For the second activity I tried to do a story board for my MMP, but I ended up doing more of a map than a story map. My project is actually not a movie or website exactly, but is a series of Glogs embedded into my class wiki in order to further elucidate my first unit. What I've drawn below is a plan for the first two glogs that I planned to get done before the end of this class. The map basically outlines the multimodal components that I feel would best add to an understanding of our unit themes and connection concepts. I tried to use the same shapes and colors for different types of pieces, such as video, music, links, quotations, or text. In this way I focused on making sure that my glogs used a variety of modalities to try to reach out to my students and help them better understand our unit concepts.
Take a look at my screencast for this week to see how the first map has come to life!
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I loved the video! I think that no matter how much technology we develop, there will always be place for theater. (I've always loved the anonymous quote "Theatre is life. Cinema is art. Television is furniture.") I think you've captured that here: the students are alive, and truly themselves on the stage, and you've had to apply an interpretation and theme to fit a summary into film here. You did a great job! The theater was life, and the movie is art. For our students, YouTube is clearly not television, theater or art. I guess it's up to their generation to invent (discover?) what online media can be, and up to us to help them explore that space.
ReplyDeleteOn your drawings, I also found the storyboard format to be more "film-centric", where it seems better suited to the process of using a camera to narrate a story. For web based technologies, it seemed a bit lacking, which I'm finding very informative. Story-boarding is so linear, and the web is so non-linear. I love how you used shape, color and outline to map concepts into components, allowing yourself to branch in multiple directions at once. Very well done, in my humble opinion! There is certainly room on the web for a tool that allows teachers to sketch their thoughts, and arrange them into some type of web format. I think your drawings do a much better job than mine of capturing that!
(By the way, Fahrenheit 451 is on the reading list for the middle school in my town. Amazing to think that the Internet basically makes book-burning futile!)
Hi Kash,
ReplyDeleteYou did a wonderful job with the creation of this video! I love that you were able to use footage of your students for this assignment. The combination of the text with the audio (great track, btw!) and video was well done.
I agree with Katie on all of the points she mentioned above! That's a terrific quote, Katie -- well suited to your interpretation of Kash's Concept in 60.
You did a great job with your illustrations, Kash. Katie summed it up nicely when she wrote that storyboarding is such a linear process for plotting such a dimensional process (web-based construction). I look forward to seeing your Glogs in "live" form!
Best,
Erica
I'm right there with Katie and Erica. Kash - the video is fabulous. It should be shared with parents so we can get grass roots support for the arts in our local schools. I loved the symmetry of your rhetorical questions. It helped drive the point home.
ReplyDeleteWhere is the music from? It was perfect for this video?
I agree that a strict storyboard doesnt quite capture the fluid nature of a website precisely because its not linear. Color coding the constructs on each page for each glog works well. I created a site map for my website -- and while on 2 dimensional paper the storyboards appear linear - they really are not. Site maps or in this case a glog construct map is a great way to make sure that we're thinking about all the necessary components.
Great job.
SHERI
Hi Kash,
ReplyDeleteI loved your video! The kids seemed to really have a fun time acting and the stage was nicely created.Using your own students for the videow helped to make it more memorable and special. The captions that you used were clever and appropriate. Nice job!
Joanne
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