Digital Storytelling Using Claymation

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Digital Storytelling Using Claymation

• Wayne Osborn-Hillside Elementary
• Brian Fligner-Evergreen State College

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Hillside Elementary Fort Lewis, Washington
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Who We Are

• Wayne Osborn, Teacher-Librarian
• Nancy Bennett, 2nd Grade Teacher
• Brian Fligner, Washington Reading Corps,
  Evergreen State College

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Why Digital Storytelling with Claymation?

• This was taught during an after school
  educational technology program. Nancy and Wayne
  were originally going to teach storytelling via
  Powerpoint and Photostory, but with Brians
  expertise in animation, decided to include a
  claymation component as well. We learned as much
  as the students!

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How did we choose the students?

• With help from our counselor, we targeted
  students who werent necessarily experiencing
  academic success in the classroom. Of our eight
  students, five fit into this category.

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Benefits of Digital Storytelling

• Digital storytelling brings with it solid
  educational reasons for its use. There are many
  benefits for students and teachers in learning
  and teaching using this technology. Many of the
  new strategies teachers employ in the classroom
  are easily incorporated into digital storytelling
  lessons. When students create digital stories,
  they are involved in most or all of the following
  skills

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Benefits of Digital Storytelling

• Student becomes an active, participatory learner
• Student uses organizational skills
• Student participates in an alternative learning
  style
• Student performs authentic tasks
• Student participates in peer coaching activities

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Benefits of Digital Storytelling

• Student uses higher-level thinking skills in
  evaluation, application, and synthesis of ideas
• Student becomes a communicator of knowledge to
  others
• Student becomes a designer of effective and
  stimulating communication
• Student utilizes inquiry-based learning

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Benefits of Digital Storytelling

• Student participates in instructional change
• Student integrates technology into curriculum
  projects
• Student participates in peer review
• Student uses authentic project-based outcomes to
  share their work

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Benefits of Digital Storytelling

• Student utilizes reflection in a way which
  improves their skills
• Student participates in planning, writing, and
  narrating projects which promote reading and
  literacy in its truest form.
• Kay Teehan in Digital Storytelling In and Out of
  the Classroom

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21st Century Standards

• 1. Inquire, think critically, and gain knowledge
• 1.2.2 Demonstrate confidence and self-direction
  by making independent choices in the selection of
  resources and information.
• 1.3.3 Follow ethical and legal guidelines in
  gathering and using information.
• 1.3.4 Contribute to the exchange of ideas within
  the learning community.

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21st Century Standards

• 2. Draw conclusions, make informed decisions,
  apply knowledge to know situations, and create
  new knowledge.
• 2.1.4 Use technology and other information tools
  to analyze and organize information.
• 2.1.5 Collaborate with others to exchange ideas,
  develop new understandings, make decisions, and
  solve problems.

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21st Century Standards

• 3. Share knowledge and participate ethically and
  productively as members of our democratic
  society.
• 3.2.1 Demonstrate leadership and confidence by
  presenting ideas to others in both formal and
  informal situations.
• 3.2.3 Demonstrate teamwork by working
  productively with others.

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21st Century Standards

• 4. Pursue personal and aesthetic growth.
• 4.1.8 Use creative and artistic formats to
  express personal learning.
• 4.3.1 Participate in the social exchange of
  ideas, both electronically and in person.
• 4.4.5 Develop personal criteria for gauging how
  effectively own ideas are expressed.