Multimedia+Project

= Digital Story =

PA State Standards:
School-Wide Area of Focus - SIS: Student Interpersonal Skills SIS.1: Develop self-awareness and self-management skills to achieve school and life success. SIS.1.A: Identify and manage one's emotions and behavior. SIS.1.C: Demonstrate skills related to achieving personal, civic and academic goals. SIS.3: Demonstrate decision-making skills and responsible behavior in individual, family, school, and community contexts. SIS.3.C: Contribute to the well-being of one's school and community.

National Education Technology Standards:
4. Critical Thinking, Problem Solving, and Decision Making Students use critical thinking skills to plan and conduct research, manage projects, solve problems, and make informed decisions using appropriate digital tools and resources. Students: a. identify and define authentic problems and significant questions for investigation. b. plan and manage activities to develop a solution or complete a project. d. use multiple processes and diverse perspectives to explore alternative solutions.

Implementation:
This project is a Digital Social Story for a student in my classroom who is afraid of fire drills. I created this story with the behaviors in mind that occur when we have a fire drill. I plan on using this digital story to help my student think about the behaviors that need to occur during a fire drill. I am hoping to easy the student's anxiety by having him/her watch the story prior to a drill. I also plan to replace some of the Internet images with digital pictures of my student's friends and the environment. I plan on having the student become involved with the creating of the images that will be included in the final outcome of this story. Also, students will be able to create multi-media stories of their own using iMovie.

Ethical and Social Issues:
When creating this project, copyright laws needed to be addressed. When implementing this into my classroom, students need to be aware of the resources that were used to create it. Also, when asked to create their own, students need to be aware of plagiarism and siting sources that were used on the Internet. Especially if they will be publishing their social stories to YouTube or any other video site.

Evaluating Student Computer Literacy:
Students will be evaluated on their ability to use a digital camera, upload and insert photos into an iMovie, search the Internet for images, and creating a multi-media project using iMovie. Students will have the freedom to create stories either with Internet images or digital photos.