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Facilitation Plan 2005

Essential Question(s):  In what ways can digital story-telling help my students become more literate?
Monday:  July 11, 2005  [Pre-Production / Preparing] Pre-writing Drafting Collecting artifacts
9:00 - 9:15	Housekeeping Welcome!  (Karen) Enter email addresses into weblog Quick Introductions Agenda Review Parking Ethnographer/Written and Visual Artifact Collection and capturing
9:15 - 10:00	Writing Into the Day/Responding
10:00 - 10:15	Break
10:15 - 11:15	Review Digital Stories General Overview --> Share Story Review --> Share
11:15 - 12:00	Pre-Writing Draw a map of where you grew up.  As you are drawing, jot down the memories, events, and people that come to your mind.
12:00 - 1:00	Lunch
1:00 - 1:30	Theme Development Input into Inspiration (or on paper depending upon our computer capabilities) the memories, events, and people that you listed during the map drawing activity.  Group these items by themes and identify the themes.
1:30 - 2:30	Writing Choose one of the themes on your theme map and write a story about that theme.  The particular memories, events, and people you listed that are connected to that theme may serve as specific examples in your story that speak to your theme. Pay attention to the elements of what makes a good digital story as you are writing your story.
2:30 - 2:45	Break
2:45 - 3:45	Peer Review/Feedback response groups
3:45 - 4:00	Exit Slip/Debrief provide on weblog
Homework	Revise Story/Collect artifacts
Tuesday:  July 12, 2005  [Pre-Production / Planning and Organizing] Revising storyboarding
9:00 - 9:15	Housekeeping Agenda Review Ethnographer/ Written and Visual
9:15 - 10:00	Writing Into the Day/Responding What aspects of yesterday's work could you incorporate (or adapt/modify and incorporate) into your curriculum?
10:00 - 10:15	Break
10:15 - 12:00	Artifact collection/digitizing/searching/saving
12:00 - 1:00	Lunch (on your own)
1:00 - 1:30	How-to:  Importing artifacts
1:30 - 3:30	Storyboarding (on posterboard)
3:30 - 4:00	Exit Slip
Wednesday:  July 13, 2005  [Production] Editing sequencing images sequencing sound timing
9:00 - 9:05	Housekeeping Agenda Review Ethnographer/Written and Visual
9:05 - 9:45	Writing Into the Day Provide prompt
9:45 - 10:00	Break
10:00 - 12:00	Sharing of Storyboard use a protocol for looking at work in development (small groups of 4; highlight the link to other ways of looking at student work and at these protocols as potential tools for use in their classroom or in their teacher inquiry groups)
12:00 - 1:00	Lunch
1:00 - 1:30	How-to:  Moviemaker Storyboard/Timeline/Transitions
1:30 - 3:30	Work on storyboard in Moviemaker
3:30 - 4:00	Exit Slip
Thursday:  July 14, 2005  [Production]  Editing inserting titles/text/credits narrations
9:00 - 9:15	Housekeeping Agenda Review Ethnographer/Written and Visual
9:15 - 10:00	Writing Into the Day Provide prompt
10:00 - 10:15	Break
10:15 - 10:45	How-to:  Creating titles/text/credits
10:45 - 12:00	Editing (continued)
12:00 - 1:00	Lunch
1:00 - 3:30	Editing (continued)
3:30 - 4:00	Exit Slips
Friday:  July 15, 2005  [Post-Production / Distribution] final editing saving publishing
9:00 - 9:15	Housekeeping Agenda Review Ethnographer/Written and Visual release forms
9:15 - 10:00	Writing Into the Day
10:00 - 10:15	Break
10:15 - 10:30	How-to:  Produce a movie save to CD save to computer save to web
12:00 - 1:00	Lunch
1:00 - 3:30	Movie Premiers!
3:30 - 4:00	Exit Slips

• Days will begin with posting and responding based upon readings.

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