Tuesday, February 19, 2013

Lewis and Clark Explore the Great Unknown

I'm doing my digital story on Lewis and Clark, a unit that is coming up shortly in our school.  I've got a lot of work to do, including narration, adding pictures, and possibly adding music, but here's a sneak peek of what it looks like so far...


I plan on showing the finished video as a prelude to all the reading and learning students will be doing.  I think this is especially important because I have a few ELL students and several students who struggle with reading comprehension.  Watching this video prior to reading texts about Lewis and Clark will hopefully give them some much needed background knowledge that will assist in their comprehension.

If you can't see the video above, too bad.  No, seriously.  I uploaded it to YouTube and embedded it below so maybe now everyone can see it (I think lots of people can't see if because they're running apple operating systems...at least that's my hypothesis since it worked on three different computers I tried at home...but now I'm rambling, so now onto the show.)

6 comments:

  1. I can't see anything. What program did you use?

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  2. I used Photostory 3. I see it on mine...hmmm...I will investigate further.

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  3. I just used my husband's computer to see if I could watch the video. He doesn't have Photostory and the video still played on his. Can somebody else please try to watch and let me know if it works for them? thanks!

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  4. Your digital story is comprehensive with great pictures. It will definitely provide background knowledge to your students especially the ELL students and any other students who need the visual clues.

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  5. Watched it on my MacBook Pro, and the first one worked perfectly. You can insert a PhotoStory into Blogger no problem, and it should play on both a Mac and PC. No rotten apples.

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  6. And, also it is a good idea to upload your videos to YouTube, so you have them stored not just in Blogger and on your own computer, but in a video sharing site.

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