Welcome to Week 4 of Digital Storytelling with Young Learners!
This week we are looking at the benefits of collaborative projects with our learners. We will consider different types of collaboration and try out some tools which are ideal for getting learners to work together.
On this page you can post your answers to the following discussion questions:
Task 1:
1. What are collaborative stories? Have you ever created one with your learners? In what way was it collaborative?
2. What are the benefits of asking our students to collaborate? What skills can they learn?
3. How would you organise a collaborative project on a larger scale, with learners from other classes, schools or countries?
Task 2:
Explain how you would use VoiceThread to make collaborative stories in your class.
Task 3:
1. Discuss the pros and cons of using a wiki for collaborative written stories.
2. Discuss how teachers can make use of the comments section to guide and moderate.
3. Exchange ideas for storytelling activities with other collaborative writing tools and the pros and cons of using them.
4. Say how you think teachers can extend lessons based on the completed stories.
We would ask you to leave your ideas in the comments section below, and respond to comments made by other participants. Please mark your comment Task 1, 2 or 3 so that we can later organise these posts more easily.
All projects should be emailed to Posterous at digitalstorytellingevo2013@posterous.com, as in previous weeks.