Digital+Storytelling


 * Presenters:** Priscilla Kotyk & Lynda Nadolby

Enabling the Process

 * 1) Grant (BroadCom Grant[it is a technology compant] the grant has to be sponsored by a community member that works for BroadCom). The grant was for $5,000 and included tripods, cameras, and noise canceling headphones

Movies
**Weather Movie: Process**
 * Showed example from New Zealand
 * Looked at Weather Maps
 * Read Books for Ideas
 * Divided Class into Groups
 * Made Storyboards

“Fifteen Seconds of Fame” (students where given 15 seconds to present)


 * Weather Movie: Lessons Learned**
 * Students help one another
 * An extra pair of hands is needed
 * Someone puts the clips together
 * Time to do movie was worth it
 * The students loved it!


 * Cultural Sharing: Documenting Classroom Projects with Parents**
 * One student and his mother show the students how to draw Chinese characters
 * Another student and her parent show a dance from Slovakia etc.

At the end of the project – students were recorded reflecting on the project

•	Created figures in movement out of wire and then figures out of clay
 * People in Motion: Art Curriculum Unit with 6th Graders**