Storytelling and ICT

Here's a topic that quite a few teams have thought about this year. Some have introduced digital cameras for children to use and once comfortable, encourage children to use these images to voice their own stories - either digitally or printed. One has children creating stories using images based on their interests. Some have digital files on their children's computers of favourite stories and a range of props such as books, puppets, magnets etc to aid engagement in the process. One has these files to feed into dramatic playscripts that are current alongside literacy outcomes. Here's some ece research that backs up the benefits I have seen over and over where the digital storytelling has been implemented consistently and well.... click the link to see the research.. Storytelling: Keeping it Complex- Keeping it connected by Jo Colbert of NZ 

Here's a PowerPoint child's story ( or two!) done in this association some time ago... A new feature of PowerPoint is the ability to turn the finished one into a movie... yay!

 Here's a child's voice hard copy story using publisher with child's photo of their work and transcribed voice on the spot....also this association a while ago.....click on it once to make it a bit bigger if you like.

and here's a few examples of children's stories.... involving making their own and others images into a movie documenting interests of the moment.( photostory)

 

 

moving with the times

Okay- I'm not suggesting we are all as good as Joe Sabia at manipulating our machinery- but its a bit of a comment on how different generations of learners tell the same sorts of stories in very different ways.  It's our job to get on board with their learning experiences and styles to keep them excited and engaged in their learning. Joe uses an ipad as a tool to  tell his story.

Moving with the times...

Heres a link to ponder... Isla the storyteller... click on the orange title

"Peeling An Onion Blog"

Roll over Peter Jackson!

I've been cruising the various blogs I follow.Many of the blogs are from teachers involved in  day to day teaching, and some were involved  in the Ministry Funded ECEICTPl project ( 2006-2009) and are continuing their journey in the area of using ICT to communicate. Above is  a link to a blog from Margaret May who is the Head teacher from Greenhithe Kindergarten in Auckland who shows us in an October 2010 post a very small friend totally in charge of digital storytelling- using stop motion animation. I had a wee journey with a group of children at Pukerua Bay Kindergarten who were using props to make their own movies..... however we were guilty of being 'digital tourists' ( trying something out for novelty value but not embedding it into everyday practice. We never got as independent as Isla did! ka pai to mahi Isla! I must tackle that again one day.....
Meanwhile  Margaret is one of a few ece teachers who have been able to access an ' E- Fellowship' to take this work yet further. Congrats Margaret! Feel free to follow her ICT adventures in later posts on the blog... the archive is on the right of the blog.