Digital story Rough Draft

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Note Card Confession

Below are the three quotes that inspired my note card confession.

" As much as some educators might like to think of themselves as transmitters of the official culture, we now must help students become active, critical interpreters of contemporary culture, helping them grasp the multiple realities and diverse forms of knowledge and experience that are circulating in this dense and ever-changing stew." ( Digital and Media Literacy pg.29)

" Students had opinions about the variety of sentences that their peers had written on their sticky notes." ( Digital and Media Literacy pg 31.)

" Listening and asking questions are the most important practices that activate critical thinking in the high school classroom." (Digital and Media Literacy  pg 33.)

Addressing the Seven Elements of Digital Storytelling

Point of View: I will be telling my story from first person perspective.
Dramatic Question: My cousin taught me to fight.
Emotional Content: The emotional content of my digital story is the loss of my cousin to cancer at a young age.
Soundtrack: I'm not sure what music I will choose for my story yet but I'm sure it will go well with the story I am telling.
Economy: There will be very few words if any at all written on my story.
Pacing: I have my story to the pacing I want.

Brainstorming my Digital Story

1.  A positive scene from my childhood was when I would get off of the school bus and my great grandma would be waiting on my sister and I. She would walk us up the hill to her house where she would have fresh baked chocolate chip cookies. We always spent our evenings with her. While she would make supper we would play barbies and school after we would eat our cookie/ice cream sandwiches. This event (though it isn't detailed) is very important to me because my great grandma is not able to cook and the old times were the best.

2. A negative scene from my childhood was when my step mother came to my great grandmas to pick my sister and I up to go to my dads. My dad is a truck driver so his hours are different daily and that day he was working and couldn't come get us. I remember she pulled into the drive way and came up to the door. My sister didn't mind going but I on the other hand hated going when my dad wasn't around. I cried and cried because I didn't want to go with her. My great grandma told her that if I didn't want to go I didn't have to. My stepmothers reply was that Rob was my dad and I had to go. By the end of the story I can say I was safely at my great grandmas. I thought this was a negative scene because throughout my whole childhood I was easily homesick when I was away from my grandma.

3.A memory from my teen-aged year was my very first cheerleading competition. I remember practicing for hours everyday after school between the months of August and November. It was competition day and we were all in the car ready to go. When we got to the school, we had help taking out our curlers. Then it was time for the practice time. Boy was I nervous. I did very well at this time it was like being in the gym at school. A few minutes later it was show time. I was so nervous that I forgot some of the routine and had to copy the girls in front of me. I was glad when it was over. It was a great first experience and I continued to cheer throughout my entire time in high school.

4.The most important memory that is in my mind today is my cousin Brian. Brian was my aunt and uncles son. He was a mail man and lived in New Jersey. Just a couple years ago he was diagnosed with leukemia. Throughout the years since being diagnosed he was at one time 100% cancer free but then it came back. After a year had passed he got remarried and they had a little girl. The last time I got to talk to him in person was the day of the baby shower. I had just gotten a new tattoo of the cancer ribbon to support him and he was so excited to see it. Last year in October his daughter turned one of the 9th and four days later he let go. We all miss him and I am sad that he left so soon but his life was well lived with the time he had on earth. This makes me know that we never know how long we have, so we need to live life to the fullest.

5. I feel that I answered this in number 4. The death of my cousin was a big turning point. Not just the death but when he was diagnosed it changed my life. I wanted to be healthier so that I could help him if I needed to. I became a bone morrow donator. Though I haven't been needed to donate I was ready when I was needed. I feel that it has made me change my attitude toward my family and the way I think about things. Family is so important to me and I never know how long I will have with each one of them.

Love/Hate Relationship Reflection on Visual Media

My love/hate relationship with visual media is different than the others. I love taking pictures which makes me love looking at pictures to read into the story. A picture can say 1000 words that no one can say. I love being able to visualize what is going on because I am a visual learner. There are so many things that a picture can do to be a visual media. Pictures are everywhere in your everyday life so the are important.

As for the hate part of the visual media is that sometimes it is hard to read into the picture. Also, pictures fade and sometimes they last forever while other times they don't. All the ads that are out there today use pictures to capture their attended audience. This can be bad because then the audience wants  what is on that ad.

Reflecting on our Love/Hate Relationship with Media

Reading through all the four padlets, I could see that my peers and I think of media in a similar sense.
On the print media padlet I found it interesting that someone liked the feel of the book. When I read a book I don't really think about how it feels. I found this very interesting. Most of us have the same feeling about newspapers, they are not in our love relationship. 

As for visual media, there are many examples in the world. The one thing that I took from this is that the visual media is great for visual learners. I learn better when I am seeing what is being taught. I thought that all the ideas that were said in the sound media padlet was very interesting. The different things that are recognized as sound media made me think. I never knew there were so many examples out there.

Throughout all the padlets the love/hate relationships of each peer were very similar. There are things that we can learn about them by reading through their responses.

Third Week : Activity # 3 Strength and Weeknesses of former Students

Vanessa Clay:
She has a great emotional content. A lot of people can connect with her story based on who she was talking about. Her grandmother; baking, her grandfather and then relating them to herself.
I thought this digital story was very good. I was able to relate to it. At the beginning of the story, I couldn't find the point of view but as I watched I seen that it was multi-dimensional.

Jared St. Brown:
With this digital story, I could not connect with the author. This story was well written and illustrated. I like how he used how they were different and made it into one story.

Amber Haller:
Her strength was keeping the viewer engaged. Having to read the next part of the story allowed the viewer to connect with her and also want to read what is next. I didn't feel there was a dramatic question in this digital story.

Life at a Funeral - a digital story by Siera Wilson

Point of view:  The point of view in this digital story is to show the connection she has with changing her ways to be healthy. The voice you hear in this story is the authors.

Dramatic Question: Did she change her ways? Was she able to help her family change their ways?

Emotional Content: The emotional content in this digital story is the changes she made to become healthy and not die due to diabetes, obesity and other diseases. I relate to this because my granddad has diabetes and has had to change what he eats to stay healthy.

Reading helps the teacher and students communicate. While reading this article they became off subject but the teacher discussed the subject the children brought up. When you are teaching a lesson like this you have to be prepared to become off subject and to answer different question not completely based on what you had planed. Also, this allows the learners and teachers to use past experiences to talk more in depth rather then just staying on the subject and having a limited discussion.