Theme:  "Digital Storytelling"

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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