Week 5 Digital Story Telling

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!