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Please follow the link to Hunter's RILS on Educator Studio.
http://www.educatorstudio.com/lessons/polleverywherecom-please-give-students-voice#comment-168


Please follow the link to Sahpreem's RILS on Educator Studio.
http://www.educatorstudio.com/lessons/relevant-and-innovative-learning-scenario-rils-using-storyjumper

Final Project-RILS

http://www.viddler.com/explore/urbanvillage/videos/6

Relevant and Innovative Learning Scenarios Planning

Brief Overview:

I will demonstrate to early childhood education teachers how to create a multimedia story through the web 2.0 tool, Little Bird Tales. Little Bird Tales allows users to create a tale by recording audio and uploading images or creating artwork. I will also facilitate a discussion about strategies to use to implement multimedia stories into the early childhood environment.

Target Audience:  Early childhood education teachers

Materials:

Facilitator: computer, sample child’s artwork, lesson ideas

Learners/Teachers: artwork, computer, one-minute story or poem

Objectives:

At the end of this scenario the learner will be able to:

·      Create a Little Bird tales account

·      Design a multimedia story

·      Share their story via email with others  

·      Develop two lesson plan ideas that incorporate Little Bird Tales

Procedure

1. Learners will discuss the benefits of allowing children to express themselves through words and pictures.

2. Learners will create an account with Little Bird Tales.

3. Teachers will create a new cover tale by either uploading an image/file or drawing a cover directly onto the Little Bird Tales website.

4. Next, teachers will record a one-minute poem/story to accompany their image, art, etc.…

5. Then learners will title the tale and type in the author.

6. Learners can add several pages by continuing to create images or uploads files and audio.

7. Learners will view their stories and share them via email.

8. Finally, teachers will create several lesson plan ideas

Web 2. 0 Tool: Little Bird Tales

Social Participation/Social learning: Learners will brainstorm and develop two lesson plan ideas that will incorporate Little Bird Tales.

Making Connections:

Previous knowledge in order to create new knowledge. 

Many early childhood education teachers know how important it is for students to not create art, but also talk about it and share it. Participants will be able to use the features in Little Bird Tales to help students either create their art online and/or share their art. They will also be able to record themselves talking about their art.

Something that is relevant for them (the target audience). With the advancement of technology, early childhood educators are always looking for ways to implement technology in the classroom.

With a local or global audience. Little Bird Tales is an excellent tool for educators and children to share their work with parents, peers, and other early childhood education professionals.

Create/produce- Learners will a multimedia a story or poem with audio and artwork.

Assessment- The following rubric will access if the learners have met the objectives.

Category	3 pts	2 pts	1 pt
Images	All images/artwork relates to the story/poem	Some images/artwork relates to the story/poem.	No of the images/artwork relate to the story or poem.
Title/Author	The story includes a title/author	The story includes a title or author.	The story does not have a title or author.
Story/poem	All of the content of the story /poem is appropriate for 2-5 year olds. The story/poem is one minute.	The content of the story/poem has some content appropriate for 2-5 year olds. The story/poem is under one minute.	The content of the story/poem was not appropriate for 2-5 year olds. No story audio was recorded.
Sharing	The story was emailed to at least 2 early learning teachers.	The story was emailed to 1 early learning teacher.	The Story was not shared.
Lesson plans	Two lesson plan ideas were created.	One lesson plan idea was generated.	No lesson plan ideas were generated.

Reflection-

Learners will write a brief summary about their experience creating the multimedia story. They will also include a few details about how they plan to implement their stories into the learning environment.

In efforts to reflect on my training, I will have participants complete an evaluation form after the session.

PE5_Little Bird Tales

So as I was creating the Letters Body project on Little Bird Tales, I realized I had to create a few pages because I couldn't find the pages after I created them. SAVE, SAVE, SAVE, SAVE! So I realized I needed to save each page after creating it. It seems obvious, but it's not a Word doc. I thought the page, by page creation process automatically saved each page. If you look on the right side of this screen shot you'll see that it shows each page that I saved. I also realized I could click on the images in the right and edit the page. In addition, I can rerecord the audio for any page. 

It's a good thing that this happened before I demonstrated Little Bird Tales with my target group for my scenario. I will demonstrate to early childhood education teachers how to create a multimedia story through the web 2.0 tool, Little Bird Tales.  I will also facilitate a discussion about strategies to use to implement multimedia stories into the early childhood environment. Learners will brainstorm and develop two lesson plan ideas that will incorporate Little Bird Tales. 

As I was exploring Little Bird Tales, I thought of the following lesson plan ideas. Teachers can create class slideshows of student’s work. For example teachers can create a slideshow of one student’s work or a slide show of several students work based on a theme. This is an excellent way to share students’ work with parents. Another lesson idea is to have preschoolers take pictures of shapes, colors, numbers, letters and/or words in their environment. They can then talk about their findings in a Little Bird Tales Slide show. This is a great tool for teaching, reinforcing and sharing concepts and student’s work.

PE4_Little Birds Tales

So I enjoyed really exploring the features on Little Bird Tales. When I created my initial post, I simply created a simple drawing and voice over. During today's exploration, I began thinking about actual methods to integrate Little Birds Tales into the classroom.  When researching Web 2.0 tools, I either search from the perspective of a mom, storyteller, Early Childhood Educational Director, or educational professional development trainer.

As a mom of 5 years olds,  I automatically thought of ways the tools could be useful in the early learning environment. Below are examples of simple projects I created for little people learning their alphabet.

For this project, teachers can simply use the draw feature on the site to type in letters, words or create their own images. Teachers and parents can change the font color  and style and background. 

Another option I explored today is the upload feature. This feature allows users to import an image and tell a story and share a concept with a voice over.  

Finally, I shared the projects I created using the share option.

While, I plan to continue to explore the fun features of Little Bird Tales, I feel pretty confident in sharing it's features and uses with educators. When I share Little Bird Tales with Early Learning teachers I will ensure that they use both options. I'll have then upload images and create images and/or words via the draw feature. 

I'll be using Little Bird Tales in my Relevant and Innovative Learning Scenario with preschool teachers. I chose Little Bird Tales because it really doesn't require any special training or technology expertise. Preschool teachers are extremely busy during the day and exhausted by the end of the day. It was important to choose a tool that was simple and only required a few steps. 

BP7_Little Bird Tales one minute video

Little Bird Tales

http://www.viddler.com/explore/urbanvillage/videos/5/

BP4_Slide.com

Slide.com is a simple way to create photo stories. Slide. com lets you use your own photos  and digital media to create and publish a story.  Slide is a user-friendly tool that allows even amateur web users to upload photos and create a project. This free web 2.0 software, also allows users to share their video’s easy with Facebook and other social media sites. Users can also add images from Search, Facebook, Friendster, MySpace, Slide, Flickr and Internet Explorer’s image url.  In addition, to adding images you can even customize your slide show design.

The process of creating a slide show is simple. First you select a design, next you add images from one of above image sources, then you add text and customize your design. Finally, you can share your project with friends, family, colleagues and classmates.

Slide is a great tool to use for digital storytelling in any learning environment and at home. In the classroom teachers can use the features of slide.com to allow students to create a photo journal, photo story, or/and visual story through pictures. Slide can be incorporated into different lessons. For example students can upload photos they’ve taken, or upload their illustrations. They can also create a mother’s day or father’s day virtual card via slide.

In addition, to this Slide is a great tool; I can share with educators as they learn ways to integrate technology into the classroom.

I enjoyed creating my family photo project, which literary only took me 5 – 10 minutes to create.

BP6_Ana's blog

Here's the link to the comment I made on Ana's blog.

http://thoughtsofthetechlady.blogspot.com/2011/09/pe3imovie.html#comment-form