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Tell Your Story

Tell Your Story

2021-01-27-2 until 2021-02-067

Goal Build a website to share media you create to tell your story.

Objectives
  • Examine the selfie as an artifact of identity
  • Explore learner identities and the impact this has on learning.
  • Explore the impact learning and education have on identitiea.
  • Annotate a research article for descriptive statistics
Key Vocabulary:Bell Curve, Kurtosis, Skewness, D(d)iscourses, remix, creative commons, text structure, narrative
Technology Fluency 1 stuff hit:
  • Students will be able to use and create structured electronic documents.
  • Students will be able to use graphical and multimedia technologies.
Activities

Week One: Shape of Stories

Read

Reflection on the Reading

Think of a story you know well- a novel, a song, a TV show, and see if you can create an diagram showing the shape of that story, and annotate it as well with plot points at key points on the curve. You can do this in graphic software or sketch on a piece of paper and take a digital photo of your curve.

 

Write due by 2021-02-01

Write a blog post that describes how that shape influences the effectiveness of the story.

Free choice writing

You can write about anything you want, and writing means any kind of encoding meaning in text, and text can be anything from song, dance, video, art, sounds, or words.

If you hate the tyranny of free choice and need the creativity of constraint here is a topic:

"If you could invent a holiday what would it be? What traditions would it include?

Participate Due 2021-02-03

Complete Walkmyworld Task One

Now that you’ve considered the shape of a story, meet with a group and choose  other forms of communication you do might have a “shape” – what is the shape of an email message? a syllabus? a lesson plan? a research paper? a conference presentation? Think about how you might apply some of the ideas from story shape to these forms of communication.

Each person should blog about the communication format before you discuss the shape. Then comment back and forth on each other's post.

Week Two: Selfies and Identities

Read Due 2021-02-08

As you read take notes on the idea of "Why do we take selfies? Do you take selfies? Pick some element of selfie culture and connect it back to the readings."

Post your notes or written reflections of the readings.

Write Due 2021-02-10

The Quantified Self Assignment: Write about your quantified self. What do you read, watch, listen to, and compose? What do you keep track of? Your followers? Your likes? Your steps walked? Your workouts? Your heart rate? Your sleep? Your gas mileage? Your hours worked? The number of books read? Your “top 9” instagrams and snapchats?

Free choice blog. Optional topic:

What do you think young adults misunderstand about young people? How could you help them to understand better?

Participate Due 2021-02-10

Complete Walkmyworld Task 2

Make a Selfie (but not a pic).

  • You could create an infographic with your stats like the Quantify Yourself chart in the article. Piktochart could be a great resource for this. 
  • You could create  a short film: alternating some day-in-the-life style video perhaps with some narrative and images from you. I would keep this under 2-3 minutes. And I would compose a film, not simply talk to a webcam.
  • You could create a collage of yourself, using pop culture, the things you read, watch, listen to, make, etc How is your identity represented by the artifacts and texts you’re surrounded by?
  • Try using art or drawing to represent the ideas we’ve worked with about self/selfies (digital art or actual painting/drawing). What would it look like to string a bunch of your selfies together? What gets left out of the selfie series? What is still hidden and how might to represent that in art forms?
  • Lots of ideas for sharing stories about yourself here too.

 

Week three: Schools and Identities

Read Due 2021-02-15

Take notes and identify the key vocabulary and concepts about identity.

Write Due 2021-02-17

Did you have a good identity as a learner? OR Write a story about two people one who has a positive view of learning and school and one does not. Explore their backstory to explain this world view.

Free Choice Blog. Optional topic:

What is one thing you wish you knew how to cook? How could you learn?

Participate: Dues 2021-02-17

Walkmyworld Task 3

Work on your personal website.

Here are the tutorials

Here is the starter page

 

Week Four: Photos and Identities

Read

No readings this week

Write: Due 2021-02-24

Complete 5 of the seven photo challenges posted throughout the week.

Participate: 2021-02-24

Walkmyworld Task 4

Post a page with photos on your website. Back here on the class blog tell us how you did it ad what you learned.