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Groups (5)
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Classroom Instruction that Works
35 members,232 bookmarks
Specific teaching strategies have positive effects on student learning. Decades of research indicates which strategies make the biggest difference. Each of these strategies can be used by any teacher at any time.
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Classroom 2.0
438 members,949 bookmarks
A place for members of www.Classroom20.com to share links, Classroom 2.0 is social networking site devoted to those interested in the practical application of computer technology (especially Web 2.0) in the classroom and in their own professional development.
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MCPS Digital Storytelling
18 members,37 bookmarks
A list of resources to support the teaching and learning of digital storytelling in the K-12 classroom.
Bookmark History
Saved by 44 people (4 private), first by anonymouse user on 2006-09-13
- Msstern on 2008-09-28 - Tags digitalstorytelling , web_apps
- A_armstrong on 2008-09-13 - Tags digitalstorytelling , historian's craft , primarysources
- Polymathea on 2008-09-09 - Tags Videos , job
- Lancemosier on 2008-07-11 - Tags education , history , web2.0 , primarysources
- Ischool on 2008-07-07 - Tags digitalstorytelling , history , web2.0
Public Sticky notes
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The primaryAccess Initiative offers students and teachers the opportunity to use primary source documents to create digital movies (historical narratives) that provide a compelling and meaningful learning experience.
Historical Narratives
A historical narrative is a short digital movie that explores some facet of history. It is typically 1-3 minutes in length, contains a montage of images, text or movies accompanied by a narration done in the students own voice.
Since much of our history occurred before the invention of movies and television, many of the primary sources available are photographs, still images, and documents. With easy to use tools provided by primaryAccess, narrators can add motion to these otherwise static images (i.e. the "Ken Burns effect").
These narratives typically follow a story structure, with a beginning, middle, and end, providing an educational and entertaining experience for both creator and viewer alike.
The act of producing the narrative provides a strong active learning experience, in which the learner must research the topic, actively construct meaning from the primary documents available, craft a written story that conveys that understanding to others, and finally, create a movie that uses the documents to accompany the narration in a visually compelling manner.
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on 2008-02-02 by passandr