Digital Stories

As part of our final project, Susan Chubb and I created a video introducing our students to an imovie project about stress. As part of our 8th grade curriculum, we discuss stress, how to handle stress, and ways to keep from becoming stressed. We thought it would be more meaningful if the students examine stress within the context of their own lives.

To introduce the imovie assignment, we found a non-zen PowerPoint about stress and we used that as an example. We created a situation in which we were asking the students to help produce interesting imovies to teach all about stress since our own materials were so dull and unexciting.

We had a lot of fun making our introduction imovie and we used the procedure that we were requiring our students to follow. First, we made a storyboard, then we practiced (a little), and next we shot the footage. Finally, we did a “quick” imovie edit, which actually took longer than we planned since we were both new to imovie. My only problem with this assignment is that somehow, I was stuck being filmed, and I hate to appear in videos!