Image Based Story with Shadow Puppet

Reflection - I used the Shadow Puppet app to create my image based story. I thought the app was very easy to use. I browsed many of the puppet ideas to come up with an topic for myself. I liked that there were lots of images for me to search so I could blend actual pictures with web images. I also really liked that I could re-record my audio if I made a mistake...without having to begin the project over again. I think this app could be used to create all kinds of how-to videos. My third and fourth grade students spend a lot of time learning about the Dewey Decimal Classification System. This would be a fun way to create a video with images, book covers, and call numbers that would reinforce learning.

     Students could use this app for endless projects. This would be a great way to create a book report. Students could design pictures of their own, search pictures on the web, or take actual pictures from the book. This would also be a great way to review a biography of a famous person. The assignment could be set up like my "guess who?" idea, or students could plan to show highlights of a famous person's life.
     I think that the image based story projects give a person a lot more options for creating a digital project than the animated. Some of the ideas I had for the animated project were impossible because I couldn't pull in images that I felt were necessary for explanation. Younger students might prefer the simplicity of the animated story projects, but I think older students will appreciate all of the options in the image based story app. 

Animated Story Project

Literature Genres

Reflection - I have used the Sock Puppets app in the past so I decided to create my story using Puppet Pals. It was a fun way to create the video, but I felt limited in the characters that I had to choose from. I did purchase additional characters to fit my literature genres. I think that this digital storytelling would be a great back-to-school project. I would like to create a digital biography that would include a photograph of myself that would be used as an introduction to students. The video could highlight facts about my family, my job, and my hobbies. The video could be shown at our back-to-school night. Then students could work on creating their own digital biographies in the same style. They could use photographs of themselves to make the digital display more personal.