Mayfield Kindergarten Home Videos

Lots of wonder project teams have been dabbling with movie making and digital capture using photostory 3..... It's ben great to see learning documented in a different way that resonates with children as well as connects with families. Here's some NZ research done by Mayfield Kindergarten specifically around getting involvement of families in the learning........a great way to get multiple perspectives into learning documentation.... here's the link to a user friendly thumbnail version of this 3 year project from the ece educate site... http://www.educate.ece.govt.nz/learning/spotlight/MayfieldHomeMovies/WhatWeDid.aspx?p=2

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)