I was so excited to catch my third 12 word story displayed on the 12Words homepage! All stories appear there briefly, I think, but I never saw my first two go up. Thought this one would be especially good to share, as I think it’s something with which many teacher-types will identify with – if [...]
Posts Tagged ‘narrative’
13 Aug
12Words: kmcg2375
Using the same username as I do on Twitter, I have been posting my own ‘12 word stories’ to the 12Words website, which was launched at the start of the month.
The objective is to use 12 words or less to “tell a story, convey a mood, or give a glimpse at a person”. You can [...]
30 Jul
Video Games and Storytelling
Came across this excellent animated lecture by Daniel Floyd on Jawbone.tv. Perfect for an introduction to narrative in videogames for my Year 9 class. I think I’ll make a listening task for it – will post it up if I do.
19 May
Narrative Unit: Texts
An update on how things are coming together for my unit of work on Narrative, which combined more mainstream print and visual texts with ‘new technology’ texts.
The texts I have selected to study are:
The Raven – Edgar Allen Poe (poem)
And antoher thing – Anthony Dennis (Sunday Life opinion article)
The Curious Incident of the Dog in [...]
27 Mar
Narrative and technology project
The lesson sequence that I am working on for the New Technologies, New Stories project will see students working toward a Digital Storytelling assessment to explore ideas about what makes a good story. In particular they will be focussing on how images and audio elements can be combined to enhance meaning in narrative.
The Lessons:
Aimed at [...]
24 Mar
New Technologies, New Stories
I am feeling very invigorated after today’s briefing meeting for the New Technologies, New Stories project that is being run by the English folks over at the DET Curriculum Directorate.
And why wouldn’t I? The focus of the project is the development of teaching resources and lesson sequences to support the integration of ICT into English [...]
23 Aug
David Griffin on how photography connects us | Video on TED.com
Another TEDtalk that I’ll be using in my Year 9 unit on digital storytelling.
The photo director for National Geographic, David Griffin knows the power of photography to connect us to our world. In a talk filled with glorious images, he talks about how we all use photos to tell our stories.
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