PE6_Final_Project

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Relevant and Innovative Learning Scenarios Planning

By: Rosalynn Locklear

1. Target Audience – 4 Kindergarten Students (1 team of 4)

2. Materials – Mac, and Storyjumper.com, iMovie, crayons, and drawing paper.

3. Objectives:

· The student will demonstrate sense of story by creating and printing a book online.

4. Procedure –

· The students will (TSW) brainstorm a topic to write about.

· TSW create a draft of a story.

· TSW go to StoryJumper.com

· TSW work collaboratively to create a story.

· TSW will share their story with other Students (Kindergarten-Fifth Grade)

5. Web 2.0 Tool – StoryJumper.com: This tool allows you to create storybooks online. The stories are then available for reading online, or the story can be printed out.

6. Social Participation/Social Learning –For this lesson, 4 students will be paired into a team. The group is responsible for creating/printing a storybook online. TSW then share their end product with other students within the school.

7. Making Connections – Kindergarten students are familiar with the concept of a book. They are aware that authors write the stories and illustrators provide the pictures to go along with the story. Students have previously drawn pictures and written a couple of sentences to go along with it, but they have not created a professional looking piece of work before. This will be a great motivator for the students.

8. Create/Produce – The end product will be a story book created by the two Kindergarten Teams

9. Assessment: The students will be assessed on the end product, which in the case will be the story that is created.

10. Reflection – Students will make a video to reflect upon their experience. This video will then be shared with their classmates. As a self-reflection, I will make a podcast describing the pros and cons of my experience.

PE5-StoryJumper

By: Rosalynn Locklear

I wanted to find out more about StoryJumper.com. What better way to learn, than by doing. So, I logged into my free account that I created and I took a look around. It is super user friendy. If you look at the pic above, all the way to the left, their are tabs. The tabs are props, which are clip art items you can add. Then the scene tab allows you to choose various backgrounds. The photos tab allows you to upload pictures from your computer into storyjumper.com....which doesn't take long at all. The last tab allows the input of text using text boxes/bubbles.
The above shot captured a storybook that I am creating. It is called "Me", and I am making it for my 6 month old to have later on. I just dragged and dropped pics onto the pages, and sized them the way I wanted them. You can also choose shapes for your pics (circular, star, rectangle).
This screenshot is a display of the crop tool for pictures on StoryJumper.com. It's super simple. Just click on the corners to adjust the size and then click done. This is going to be amazingly easy for my Kindergarten students as they prepare a story book online.
This is a shot of my completed project. It only took about 20-25 minutes to make the entire book. You simply click on "Read" to read it. It actually makes the sound that a hard cover book would when opening the book on the table, as well as page turning sounds. This is a wonderful site. I can't wait to use this as my RILS with my Kindergarten teams.

Click here to check out the book I made for AJ.

PE4-StoryJumper

Over the past two weeks, I have researched several web 2.0 tools, and found a lot that will be beneficial to me in my classroom. However, there was one that really stood out to me. I have chosen to use StoryJumper.com as my Relevant and Innovative Learning Scenario. StoryJumper is a web 2.0 tool that allows you to create storybooks online. The books are then made available for print starting at $24.99. I am going to play around with it, and see what I can make. This is going to be a great way for my students to create an end product that incorporates sense of story and technology.

Currently, I let my students write and illustrate about story topics, which is good, but this site would make the products so professional. Students would definitely take pride in this assignment, and would gladly share their knowledge with other kids around them. This should be a great motivation tool as well.

So far, StoryJumper.com seems very user friendly. You do have to create an account, which is free, and it only takes a minute to sign up. Students can sign up also, but there is an age requirement to be able to order the books that are created. There is also a link to click on if you are a teacher. This link allows you to set up your students in your class within your account. The teacher has access to create usernames for the students, and is able to see the items that have been created.

BP7_Commerical_by_Rosalynn

By:Rosalynn Locklear

BP6_Link_to_Mark's_Blog

Click on the link to check out my comments on StoryJumper by Mark.

BP5_Link_to_Lanias_Blog

By: Rosalynn Locklear

Hey....follow my link to Lania's blog to see my comments.

BP4_GoAnimate.com

By: Rosalynn Locklear

There were a lot of web 2.0 tools that I could possibly use on a daily basis, as well as with my CBR Project. For this blog, I chose to review GoAnimate.com. GoAnimate.com is a website that allows you to create animated videos. When you first log in you will need to create a user account, and from there you are able to create characters. After you create you characters, you are able to create different scenes, just like in a movie….it’s the same concept of iMovie.

There is a free version, which offers the basics, and then there is a plus package that you have to pay for, but you get access to more characters, backgrounds, voices, and props. You also get to earn bucks by completing certain tasks on GoAnimate.com. You can take the bucks and buy some of the things that come with the plus package.

First, you will need to brainstorm an idea for the movie. Once you have a basic idea, you can choose a background for your scene. There are templates that you can use, or you can use a blank one. Then one is able to add characters. You can change the expression and movements of the characters. Then it’s time to add audio. This can be recorded through a microphone or pre-recorded. Or, if you’d like, it offers the option of text-to-speech. In this case, you are able to choose built-in voices that match your character. I thought this would be a great tool to use to retell a story, or an interesting way to teach a specific concept.

Click here to see what I made in GoAnimate.com!