A presentation about digital storytelling with Middle School students

1. Mapping Me
Honoring Diversity, Promoting Understanding
Through Digital Stories

2. Reflect on this…
• “Traditionally, teachers have modeled
perfection and students have struggled to
meet those standards. Today, as teachers
move toward individualized instruction and
cooperative learning, students struggle to
create and meet their own standards of
excellence, teachers are learning to model
the struggle.” Lane 1992

3. Student Demographics

4. Welcome to CVMS!
Expect More, Achieve More!

5. Classroom Instruction Looks
Like This

6. Our Digital Journey

7. The San Diego Area Writing
Project/ NWP

8. National Day On Writing

9. Digital Work Is Not Just
Production
• The idea that incorporating digital writing
into only the publishing phase of a project
is to me, archaic. The idea of going to the
computer lab to type up your final copy is
not digital writing.
• What is true for today, is that students hold
the world in the palm of their hand, and we
need to teach them how to navigate it in
entirely new ways.

10. A Glimpse Into the Standards
• 7th and 8th Grade CCSS Writing Standards
• 6.Use technology, including the Internet, to produce and
publish writing and link to and cite sources as well as to
interact and collaborate with others, Including linking to
and citing sources.
• 8. Gather relevant information form multiple print and
digital sources, using search terms effectively, assess
the credibility and accuracy of each source, and quote or
paraphrase the data and conclusions of others while
avoiding plagiarism and following a standard format for
citation

11. Writing Standards
• 7th and 8th Grade CCSS Writing Standards
• 2 Write informative/explanatory texts to examine a
topic and convey ideas, concepts, and information
through the selection, organization and analysis of
relevant content.
• 4.Produce clear and coherent writing in which the
development, organization, and style are appropriate
to task, purpose, and audience.
• 5.With some guidance and support from peers and
adults, develop and strengthen writing as needed by
planning, revising, editing, re-writing, or trying a new
approach, focusing on how well purpose and audience
have been addressed.

12. NETS Standards for Lesson
• 5. Digital Citizenship
• Students understand human, cultural, and societal issues
related to
• technology and practice legal and ethical behavior. Students:
• a. Advocate safe. Legal, and responsible use of information
and technology.
• b. Exhibit a positive attitude toward using technology that
supports
• collaboration, learning, and productivity.
• c. Demonstrate personal responsibility for lifelong learning.
• d. Exhibit leadership for digital citizenship.

13. Standards for the Lesson
• NETS for Students
• 2. Communications and Collaboration
• Students use digital media and environments to
communicate and work
• collaboratively, including at a distance, to support
individual learning and
• Contribute to the learning of others. a. Interact,
collaborate, and publish
• with peers, experts, or others employing a variety
of digital environments
• and media

14. Creating Identity

15. My Life In Poetry

16. Our Life In a Sentence
• Adapted from Daniel
Pink, What’s your
sentence, our
students wrote
sentences that
defined them.
• http://www.danpink.co
m/2011/01/whatsyour-sentence-thevideo/

17. What Is Leadership Movie?

18. Mapping Me
• Students created a movie using the iMovie
app to share three important places that
have helped to shape who they are today.
• Students found photos, wrote and edited
scripts, and then produced their work.

19. Rotana’s Movie

20. Mustafa’s Movie

21. Taking Your Next Steps