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__**Week Six:**__ Digital Storytelling and Video Sharing

 __**Step One:**__ Creation of your Digital Story You have been busy gathering the pieces and thinking about your Digital Story...now it is time to put everything together! Below I have posted the rubric for the digital story. The parameters for the assignment are the same except for one addition, sound. This sound can be a soundtrack or voice.

Be advised it is a rather generic rubric since everyone is at a different level and using the program to suit your needs. With your students you will make these rubrics a little more specific based upon your expectations for the project. When we meet again I will show you some great websites that generate rubrics for you to you in your classroom.



 __**Step Two**__: Video Collaboration Sites Why reinvent the wheel? There are some great videos that have already been created that may help you in your classroom. Many sites have been created as a forum to place your videos. These sites are also nice because they are not blocked! Click on the document below to find out more about two of these websites. Then s earch and find a video that you could use in your classroom or for some type of professional development. Post the URL to the wiki sight DISCUSSION TAB for this week. On your post, write how you would use this video.

(Don't worry...I am not going to make you post your video...unless you want to!) 

__**Step Three:**__ Teaching Content is Teaching Reading Not only do Teachertube, and Edutube provide some good resources to use in your classroom, these sites also provide teaching ideas and professional development. The follow video is a post by Daniel Willingham on TeacherTube. In this clip Willingham, makes his argument that teaching content is teaching reading and the two do not have to be detached. He is taking on reading from the perspective of a cognitive psychologist, what do you think as a teacher of reading and a teacher of content. On your **__BLOG__** respond to the following questions: What is your initial reaction to the message of Willingham’s video?

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A brief bio from his website: Daniel Willingham has a Ph.D. in Cognitive Psychology and is currently a professor of Psychology. His research focuses upon brain basis learning and memory. Today, all of his research concerns the application of cognitive psychology to K-12 education. He writes the “Ask the Cognitive Scientist” column for //American Educator// magazine, and blogs at the //Washington// //Post.// He is also the author of //Why Don't Students Like School?//