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Digital Storytelling

If you are interested in motivating your students to write in an innovative, creative, engaging and tech savvy  way, my classmate Chrissia Haughton created a Relevant and Innovative Learning Scenario (RILS) that demonstrates how to introduce ComicLife in primary grades, K-2 , in a fun, unique  and comical kind of way!

Visit Educator Studio to see how Chrissia Haughton

• Introduces the software ComicLife to teachers and students
• Creates a unique storyboard about penguins using students very own pictures
• Receives comments about what I and others thought about her innovative lesson that is adaptable for any classroom in so many ways

Here is the link, just click and read your way to making your own comic today!

http://educatorstudio.com/lessons/lets-make-comic

While you are at Educator Studio, you might as well check out another fun lesson on using emergent technology for digital storytelling in the primary grade classroom.

Read another classmates RILS that shares an additional tech savvy way 1st grade teachers can teach sequencing and retelling  using a  cool  emergent tool found at  www.storyjumper.com  . See how April Woosley takes a fundamental primary grade activity for assessment and  upgrades the old cut and paste version of ordering  parts of a story  in a tech savvy 21st century way.

Visit Educator Studio to see how April Woosley:

• Step’s up her authentic reading comprehension activities by going digital
• Uses Story Jumper to connect Digital Story Sequencing purposefully within students everyday life
• Foster’s collaboration and communication in the classroom using digital story telling to retell their story in their creative  way.

Here is the link to April Woosley’s “tech savvy” lesson. Send her a comment and let her know what you a think!

http://educatorstudio.com/lessons/clever-1st-grader-who-swallowed-story

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Wix  

Wix is a free web tool for creating easy, fast, and customizable websites for showcasing your classroom in action and fostering communication with parents, providing a service for your business, or  just for showcasing a gallery of your favorite personal pics. This web tool allows users to publish their own professional looking website with no html coding skills need.

Features

• Its completely FREE to design and publish your own website
• Easy click and drop HTML editor
• No coding or HTML expertise needed
• Free  web hosting
• Create FREE Flash and HTML 5 Websites
• Upload your own images
• Choose from 100’s of free content such as  widgets, music, pics, galleries and more
• Customize your site from scratch or a template
• View FREE demo videos or join Live Webinars
• Get found easily on Google with free and easy to create Search Engine Optimization (SEO) options
• Go Mobile by creating a FREE mobile version of your website
• Add a Blog
• Create Facebook templates to connect with others in your social network

My Story and My Motivation For Using This Tool

I love photography and have been wanting to create a personal website to start a digital photo journal and scrapbook of all my favorite pictures. Its  easier than I expected and is a tool I am motivated in using while implementing my action research project on integrating digital photography in the classroom to enhance the overall process of learning in an educational environment.

View My Sample Published Website and Customized Creation

Click on the link below to view my  personal Photography website I created at www.wix.com to start hosting a gallery of my pictures I have passionately taken by capturing the beauty of nature in my own community and special moments with my family.

http://cwilson2912.wix.com/christinawilson