School+Teams2

Digital Storytelling Action Research Project
 * =Meet Our Powerful Learning Practice Teams for the El Paso Digital Storytelling Cohort=

** Team members: **Karen Foley, Susan Barron and Victoria Macha

 * Schools: **Nixon, Barron

**Abstract**

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We want to use Glogster to incorporate technology into the district curriculum at the same time allow parents to instantly view what the students are working on in the classroom.. We also want to get away from paper and pencil lessons that are rather boring and bring excitement back to the classroom. ===== **Problem, Issue, or Possibility:** How can we incorporate technology into the district's packed curriculum while sharing with parents what we are learning at school?

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We think our project will be a small first step to show other teachers how technology can be simply added into an already full day. It seems like we hear more and more often about how there is no time to teach or use technology during the day. We think if teachers will try just this one small change that they will discover that technology doesn't have to be some huge unreachable goal but can be a highly motivating way to enhance what they are already teaching. We also think that our parents involvement will increase if parents have access to projects like this that show what is being accomplished in the classroom. We plan to prove that this will work by having other campus teachers have their classes build Glogs about what is happening in their classrooms. =====

** Implementation Plan **
Timeline - Sept.11: Our group joined with another group and discussed coming up with a new project. We decided on Glogster as a way of enhancing the curriculum. Sept.29: We met with Robert Rocha at Nixon to learn more about Glogster Oct .13: We met with Karen at Fannin to get help with any problems that we might be facing with Glogster Oct. 20: We met again with Robert Rocha at Nixon. We worked on adding sound clips and a slide show to the Glog page Groups will work on projects individually. After the project debut, we would also like to share Glogster with teachers at a faculty meeting and help others if they would like to implement the use in their classroom. We would also like to survey parents to see what they thought about Glogster!

**Evaluation and Results**

<span style="color: #008000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 110%;">//Technical Skills Learned://
//Other Skills Learned://
 * ===== //Use of digital camera// =====
 * ===== //Use of video camera// =====
 * ===== //How to to use garage band to record voices and save to a MP3 file// =====
 * ===== //How to use Movie Maker to make a movie of photos// =====
 * ===== //How to organize information in order to put it on a glog page// =====
 * //How to use photos and images and give copyright information.//
 * //How to work cooperatively in a group//
 * //Determine what type of information is important to include in a presentation.//

<span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">**Artifacts and Documentation**
<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;"> The URL's below are some of the artifacts that were created through this grant: <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;"> [] __<span style="color: black; font-family: tahoma,arial,'nimbus sans l',sans-serif; font-size: small;">@http://skkyad2.edu.glogster.com/glog-4221-7904/ __ __<span style="color: black; font-family: tahoma,arial,'nimbus sans l',sans-serif; font-size: small;">@http://srfwx5t.edu.glogster.com/glog-1788-2253/ __ __<span style="color: black; font-family: tahoma,arial,'nimbus sans l',sans-serif; font-size: small;">@http://sjs59n4.edu.glogster.com/glog-1603-8705/ __ http://kdfoley.edu.glogster.com/kb-december-glog/ http://kdfoley.edu.glogster.com/kb-november-glog/ http://kdfoley.edu.glogster.com/kb-october-glog/ <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;"> <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">

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