Part 3: Digital Storytelling
The third project will focus on constructing a response through digital storytelling, using moviemaking software, such as iMovie or Windows MovieMaker. You will integrate images, narration, text, movement, sounds, and music during the design process as you consider the different affordances and limitations for making meaning through this medium. Workshop time is provided, for which you are expected to be prepared and actively engaged. You will need to complete any remaining work outside of class time. See Rubric for more specific details. See MAPS heuristic for more specific details.
Mode |
Genre of the text:
Narrative story constructed by integration of image, narration, text, movement, sounds, and/or music |
Media |
The way in which the text is presented:
Windows Movie Maker, iMovie, or other video publishing software |
Audience |
Characteristics of those who will receive your work:
Prospective students (provided grade level) Peers |
Purpose |
Refers to the specific action that a writer aims to accomplish with a piece:
What is the prompt or task you are responding to by creating this piece? What do you want students to demonstrate by completing this project? Would you include elements of genre, writer's craft, analysis? Would you ask the writer to make connections to other books, the real world, or their own lives? Would you focus on creativity or reader-generated topics? You must individually determine the purpose for this project by considering your selected book, mode, media, audience, situation, and individual motivations and interests as a reader and teacher. |
Situation |
Demands of the writing task:
This project will serve as a mentor/sample to guide prospective students in their own design of this project for the same or a different text. It will be shared with peers at the Digital Salon later in the semester. |
Sample Purpose statements...
Keep in mind that actually writing any of these assignments would require much greater detail than provided. However, you only need to create the essential task/purpose to which you are responding to by creating your project:
Create a digital story that rewrites the final chapter of the book.
Create a digital story that tells a chapter (or the book) from another character's point of view.
Create a digital story that explores an issue from the book as it relates to a student's own life.
Create a digital story that documents the real life implications of an issue raised in the book by gathering research and evidence.
*Create a digital story that expresses the major themes from the book in abstract or metaphorical ways.
Create a digital story that rewrites the final chapter of the book.
Create a digital story that tells a chapter (or the book) from another character's point of view.
Create a digital story that explores an issue from the book as it relates to a student's own life.
Create a digital story that documents the real life implications of an issue raised in the book by gathering research and evidence.
*Create a digital story that expresses the major themes from the book in abstract or metaphorical ways.