Developing+Interactive+Learning+Activities+with+Texts

[|The Power of Storytelling: Chimamanda Adichie]

[|Stories Convey Culture] (:13-1:25) media type="custom" key="18973054"

Tell a partner about some of the cultural products, practices, and perspectives that are embedded in (or missing from) the activities and culturally authentic materials you use in your classroom.

[|Stories Create Expectations] (1:05-2:06) media type="custom" key="18972560"

Tell a partner about a story that created expectations for you.

Single Stories Eliminate Possibilities

Tell a partner about a time when someone else interpreted you through the framework of a single story

[|Stories Describe, Define, & Empower People] (9:29-10:50) media type="custom" key="18972622"

Tell a partner about a time when someone started the story of a group of people you know "in the wrong place"

[|Stories Convey Stereotypes & Shape Identity] (12:57-13:25) media type="custom" key="18972632"

Give your partner a list of three bullet points that encapsulate the stories that have been most important in forming who you are and how you experience the world. OR Tell about a time when someone "flattened your experience" by viewing or interpreting you through the lens of a stereotype.

[|We Must Tell Multiple Stories in Order for Them to Be Complete] (13:54-14:09) media type="custom" key="18972640"

Tell a partner some ways you achieve "a balance of stories" when discussing different cultures in your classroom.

= Key Concepts & Principles =


 * Story is a powerful framework for organizing and sharing information and experiences
 * Good stories have rich layers of meaning . ..
 * Good stories reframe our perspectives
 * Good stories move and motivate us--transforming us
 * Stories reduce cognitive load
 * Representing conceptual content assists students in internalizing it
 * Producing stories = creativity, critical thinking, and self-expression

=Story Strategies=


 * Circle Stories
 * Clone Stories
 * Describe & Draw
 * Flannel Panels
 * Flipbooks
 * Foldables
 * Fractured Fairy Tales
 * Graphic Prompts
 * Jigsaw
 * [|Microstories]
 * Phraselets (Richard Ladd)
 * [|Pictograms]
 * Pop-up Books
 * Signature Search
 * Skit Sacks
 * Smoosh Books
 * Story Squares
 * Story Starters
 * Tech-infused Options: (Audacity, cell phones, pocket video cameras)
 * Twitter Fiction

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=Examples=



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1) Select photo or right click and save this one:  2) Crop photo. 3) Place mouth. 4) Record voice:

5) Use PREVIEW to share with a partner (you have to register first to save it).
 * My name is . ..
 * One interesting thing that happened at school this year is . ..



- [|Spanish Project]









- MFL Storybirds en Español
 * [|Fotos del espacio] - Slideshow of photos of black holes, supernovas, etc., labeled in Spanish
 * [|¿Vida o sida?] - Slideshow about AIDS in Spanish (note, some images may not be suitable for classroom use
 * [|Y ahora . . . qué?] - Slideshow about aging in Spanish









=Closure= [|Stories Matter] (17:36-17:55)

In what ways have stories mattered to you in your life?

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[|Single Stories Oversimplify] (18:18-18:31)

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How might you use digital storytelling in your classroom to "regain a kind of paradise?"

=Resources= - Inexpensive place to order children's books in Spanish

-- One of a series of three books filled with reproducible blackline masters of humorous, wordless stories told through cartoons. Great for practicing narration in any language

- Book filled with patterns for different types of cross-curricular foldables, pop-ups, and other projects