Digital+Story+Assignment


 * ====__**Digital Storytelling Project**__ ====

====**Due:** Wednesday April 27th ====

====Digital Storytelling is an area of storytelling that is growing in popularity as a way to be creative, share and reflect on experiences, and convey social messages, among many other things. Digital stories are usually a mixture of images, text, sounds, and voiceover. ====

====For this assignment we would like you to tell a bit of your teacher identity story. Specifically you will trace a change in at least one aspect of your teacher identity and present that in a digital story format. Teacher identity is, broadly speaking, about your self-conceptions of what it is to live, act as, and be, a teacher. ====

====Some suggested steps before beginning to script, create, and share, your digital story: ====

====First, layout for yourself what it means to you to live, act as, and be, a teacher, at this point. ====

====Reflect on the development of your own teacher identity, particularly over your senior year (though you can also consider looking further back in time). Look at your racial/cultural autobiographies, philosophies of teaching, fieldwork experiences & reflections, other coursework, as sources to articulate your current conception of yourself as a teacher. ====

====Consider how your conceptions of being a teacher have changed over the year(s). ====

====Since we have a limited amount of time for this project, select one aspect of your teacher identity that has gone through some amount of change over this year (or 2+ years). Think about specific experiences that affected this change. This is the story you will be responsible for telling digitally. ====

====Two good examples of digital stories, and how to create them, are available here: ====


 * ====[|http://www.digitales.us/index.php] ====
 * ====[|http://www.storycenter.org] ====

==== Like the PSAs your digital story should be a process. The digitales website has a seven step process to do this at [] . ====

====The story can be worked on through software that you feel comfortable with, ones that you wish to explore further, or both. ====

====<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">The length of your story should, at minimum, be enough for you to share a bit of your earlier conception (ex. during my junior year I thought instruction was about the teacher telling kids information), the experiences and/or course work that affected this conception (ex. an experience in student teaching; my child connection project, etc pushed me to rethink instruction because...), and your conception today (ex. now, as I am graduating, I think instruction is about showing students how to make meaning of information for themselves). ====

====<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Please submit your piece on April 27th on the digital story wiki page: <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000099; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline;">http://definingculture-at-nyu.wikispaces.com/Our+Digital+Stories ====

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 * ==**Some readings and resources for Digital Storytelling. Assignment description soon to follow**==

Assignment due April 27th

Readings:
 * Hathorn, P. 2005. “Using Digital Storytelling as a Literacy Tool for the Inner City Middle School Youth.” //The Charter Schools Resource Journal//, Vol. 1 No. 1 Winter 2005 - [|http://www.ehhs.cmich.edu/~tcsrj/phathorn.pdf]
 * Serriere, S.C. (2010). “Carpet Time Democracy; Digital Photography and Social Consciousness in the Earl Childhood Classroom.” In //The Social Studies//. 101, p. 60 – 68. [[file:Serriere.S.C.DigitalPhotosECE.pdf]]

Resources
 * Center for Digital Storytelling (CDS), ([|http://www.storycenter.org]/)
 * Digitales<span class="wiki_link_ext">, ([])
 * Some simple examples and a seven step process for creating a digitale ||