Introduction Activity: Create a Digital Story

Make a photo story of your digital lives. 

Select pictures that represent your digital life: your favorite digital media (Internet, cell phones, mobile media, etc.), how you use them, when you use them, what you do with them, and why. 

You can choose which software you use to complete this task Suggestions; PowerPoint, iMovie, Moviemaker, Powtoon etc...

Arrange your content in a presentation. Below each slide you must write a few sentences describing each picture. The sentence can explain what you are doing, when, and why.

Tip: make sure pictures and sentences fit together to tell a story.  It may be better to incorporate sound and movie files

DEADLINE Wednesday 03rd September

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Resources

SoundBible 

Freeplay 

Creative Commons 
Inserting Powerpoint Images
Youtube  Downloader (Download)

Digital Footprint

Adding a Widget

1. Set up a Twitter account and add the twitter gadget to your blog. (on Blog layout go to add gadget. Select HTML/Java Script

Grab the code from this website

http://twitter.com/about/resources/widgets 
Copy and paste the code that is generated into the box

Twitter Tips

So, how is Twitter different?

Your first Blog post

For your first blog post I want to you to write two paragraphs.

1 An introduction. Tell me something about yourself

2 Secondly. I want you to set yourself two targets for ICT. What would you like to accomplish in our technology class this year. This could be learning something new (a skill, or learning how to use a piece of software, or something unspecific like time management and handing your work in on time). Alternatively it could be something you did last year that you would like to improve on.

Student Survey

Set-up a Google account

Class Blog Discovery

WELCOME BACK

This is our class blog. The class blog allows for communication between teacher and students, but it also allow communication between students. Along with Twitter, this a forum where you can express your thoughts, feelings, and ideas about our technology class. Using the blog often and participating in discussion will create a digital learning community that can benefit us all in a multitude of ways. 

Your task is to browse this website. Click on links to other sights, watch videos, read about assignments, browse the photo feed and twitter feed, and view other students' contributions and websites. After browsing the site, please answer the following questions about what you have found.

1. Name
2. Year Group
3. Tell one thing you liked about the site.
4. Tell one thing that could be improved, or tell about something you would like to see on the site
5. List two things we will be leaning this year
6. Tell one thing you liked about the site.
7. What supplies will you need for every class?
8. What should happen in the first 5 minutes of every class