Changes

===Understanding digital stories===

===Understanding digital stories===

Take a given multimedia communication and discuss with the students the overall message (or messages) and the role and effectiveness of each of the pieces of the digital story in communicating the idea.  For example, with a sequence story or animation film, ask the children to tell the story.   

Take a given multimedia communication and discuss with the students the overall message and the role and effectiveness of each of the pieces of the digital story in communicating the idea.  For example, with a sequence story or animation film, ask the children to tell the story.   

====Notes for the teacher====

====Notes for the teacher====

1. Why has a video been used for a particular message (or messages) or could it have been captured (better) by a photograph?

1. Why has a video been used for a particular message or could it have been captured (better) by a photograph?

2. What pictures/ images have been captured?  How are they important?

2. What pictures/ images have been captured?  How are they important?

3. How different media (audio, video, image) are different?

3. How different media (audio, video, image) are different?

====Student Outcomes====

====Student Outcomes====

1. Comprehension, verbal (oral) expression from a given story/ resource

1. Comprehension, verbal (oral) expression from a given story/ resource

2. Making a story line for a given idea. This is likely to be an iterative process, initially many 'story ideas' can be brain stormed by the students and then a few selected, by explicitly assessing these stories on parameters they use

2. Making a story line for a given idea  

3. Identify key ideas for getting photos / images/ drawing pictures

3. Identify key ideas for getting photos / images/ drawing pictures

===Making a story – Photo Image Essay===

===Making a story – Photo Image Essay===

Here, we have to create a photo / image essay.  This could be either be a documentation of an event or a set of images that can be tied to tell a story or an explanation of a process.  These photographs could either be downloaded from the internet or taken by the participants (either through a camera, web camera, or a scanner) or created using MyPaint.

Here, we have to create a photo / image essay.  This could be either be a documentation of an event or a set of images that can be tied to tell a story or an explanation of a process.  These photographs could either be downloaded from the internet or taken by the participants (either through a camera, web camera, or a scanner) or created using MyPaint.