Under the Sea Productions, S & K

Our last part was the funnest because we decided that we wanted to make a movie. Unfortunately, the movie will not upload and I have been trying but it will not. However, we have our story board. When she decided that she wanted to make the movie, I was like "OK", how do you want to do it? Since we were doing fish, she decided that she wanted to have a Pets Mart theme in which she came in wanting to buy a fish and I was there to give her the information about each fish in order to help pick out the perfect one. It was a lot of fun and she looked over the tools for creating a movie. She understood everything until the upload portion and that's where she was done. When I was discussing digital storytelling to her she was very interested and told me that it makes learning a little bit more bearable than just reading from a book and was excited about the idea.
Before the production I could have definitely learned how to upload the movie on her computer because it would not work on hers or mine. Also, I could have definitely thought about how to get the information across to her in a way where the understood the first time. I assume that is something I will learn over time though.
Storyboard

Under The Sea Research, S & K

Throughout this process it was different having learned the information and trying to portray it to someone else. I had to think about how to word things many times because my student would look at me with a blank stare and knew I was not making sense. This excercise showed me that I need to think about how I word information presented to my future students. Ironically my student already new alot about what we were doing because she took web mastering in school that year, so quite a bit of the information was old news to her.
I showed her many of the tools we had learned in class, told her look through them, find the ones she liked, and think of ways to use them for projects or research purposes. From what I noticed she found one good search engine that gave her all of the information she needed and she started looking at movie maker to think about movie possibilities.
Our work cited

Stephanie and Kristin, Under the Sea

My student was Kristin and this is her blog.
With this student, I had her think about her favorite subject to learn about. School is out and it is summer time, so I asked her what she learned last year that was very interesting to her. When Kristin's answer to my question was science, I was extremely happy because I know a lot about science. The next step was to find out what she found intriguing and she said fish in the ocean. She had to research this subject while in school, so she enjoyed going into depth about the details she enjoyed most about certain fish. The whole time I wondered what she wanted to learn and what aspect of it throughout the whole process. Again I am a firm believer in choice of the student and that is why I wanted to know what she liked as opposed to something I would find interesting. Guiding without direct instruction.
Activity Plan