Bring Your Story to Life!! Combining Digital Storytelling and Web 2.0 Websites to Assess Understanding in our Students Scott MacCrum

Bring Your Story to Life!!Web Spaces that combine Digital Storytelling and Web 2.0 to Promote Creativity and Assess Understanding

By Scott MacCrumWho is Scott Maccrum?

Teacher of Humanities/ICT (DoE) 10 Years Now Senior Education Officer, ICT PL (DoE)Working with 30 schools in South of TasmaniaPromoting ICT in Southern Tasmanian schools (All LSS staff)no expert!! Here to show you what has been found (and to learn from others!!)On a journeyEnjoys gardening and dinner parties2 girls under 3 years of age (and a beautiful wife!)

1 9 1Timeslot (2-3.30pm) / Concurrent / Hopefully no. Workshops Of people who will stay til end The PLAN for Today:A Background to Web 2.0 and Digital Storytelling (and where that places Education)A Closer Look at 4 safe WebspacesHow Good and Safe are these Websites/Spaces?A Checklist for SUCCESSMYO (Make Your Own) (If Time Permits)

To discuss digital storytelling and web 2.0 concepts with the group (and education)

To show a few safe/protected websites that encourage creativity and communication amongst students and teachers.

To provide a checklist of what should be considered before using any of the websites mentioned today.

To emphasise that this is an innovative area of ICT in education (Patience is needed!!)

OUTCOMES FOR TODAYAnd for you to have made an animation like this: A Background to Web 2.0 and Digital Storytelling (and where that places Education) This was known as: Web 1.0People were saying:

I can only view/read websites; I cant edit or change them!!!!Who makes these websites????When the InternetFirst started:

The Clock has Ticked by since those days!!

New Websites Could be Made by Anyone (eg. Frontpage, Dreamweaver programs)

Very Soon......................................

More and More websites were being made by people around the world.People could even decide what their Web Address (URL) Would look like.....................................

They wanted to talk with each other using Computers/ICTBut the people of the world wanted more.....

CHATTINGINSTANT MESSAGINGSOCIAL NETWORKING

Is what they wanted!!And what the people want.........

They sometimes Get!!!!

The People Got : Social Networking and Web 2.0Now they could communicate with each other and share ideas and work across the internet.

Particularly in educationBut did the people know what new challenges the world would face because of this???

using ICT to create a new way of looking at story writing/Assignments.

Examples: Movie Maker, PIVOT, Stop Motion Animaton, PowerpointWhat is Digital StorytellingInnovation Great way for students to collaborate and learn from each otherVsDUTY OF CARE and RESPONSBILITY FOR STUDENTSPRIVACY OF INFORMATION LAWSONLINE SAFETY FOR STUDENTSThe Situation for Education Now..On 1 Side we have:And on the other side we have

How it works:

Teacher signs up for teacher accountTeacher signs up each studentTeachers gives students their usernames and passwordsnoone else can view or participate in blog besides teacher and students

THEN ALONG CAME: EDUBLOGS: A GREAT WAY FOR STUDENTS TO EXCHANGE IDEAS IN A SAFE, PASSWORD PROTECTED WEBSPACE

EDUBLOGS USED AROUNDTHE WORLD BY THOUSANDS

Changed from Web 1.0 to Web 2.0students looking for highly engaging, creative and stimulating waysOur students are using these types of spaces now in their home lives and some are not using them very well!!!Teaching our students about these Web 2.0 spaces and educating them.Downloadable Programs being replaced with free sign-up web spacesIt is just good to know what is out there (and what is coming!).

WHY DO I NEED TO KNOW ABOUT ALL THIS?

A Closer Look at the 4 WebsitesGoanimate4schools

zooburst

The Art of storytelling

Make belief comix

How Good and Safe are these Websites/Spaces?

4 web spaces that combine elements of both Digital Storytelling and Web 2.0.Free (or inexpensive)2 of them are Password Protected spaces2 allow Teacher Accounts to be set upNo Sign-up processes for students (teachers do this for 2 of the websites)No personal information needs to be supplied by students, only email address asked for (try tempalias to protect identity)Highly engaging spacesA new way of demonstrating understanding on a topic/theme.WHAT MAKES THESE 4 WEBSPACES SO SAFE?Click here to see characteristics of each websiteA CHECKLIST FOR SUCCESS

Prezi PresentationWhat do teachers need to do/think about when considering this type of Website?

What other considerations need to be looked at?

Teacher confidence, Account settings, Clientel, Student knowledge, School, Is it worth it?, Time, Societal views, Lack of knowledge

Lets Have a Real look at all 4 webspaces

Website: http://goanimate4schools.com/public_index

Teacher Sign Up Process: fill out the form at: http://goanimate4schools.com/public_signup#signup_form They will send you an email later on with your own unique class URL that you and your students will use.

Example: http://ictscotty.blogspot.com/2011/03/my-first-hollywood-blockbuster-made.html

my school account is at: www.goanimate4schools/school/lss elearningeelearning

Goanimate

Website: www.zooburst.com

Teacher Sign Up Process: go to: www.zooburst.com and sign up as teacher in drop down box;You will get an email;Sign in with username and password at http://www.zooburst.com/index.php?state=selectlogin (Teacher account);Go to: http://www.zooburst.com/zb_subscribe.php and follow the prompts to buy the class account (250 students).

For more info about pricing and acccounts:http://www.zooburst.com/zb_pricing.php#numstudents

Example: http://www.zooburst.com/zb_books-viewer.php?book=zb0_4ce4aba86cde7

More Examples: http://www.zooburst.com/zb_gallery.php

ZooBurst

Website: http://www.makebeliefscomix.com/

Teacher Sign Up Process: N/A

Example:send by emailappears in email as a weblink to click on

Make Belief Comix

Website: www.artofstorytelling.org

Teacher Sign Up Process: N/A

Example: sent by email to someoneelse, author puts in email details

The Art of Storytelling

www.theartofstorytelling.org

http://www.writecomics.com/ http://www.makebeliefscomix.com/ http://www.readwritethink.org/classroom-resources/student-interactives/comic-creator-30021.html

SIMILAR (CLASS ACCOUNT) WEBSITES**Cybersafety Course and Parental Permission Needed**MYO (Make Your Own) (If Time Permits)

There are a lot of these types of websites out there on the internet.

Many aresafe and password protected and have teacher accounts that can be set up.

Opportunities exist for collaboration and creativity.

Need to be patient, as this is a new area of ICT and Education.

Web 2.0 tools are a great concern in Education Departments (due to privacy of information and chatting etc.)

School needs to have a solid cybersafety course taught to whole school at start of year.

Parents need to be kept in touch.

StudentsUser agreeements need to be updated and maintained by schools

Some Final Thoughts

For more resourceswww.ictscotty.blogspot.com