Create your own digital story

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1 Aussie Clue Cracker Activity Create yur wn digital stry Create yur wn digital stry Outline Inquiry apprach Students create their wn digital stry that utilises at least 3 icns and symbls, and may draw n the Australian Citizenship Affirmatin Students will gain an understanding f: Days and weeks celebrated r cmmemrated in Australia (including Australia Day, Harmny Week, ANZAC Day, NAIDOC week) and the imprtance f symbls and emblems (Australian Curriculum, Histry, Year 3, ACHHK063) This can be an individual r small, mixed ability grup activity. ASK: Tune In Intrduce and discuss the inquiry questin: What wuld I include in an Australian digital stry? Engage yur students by discussing what is meant by a digital stry and hw symbls and icns can be used t create atmsphere and feeling. Discuss the task at hand yur students need t wrk individually r in small grups t create their wn digital stry that prtrays what it means t them t be a yung Australian in the 21st Century. Each digital stry will need t include 3 icns r symbls (like sme film festivals d). Decide, as a class, what these 3 icns/symbls must be. Encurage yur students t brainstrm the different things they wuld include in their wn digital stry, t capture what they think it means t be a yung Australian and the symbls r icns they wuld use. Ensure that yu have access t apprpriate sftware t create the digital stries, such as PhtStry r imvie. INVESTIGATE: Find Out Yur students will need t develp an understanding f hw t use the sftware, including the prcesses f strybarding and finding the digital assets (their wn images, images frm the Aussie Clue Cracker r elsewhere) t create their digital stry. They may refine their apprach nce they have a clear idea f what they have available t them. CREATE: Srt Out Once yur students have gathered all the resurces they need (including the 3 symbls decided upn as cmpulsry fr all stries), it will be time t plan their digital stry. Yu can refer t Wrksheets 1 and 2 t help yur students understand hw t cllect and rganise their digital stry.

2 Aussie Clue Cracker Activity Create yur wn digital stry DISCUSS and Make Cnnectins Yur students will begin t shape their new thughts and ideas and will develp their digital stry learning artefact either in a grup r individually (depending n their ICT skills, there may be sme teacher input in the develpment stage). Encurage yur students t share their plans and their ideas and t cmpare ntes, discuss cnclusins, and share their experiences. When their digital stry has been cmpleted, think abut planning a film festival event fr yur class and ask each student t present their digital stry t a small grup r the whle class. Yu might even cnsider students reviewing each ther s wrk and sharing these reviews with the whle class. EXTEND: Ging further Further explre cncepts, interests and ideas and raise new questins and challenge any assumptins made REFLECT: Take time with yur students t encurage them t lk back at the questin - What wuld I include in an Australian digital stry? and encurage them t share what they knw nw Ask them t reflect n hw they used the Aussie Clue Cracker, what they fund, the cnclusins they made, the bservatins they tk Ask yur students if an answer t the questin was fund and discuss any new questins that arse as part f the inquiry Resurces fr teachers Australia Day (Natinal Australia Day Cuncil) The electrate ffices f Senatrs and Federal Members f Parliament have available (at n cst) Australian flags and Australian symbls bklets and recrdings f the Australian Natinal Anthem (CD and DVD). Flags are als available n request t eligible grups such as schls. 2

3 Aussie Clue Cracker Activity Create yur wn digital stry Infrmatin n the Australian Cat f Arms may be dwnladed frm 3

4 Aussie Clue Cracker Activity Create yur wn digital stry Wrksheet 1 Planning My Digital Stry Tips t get yu thinking. A stry is a narrative, tale, reprt r an accunt. A digital stry is very persnal. This stry will be abut YOU and yur feeling abut what it means t be a yung Australian it will reflect yur ideas, thughts, views, experiences, bservatins, pinins, cnversatins, questins and reflectins. Yur vice, as the stryteller, is imprtant t the stry. Stries are mst pwerful when they cme frm a persnal perspective. And remember t include yur 3 Australian icns/symbls. Finding yur stry Start small. This is a ne-minute stry. Keep it simple. This is a mment in time. Think abut: Wh is the audience? Yur classmates? Wh will yu wrk with? On yur wn r in a grup? The purpse f the stry: t share yur feelings abut what it means t be a yung Australian. What might the stry be abut? Hw will yu include the 3 symbls? Yu culd start with the images yu d like t use wrk ut the phts r digital images rearrange them, srt them smetimes the stry emerges frm the different sequences yu develp. Draft yur script. Read it ut lud. Redraft it. Get rid f wrdiness. If it feels right, leave it. 4

5 Aussie Clue Cracker Activity Create yur wn digital stry Wrksheet 2 - Strybard Task: Yu need t break yur stry dwn using visual images fr different sectins f yur stry. Cllect yur images tgether. If yu dn t have digital versins, the hard cpy images will eventually need t be scanned. Aim t cllect 8-15 images. Use PwerPint t create yur draft strybard. Yu must include the 3 symbls decided upn by the class. Vide/images Text/Audi 5