During term 3 the two year 1 classes created their own digital stories (videos) as part of their Unit of Inquiry titled
People express their ideas, feelings and culture through stories.
To create the stories, the students (with help from staff) …
- Hand wrote their story.
- Drew the title page and a few illustrations on A4 paper.
- Scanned the drawings and saved them as image files.
- Recorded the student’s reading the story using the voice memo functions on the staff’s mobile phones.
- Created a project in Windows Live Movie Maker.
- Added a title page, pictures, narrations, music, special effects and credits to the project.
- Saved the project as a video file ready for viewing by the rest of the class and parents.
Mrs Thelning’s class invited their parents & other family members in to school to view their digital stories. It was wonderful to see the students showing their work to their families. Not only did they show their digital story that they had put so much effort into, but they also demonstrated their ability to log on, plug in headphones, find files, set the volume and so on.
Here are some of the student’s digital stories (reduced in size for quicker viewing).