The Proposal Topic –
The proposed Digital Story ‘Becoming a DigiProducer’ will be a text designed to support the Year 5/6 students at the school in which I work to move through their digital movie making unit.
The resource will aim to scaffold teacher directions and encourage creativity and self-exploration. Students will receive a challenge brief by a ‘Movie Master’ to become a producer of their own movie. The digital story will support them to consider aspects of moviemaking and encourage further thought and idea provoking reading through strategically guided but self-directed exploration.
Proposed digital tools and/or spaces to be used –
- The story will be multi layered and presented on a website platform such as WordPress
- Research and Histories of Movie Making will take place through the use of Prezi
- Collaborative tools such as Answer Garden and Cloud Based Collaborative Documents will be used for brainstorming
- Task checklist will be through Thinglink
- Audio/Animations for guidance and engagement will take place through Powtoon Videos
- Youtube for embedded videos for potential tutorials and guides
- Adobe Spark will be the platform that the text will suggest for video creation for students
Rationale –
Working in a primary school setting as a Digital Technologies Leading Teacher, my role is to assist and scaffold classroom teachers to deliver digital technologies curriculum in order to compliment core curriculum subjects in a forward thinking and engaging manner.
Through INF533 readings and course content, it has become evident to me that digital storytelling provides students with the development of skills necessary to be effective in the 21st Century (Malita 2010). The very idea that texts and books have grown and developed into an ever changing digital format, challenges what we do, what we have always done and how we should move forward as practitioners in a primary school setting.
The digital story I am proposing is intended to provide necessary scaffolding for an otherwise daunting unit of work for less digital native teachers. My vision is that students can make their way through the story that interacts with them and sets them small challenges and tasks (using a multimodal approach) that they need to complete, while learning about the necessary aspects to consider when creating a movie.
Each of the set tasks will utilise other digital platforms that the students have been exposed to in prior digital technologies curriculum at the school. The story tasks will address the digital technologies movie making learning outcomes in the Victorian Curriculum.
The Australian Centre for the Moving Image (ACMI) notes that “people are using media to tell their own stories” and by providing students with the opportunity to actively read and engage in their learning, and then apply their knew knowledge will hopefully be the ‘hook’ that good literature provides, in order for them to successfully reach learning outcomes in a up to date and engaging manner.
References –
ACMI (Australian Centre for the Moving Image) accessed September 2020 https://www.acmi.net.au/ideas/
Malita, L., & Martin, C. (2010). Digital Storytelling as web passport to success in the 21st Century. Procedia-Social and Behavioral Sciences, 2(2), 3060-3064. http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1877042810005057