them

• Purpose of language in this story/project

 

 

Objectives for Wednesday (audio)

At the end of this session, participants will be able to:

• Search and download appropriate audio files for language learning and digital storytelling
• Create audio files by
• recording one's own voice
• editing audio from a variety of sources
• Upload audio to a web-server to make it available to the public
• Add audio to both image and video-based digital storytelling applications by
• recording directly into the application
• uploading/inserting pre-recorded audio into the application
• Describe how the use of audio in digital storytelling can target the interpretive, interpersonal and presentational modes of communication. 
• Describe how you can apply these tools and tasks in your own teaching context.  

 

 

Objectives for Thursday (video)

At the end of this session, participants will be able to:

• Search and download appropriate video files for language learning and digital storytelling
• Trim video files to a manageable length
• Create video files through a webcam
• Link to or embed a video file in a web page to make it available to the public
• Create video material with a camcorder
• record video
• import video into a computer
• edit video 
• Add audio to video-based digital storytelling applications by
• recording directly into the application
• uploading/inserting pre-recorded audio into the application
• Describe how the use of video in digital storytelling can target the interpretive, interpersonal and presentational modes of communication. 
• Describe how you can apply these tools and tasks in your own teaching context.  

 

 

Objectives for Friday (assessment)

At the end of this session, participants will be able to:

• Distinguish between process/product, rubric/checklist, language/technology
• Choose an appropriate assessment for the goals described
• Develop a rubric or checklist using an online tool

 

 

 

 

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