The drawings from the famous "Real Beauty Sketches" campaign, which won the Titanium Grand Prix this year. At left, a woman as described to a sketch artist by the woman. At right, the woman as described by a stranger.
WOW! Even more powerful! This shows the impact media has made on us. The left is the woman describing herself and the right is a STRANGER describing her!!! INSANE!
Fake ads cleverly pushed for better literacy rates in France
thumbs-up means nothing in this brutal campaign pleading for more tangible charity support than a like on Facebook.
Virtual Nerd is developing a nicely organized site. The videos are primarily symbolic in nature but are thorough, organized, and do a nice job of modeling notes to accompany the explanations.
Thank you, Jennifer, for sharing your process on digital storytelling. I teach middle school English and am not as tech-savvy as you, but I know the value of a well-planned multimedia project for students. I am inspired to plan out a similar project, now that I see how to do it. I like that they create a storyboard and script to emphasize the "meat" of their project and not the glitzy stuff. Their narrated videos are quite impressive. Your students are lucky to have you!
Thanks Irene! The students did such an amazing job. You really don't have to be tech-saavy to employ this in your classroom. The software is already so user-friendly. The person who taught me how to do this was an English teacher - she would use it with poetry, so that students would have to emphasize emotion in their reading. Very effective!
Jennifer, this is wonderful! I love how you give your students choices of which app to use and how you place the onus on them to learn it and to troubleshoot on their own. This is something that I teach in my computer classes because students have to acquire and feel comfortable with that skill. Thanks!
Remember that it is NOT about the tools we use with our students, but the skills we are exposing them to and want them to get proficient in.
need to evaluate and interpret information
tag bookmarks (their own and/or the ones collected by their teacher)
summarize bookmarks (their own and/or the ones shared by teacher)
take advantage of “experts in the field” (by subscribing to their RSS for specific tags)
learn to search for relevant information beyond “googling”
collaborate with other members of a study group (local or global)
a critical mistake when introducing digital tools by assuming that armed with a username and a password, students will automatically find meaningful ways to learn together.