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How to: Digital Story Telling


  • Coming soon to a lesson near you, we're going to explore how to tell a story like Ken Burns.

  • Click here to see & hear my digital story performance of Emily Dickinson's "Hope is the thing with feathers". 

  • If you're a Mac user, you may need to click & download this program to be able to see and hear the digital story.

Digital Story Poetry Performance

 

Create a digital story performance of a poem.  Just what is a digital story performance of a poem? Click here to view a sample.  

To create your own digital story poetry performance, just follow these steps:

 

Step # 1: Select a poem from the Poetry 180 Collection or any of the following periods:

 

 

Step # 2: Complete a triple-entry response to the poem.

 

Step # 3: Using your triple entry response as a resource, complete a digital story performance draft.

 

Step # 4: Using your performance draft as a guide, research to locate images. Keep these images together in one folder.

 

Step # 5: Using your digital story performance draft as a guide, locate music to use as a soundtrack for your performance. (Sound files must MP3 files.) Keep all sound files together in one folder. Looking for music? Use this resource. (See Mrs. Juster for user name and password.)

 

Step # 6: Record the poem in your own voice (see Mrs. Juster for recorder which will convert your recording to an MP3 file). Add this recording to your sound folder.

Step # 7: Use Noodle Bib to create a "Works Cited" document for the poem, music and images (outside of clipart) in your digital story.

 

Step # 8: Use Audacity to combine voice/sound/music recordings into one MP3 file. (If you don't have Audacity at home, click here for a free download.) Keep your completed MP3 recording (voice & music) in your sound folder. Be sure to label it carefully so you can identify it later.

 

Step # 9: Open Photo-Story. (If you don't have this at home, click here for a free download.)

 

Step # 10: Add all images to Photo Story.

 

Step # 11: Use your digital story performance draft to place each photo in the correct sequence.

 

Step # 12: Create a title "slide" out of your first image and a "Works Cited" slide out of the last image(s). Refer to your digital story performance draft and this sample.

 

Step # 13: Add your completed MP3 recording (voice & music) to Photo Story.

 

Step # 14: Edit & refine & "publish" your completed digital story. Save a copy of your completed digital story to our save folder.

 

 Scoring Rubric for Digital Story Poetry Performances  

 An LHS school-wide rubric specified for our course curriculum: LITERACY THROUGH READING

  •  Performance communicates an engaged and in-depth understanding of the poem.

 

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LITERACY THROUGH READING

Reflects an engaged and in-depth understanding of the text.

Reflects a developing understanding of the text.

Reflects an adequate but limited understanding of the text.

Reflects a minimal and disengaged understanding of the text.

Does not reflect or fails to make a  meaningful effort to understand text.

 

An LHS school-wide rubric specified for our course curriculum: LITERACY THROUGH WRITING

  • "Title Slide" and "Works Cited Slide" follows all assignment conventions. 

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B

C

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F

 

LITERACY THROUGH WRITING

Demonstrates mastery in word choice, conventions, and voice/tone.

Is effective, revealing only minor, occasional lapses in conventions,  word choice and voice/tone

Needs improvement and reveals consistent errors in conventions, word choice and voice/tone. 

Significant and consistent errors in conventions, word choice and voice/tone reflect  minimal effort.

Fails to make a meaningful effort in conventions, word choice and voi

 

 

An LHS school-wide rubric specified for our course curriculum: LITERACY THROUGH THE ARTS

  •  Images and music convey an understanding of the poem that goes beyond simply illustrating the poem's words and phrases. 

 

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F

 

LITERACY THROUGH THE ARTS

 

Demonstrates careful planning…shows creativity, originality, effort, and pride well beyond the requirement.

Demonstrates … some creativity, originality, effort, and pride.

Demonstrates lack of planning, creativity, originality; completed but could have been improved with more effort…somewhat careless.

Completed but shows little effort; displayed little evidence of planning, creativity, effort, craftsmanship, and pride

Incomplete or minimally done; no evidence of planning, craftsmanship, or effort.