Tell Me A Digital Story

(Grades 4 - 8)

Activity List

The following is a list of activities designed to provide you with a comprehensive, Standards-Aligned, Literacy & Technology-driven curriculum for Digital Story Telling.  Feel free to add your own elements, delete activities, or modify the unit to work best for you and your students.  The only requirement is to have fun!

Intended Learning

Students will learn the basics of digital storytelling through collaborative and individual work in activities that teach and reinforce skills in brainstorming, script writing, First-Person writing, storyboarding, and production and presentation of their digital story.

Unit Activities

• Introduction to Digital Storytelling
• Brainstorming and Topic determination
• Effective and appropriate Internet search techniques
• Storytelling vs. news story or report
• Script writing
• Storyboarding
• Peer review of storyboards
• Digital story production
• Project showcase