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Digitales - DigiTales Storymaking Steps This is a general overview for crafting your story into a 3-5 minute digital movie. The process of making a digital story can be organized into four separate phases. Anyone who has learned the stages of writing will feel comfortable with working in these progressive and sometimes overlapping phases. May the seven steps outlined within the phases help guide you in translating your imagination and talents into a story you will be proud to tell. After all the guidelines, steps and rules-of-thumb, the most important element of a successful digital story is to have fun! Check this Out! The Next Big Thing for the Chromebook Classroom is Book Creator! The next big thing in the technology infused classrooms is Book Creator for Chrome. As my co-author Tanya Avrith and I get ready to publish The Chromebook Infused Classroom soon, all things point to Book Creator as the game changer in the Chromebook Classroom. You will now be able to embed ANYTHING into the book – making this an amazing learning journal – or the perfect place for students to turn in demonstrations of learning and self reflections. Here a video preview of whats to come.

35 Awesome Apps that Integrate with Google Classroom Save Pinterest Google Classroom Apps! Did you know that Google Classroom plays well with others? Yep! Guest Blog Daniel Spada: Pro TV Experience Changes the Classroom Experience Prior to becoming a middle school Language Arts Teacher, I had a career in marketing and television production at the WB Network. So when I began teaching, it was only natural for me to include video production in my classes and embed video creating into my curriculum. When I later became a Library Media Specialist, I looked at some of the major curricular units across the school and tried to find ways to use video to make students a more active part of the learning process, while giving them a creative way to demonstrate their learning. Working closely with my fellow teachers, we’ve enhanced numerous lessons and projects using video production.

Marketing Assistant Industries: Film Personality type: Communicator Argunet Editor - Argunet Argunet Editor is a free argument map editor for analyzing and visualizing complex debates. You can use it offline and save your debates on your hard-disk. Or you can use it as a client-server application. This allows you to share your debates and collaborate with others on the Argunet server. Fast sketching mode: You can use Argunet to quickly outline the macro-structure of a debate.

inklewriter - Education Education inkle is looking to bring interactive stories to the classroom, and give teachers free and simple get-stuck-right-in software to use with their students. From within a web-browser, the inklewriter will let students make and play interactive stories with no programming required. Why make stories interactive anyway? The way our stories work is simple: the reader is given the text of a story in a small chunks, and after each, they get to make a decision about what happens next. That could be what a character says, or does - but it could also be a deeper choice, like why a character has done what they've done, or how they feel about something else in the story.

Jamestown Bitmoji Project with @MatthewFarber - Teacher Tech Matthew Farber (author of “Gamify Your Classroom“) shared with me a project his student did using Bitmoji’s to represent the story of Jamestown. This project hits many of the things I value: Integrates technology, not just uses tech.Uses real things that students can relate to.Provides choice.Allows students to be creative.Asks students to communicate their ideas.Lowered fear of risk taking by not having all the elements graded.All students are doing different things.Allow students to figure things out.Values what kids value. The design of the lesson incorporates student interests such as Bitmoji. The Assignment This is the assignment Matthew posted in his Google Classroom: