TELA Project: Write Your Own Legend
November 24, 2012 at 7:01 pm | Posted in P1, P4 | 1 CommentTags: digitalstorytelling, edtc 6536, instructionaltechnology, TELA
Hi all,
Attached is my TELA project for our Instructional Technology class! This project involves designing an educational activity around an instructional tool and describing how it meets the standards for Washington State as well as the NETS standards developed by the International Society for Technology in Education. In this project, fifth-grade students create and present their own myth or legend using the digital storytelling website Myths and Legends. It’s a fun and engaging activity that will make kids excited about creative writing!
Here is the Myths and Legends website:
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Anne,
I love that you chose digital storytelling and on a topic, myth and legends, that students tend to usually enjoy because there are so many options for fitting fantasy, heroes, and a magical quality into their stories! I had not come across this tool when I was searching for a resource. After looking at the site, I would want to experiment (like I’m sure you would) to make my own story and see how difficult it is to record myself or add sound effects. I can see how a lot of students may choose to narrate their stories during their presentations, so they are really utilizing the images and characters to tell their story without having to worry about what they sound like.
I am wondering about the minimum length of the story though; I have limited experience in K-5 grades (several years of volunteer time and the last three months of subbing), but I believe that it is too little writing for a class as a whole. I know that you are pursuing Special-Education endorsements and modifications are always necessary; I can see how individual modifications could be made, but these might be more around the delivery of the text/story and not actually the generating of it as I have found students can often ‘create’ stories in the air or by speaking them, but they have difficulties getting these stories on paper and possibly in the right sequence. If students have a beginning, middle, and end page, introduce their character, the problem, and the solution then it seems that they should have at least 7 pages, but have a few more sentences on each of those pages. You have designed the project so that students are in front of you (which I too needed to do with so much limited access), so I would suggest setting the minimum standard higher with supports and modifications built in for those students who need the extra time and help.
Also, I am curious about a rubric or how you will grade it. Will it be holistically? I guess it might depend on time spent on it too, so that if students are spending over a week on the project that they have built in “class work” activities that add into the final grade of the story creation or you could add in a partial nod to their self-assessments of their own stories along with a very simple rubric stating any form requirements (type, punctuation, grammar) and then content expectations (pages, sentences, character development, story structure, etc.)
I am definitely going to bookmark this site for future use as I just had a student ask me yesterday when he could write about fantasy, which this would allow for in part!
Comment by abbyla21— December 1, 2012 #