Workshop+Day+4

=Day 4: Group storytelling with VoiceThread and Audacity= Now that students have experience with the audio tools in this class, students will work in groups to tell a story using some advanced techniques. Students will create, edit, peer-review, and present a fairy tale. This lesson can be used in English and foreign language classes. media type="custom" key="13981534" align="right"

//In this lesson, students will://
 * collaborate online and offline, in text and in voice
 * be responsible for individual and group effort
 * use multiple multimedia tools

Suggested stories

 * 1) Goldie Locks and the Three Bears
 * 2) Little Red Riding Hood
 * 3) The Three Little Pigs
 * 4) The Tortoise and the Hare
 * 5) The Ugly Duckling

//Note:// For foreign language classes, students may choose to create a translated version of a story in English or choose a story from the culture of their foreign language class. Wikipedia has a list of fairy tales from many different cultures.

Group roles

 * 1) Image Finder/VoiceThread creator
 * 2) Editor
 * 3) Presenter

Part 1: Rough draft with VoiceThread

 * 1) Team decides what story to tell and in how many parts to tell it.
 * 2) Image Finder finds images that help tell the story in parts. This person creates the VoiceThread with a slide for each image.
 * 3) Each team member chooses a part of the story to tell and tells that part as the first comment on the VoiceThread slide.
 * 4) Team members comment on each part of the story, offering suggestions for improvement.

Part 2: Edits and final cut

 * 1) Using the feedback in the comments, each team member re-records his/her part in Audacity.
 * 2) Editor collects the individual Audacity files and combines them into one.

Part 3: Presentation

 * 1) Presenter takes the combined story and the images and creates a presentation using Screencast-o-matic.
 * 2) Presenter links to the presentation in the Student Work section.