ICT student textbook/Tell a story

Telling a story from pictures

Objectives

1. Adding narratives to a picture essay
2. Building language communication skills - including in multiple languages
3. Building skills of creative interpretation and expression

What prior skills are assumed

1. Capturing images from different devices (Mobiles, Cameras, videos)
2. Importing images from the devices (Pen drives, Memory Cards, CD's and DVD's)
3. Organizing images on the computer
4. Familiarity with text editor - basic text entry, inserting images into a document
5. Local language typing

Resources needed

1. Computer lab with projection equipment
2. Camera or mobile for image capture
3. Collection of image files
4. Handout for Ubuntu
5. Handout for LibreOffice Writer

Digital skills

1. Local language text typing
2. Combining images and text
3. Simple formatting and layout

Description of activity with detailed steps

Teacher led activity

Open ended story

Your teacher will demonstrate how to tell a story with a set of images. In your lab computers, you will find the following images of a railway station (Warangal railway station). You must work on this in groups and make your stories. Compare your stories at the end of the class.

Given story line

Tell a story

Your teacher will show you this image in class and will discuss with you how to develop a story You will notice that in this case your story has been given; you need to add a text narrative to the story Discuss with your teacher the difference between the two story telling exercises.

Student activities

1. Go back to your photo and images from the previous activity. For each one of the image essays, add a text description to describe your image. After making a slideshow, insert the images in a document and type a phrase describing the picture. These images are your story! You use your imagination to tell the story you want.
2. In your local habitats - lake, pond, field, dry land -find out the animals that live there and develop a food chain infographic. You can either illustrate the images for the infographic or photograph them.
3. Capture photographs of food wastage in functions and hotels and tell a story
4. Take photographs/ collect photographs of local leaders and make a biographic. The biographic should have 5 images of which atleast 1 should be an illustration (draw and take a photo).
5. On your computer, you will find images of the water cycle (Venkat Reddy Sir to give images). Look at the images and add your story. Add your own illustrations (draw and take a photo)

Portfolio

1. Your collection of images (from camera, or drawn and digitized)
2. Image albums organized into a slide show
3. Your picture stories of images created
4. Infographics of local habitat and water cycle