Nabt09

50 Ways to Tell a Story:Participatory Media,

Literacy and Learning

NABT ’09 Robin Heyden

Raise your hand if...

Define our termsparticipatory

media?

Where my students are the authors...

A perfect fit.

Those difficult challenges...

•Unmotivated (scared?) students

•Mixed backgrounds/skills

•Too much information, too little time

21st Century Learning

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Students will create, navigate, and grow their own learning networks in

safe, and responsible ways

21st Century Skills•How to find teachers

•How to read linked environments

•How to edit in a shared knowledge environment (e.g. wikipedia)

•How to search, tag and organize information

•How to “do” social media effectively

•How to create a digital footprint

•Understand a network effect

•How to evaluate raw sources

one thing you’d like to do with

participatory media that you’re not

doing now...

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lmagesStorytelling...and a grab bag

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Images

Student Projects with Digital Images•Five-Photo Story

•Photo-a-Day

•Document a field trip

•Document a lab

•Geotag Images

•Animoto as openers or bell-ringers

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The Image Project

Storytelling

Student Projects with Digital Storytelling

•A family history (genetics)

•Form and function

•Day-in-the-Life (career focus)

•Document (or prepare for) a field trip

•Historical figure

•The story of a scientific breakthrough

•Sum up a unit, a semester, or the year

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Grab Bag O’ Stuff

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Congratulations!Now, where do you go from here?

•Teach Tools wiki www.teachtools.pbwiki.com

•My blog www.robinheyden.wordpress.com

•Talk with each other (get email addresses!)

•Email if you have questions [email protected]

•This presentation is up on slideshare.com