Activities

Mayer's principle of active processing: Each group will create a concrete example of their own digital story as well as organize the story in each frame to share with others.

Multimedia Presentation: Power Point/Interactive Tutorial; I will include limited information on each slide that only highlight key points:

Gr﻿a﻿phic Organizers: Tree Map and a Circle Map- participants will complete one of the following graphic organizers: or a  to record notes from the presentation/what they have learned.

P﻿re-Training: Participants will need to get together with their team and create a brief story. They will also need to look at several examples of digital storytelling from the following website: [] The partipicant's story needs to relate to their content area. In the video provided, I gave a brief preview of our Fifth Grade Western Day at our school. Included in the Digital Story on Western Day, are pictures of things that frontier women and pioneers had to do in order to shuck corn to prepare it for a meal or turn it into cornmeal. Also, it introduces the term mechanization on the farm and how farmers first completed their work by hand then it became much easier/faster with the help of tools.

Materials Needed fo﻿r Workshop: Projector, computer lab, laptop, Internet connection, Movie Maker software (it is already installed on all computer in District Five).

Online applications: Itunes, Imovie

Collaboration: Participants will be grouped by grade level and department. For example: the fifth grade teachers that teacher SS/Writing will be group together, ELA fifth grade teachers, Math fifth grade teachers, and Science fifth grade teachers. I will group sixth grade together the same way. Then Performing and Related Arts teachers will be grouped together as well.