I thought I had posted this and realized I hadn't.
Today we worked with only 6 students. Mainly because Mr. Jamie was kind to us and new the kids had had a long day and were a little wound up. I wanted to revisit the lesson from the week before because we had had such a great success with response from the kids. They were engaged and wanting to continue the lesson even when it was time to clean up. So with this lesson, instead of giving them a storyline they had to illustrate, we let them decide amongst their tables and pick a story they wanted to tell. One table chose "The Unlucky Leprechaun" and the other chose "The Hyena Astronauts that went to the moon". As before we asked that each person create one slide or picture to depict their part of the story. They were to decide who was going to have the first, second, and third part of the story. The kids took great pride in their work and wanted their images to really be successful. They helped each other out if they couldn't figure what to draw or what would better represent their part of the story.
They sped through this part of the exercise and with in a short amount of time wanted to create their presentation on Animoto. Because of our guidelines that we had set out for them, many of the students completed the tasks quickly. The decided on a back ground, as before and put a description with the picture to help better explain the storyline. They also picked out music to go along with the slide show. They did all of this on their own, John and I were watching in the background. They were able to formulate a storyline, compose a system for telling it and create a presentation. Many of these students were not the same ones that we had had the week before. This system wasn't flawless, the kids retraced many of their steps but they were able to figure out, on their iPads, how to make their story work. I know the kids reactions were parallel to mine, I was pretty excited about what they had accomplished.
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