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Create your first digital story: a 321 Introduction

The purpose of this first digital story is to let us know more about you. 

1st. Choose any of the digital storytelling tools in the Sandbox to create your story or visit the ICT Support Area to find those tools.

2nd. With this digital ...

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 Welcome to our first weekly mission. This time it is a three-day proposal to get your students excited about the subject being taught with an engaging welcome story. These stories help teachers establish connections with their learners. They also leave a positive impression on learners.

To ...

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 One way to keep learners safe online is to have them create avatars, or digital representations of themselves. Avatars help keep students' identities safe.

In this forum, you will create an avatar and introduce the avatar to the group.

Follow these instructions:

1st Choose one of the ...

Let's go for our second 3-day mission. Let's create a comic book that helps learners to understand content, because they can visualize and contextualize the content. For this task, you will take a chapter or section from your coursebook or curriculum and transform the material into a comic book. ...

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 Students have numerous options for creating movies and short video clips. Many free digital web tools, software, and apps allow students to edit movies and add special effects, filters, music, captions, credits, and more. The video editing process helps learners critically inspect their ...

 Let's go for the third 3-day weekly mission of the course and create a video tutorial!

We have worked with various digital storytelling web tools and apps to create different types of stories. Some of these tools may have challenged us more than others. When a tool challenges us we can learn ...

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 Creating a digital story with a class in another location, city, state, or country is very empowering for students. They get to practice organization skills online and see how it differs from face-to-face team work. The process also introduces learners to new cultures. 

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 This is mission 4, a 3-day oral collaborative challenge to foster speaking skills!

Voicethread is one of the best free collaborative tools and IOS apps for teachers. This tool allows educators to create accounts for students without e-mail and offers a choice of avatars. Teachers can upload ima...

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 This is our last 3-day weekly mission. Ready?

One type of film we can create on our mobile devices that requires no Internet connection is a silent film. In a silent film, the audience does not hear what happens or what the characters are saying. Instead, each scene will consist of actors ...

Mobile devices have many features that work without Internet access. These features include the camera tool which allows students to take pictures and in many cases edit the pictures. Students can also record videos and audio.

For this task, create a story with your mobile device using one of ...

 Teachers can use story creation tools to begin a story that learners will complete. These story starters are prompts, or topic starters, our learners can create stories around. Writing prompts are a useful teaching tool when beginning to implement digital storytelling activities. Prompts can be ...

Teachers can use story creation tools to tackle tough issues, such as cyberbullying. When our students communicate and share digital content online, they are open to comments and criticisms from others. Sometimes, groups of peers may verbally attack a student online or remix their work or images ...

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