Lots of new info this week! Loving it and anxious to use it!
I found all the sites interesting, but chose to use http://www.epals.com/
and http://alicechristie.org/search/trips.html to write about in this blog. As I surfed the site, the Digital Storytelling project on epals caught my eye. I would use this for a unit on China in Social Studies and Grandfather Tang's Story in Reading. The digital storytelling overview proved very helpful. It provided a guide with objectives, project calendar, essential and supporting questions and additional teacher resources. The NCTE and IRA standards were also cited. I would have the students take a virtual field trip using the Alice Christie site. The students would then have to search for appropriate photos and images to create a digital story about China. They would have to include images regarding China's location, weather, natural resources,food, government, and history. I think the students would be most excited about the sharing component of the project. On epals, I found 2 students from China who would like to see their projects, Yuan S. and Robert D. Robert D. is a student in a bilingual Chinese/English Primary School. It would be fun to receive correspondance from these boys as well.
Epals would provide me, the novice teacher regarding digital storytelling, with the guidance that would make me feel more secure as I embark on this new endeavor. Eventually, I may be able to add to this collaborative site and provide that same guidance for another peer.
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