Digital Story Telling Lesson
Day 1:
• At the end
of the class teacher elicits some travel language.
Teacher:
(Teacher asks students where they went on vacation.) Did any body go
to America? How about Hokkaido? Did anyone go to Spain?”
• Today we
will work on a power point presentation about a trip we took.
(Teacher
demonstrates a power point presentation on his trip to Thailand.
1-3 minutes
long. The teacher shows photos of the trip with captions at the
bottom.)
Teacher: “I
went to Thailand last year. (Photo of the country) I first went to
Bangkok (Photo of BKK). I met my friend Jeff he lives in Bangkok.
(Photo of Jeff) We went to see some temples and buddhist statues.
(Photos of buddhist temples/statues.) This one is the the Golden
Buddha. (Photo of Golden Buddha.) It's the largest in Thailand! Then
we went to Ko Chang island. (Picture of the beach). This was our
hotel. (Picture of a hotel.) It was my first time scuba diving.
(Scuba diving picture) My favorite part about Thailand is that you
can buy fresh fruit and coconuts on the street. (Picture of the fruit
stand). I can't wait to go back to Thailand. (End with a photo of
Thailand beach.)
• Teacher:
“Next time bring your computer and some photos of a place you
travelled to. Make sure you have power point on your computer.”
Day 2
• Intro: “Good
morning how are you today?”
• Teacher:
“Did you bring you laptops? If anyone forgot you can you mine.”
“Take out you
laptops. (Teacher pulls up power point on the screen.) And search for
the images you would like to use. Place your images on power point.
(Teacher demonstrates placing images in power point). ”
• Teacher:
“When you are finished. Pair up with a partner. And start to work
on your sentences for your project.” (Teacher goes around the room
to help students with any technical or language problems). “Ask
your partner to look at your sentences and help correct them.”
• Teacher:
“When you're finished tell the teacher and I will check your work.”
(If some
students are finished and their work is checked then they can
practice their presentations.)
Teacher:
“Practice your presentations with your partner, if you are
finished.”
• Teacher:
“Next time you can bring your project on a jump drive or bring your
computer. If everyone is finished next class we will start our
presentations.”
Day 3
• Intro: “Good
morning how are you today?”
• Teacher:
“Let's take out your lap tops and open your projects and get in
your groups.” “Does anyone need any help?” “If you don't need
help, then you can rehearse your presentation.”
(Teacher helps
students that need help.)
(Teacher gives
the students one single jump drive so they can all put their projects
on it.)
• Teacher:
“Ok. Let's start the presentations.”
(Start
presentations. Might need to finish next class depending on how many
students are in the class and how much help they need.)
1.
Who are your learners and what is the skill you are focusing on for
this lesson?
Japanese
students at university or college/community college. Lower/mid level
most have had some English classes in Junior/High school. Some have
had a little more tutoring outside of class at language cafes and the
more advanced students have been abroad.
2.How
will this resource enhance your language lesson?
The
idea of digital story telling using photos and power point appeals to
me. I hope by allowing them to create a power point presentation
they will have more fun in class. Also I like the idea of pairing
students up in groups to help edit each others captions. I think
showcasing personal photos of trips to other places will help the
students confidence in class and it would help us get to know each
other better. Most people enjoy travel and like talking about their
experiences of traveling.
3.What
directions handouts (or verbal directions) will you need to create?
I
will need to explain that they need a laptop and they need to bring
old photos and/or find photos on the internet of the place they went.
(I
didn't give a hand out, but maybe I should give one explaining the
directions in English and Japanese and that they will need to have a
laptop or let the teacher know they don't have one.)
4.What
tech support will you have or will you need to provide students?
I'm
was planning to hook up each students laptop to the screen and do the
presentations from there but then I thought that would take a long
time. Having one single jump drive with all the projects on them
would be easier. Then the teacher could just pull up each project for
each student.
5.What
are the potential problems, either language based or technical, that
you may
need
to troubleshoot or prepare for?
If
the students put all their projects on one jump drive they need to
include all the photos as well. Making sure the students create one
folder with the power point file and the photos used in the file on
their computer should be address during the time teacher checks there
projects.
I'm
a bit worried about the time it will take to check each students
projects, because I've never done this kind of project before I
should plan for 4 days just in case. Of course I would take into
consideration the number of students for each class.
If
I wanted to make it a little more difficult I could have the students
do this same project using imovie (I know how to use imovie pretty
well). They could up load the photos in imovie and narrate it along
with the photos. The downside to this is not all students know how
to use imovie. That's why I chose to use power point because its much
more ready available. I hope to do a project
like this with my students one day!
