hands on! explore tech and nature together!
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Hands on! Explore Tech and Nature Together!
Digital Storytelling Outdoors
Susan WellsFounder, TechTerra Education
Why spend time outdoors?
Impact of getting outdoors
Benefits to cognitive behavior School Performance improves Critical Thinking increases Attentional Difficulties decrease Positive Social Interactions increase
Why digital storytelling?
Digital storytelling is Using computer-based tools to tell a story Combining the art of telling a story with
graphics, audio, video, music, text, and Web-based publishing tools
Not too long, averaging 2-4 minutes Personal Informative Used with students from PreK through
graduate school Used with every grade and every content
area
Digital storytelling steps
Steps of digital storytelling include
Think Research Plan Storyboard Gather media
images, audio, video
Create Edit Finish Share Reflect
Digital storytelling tools WeVideo
Story Creator
Shadow Puppet
ThinkLink
So many more… iMovie Toontastic Explain Everything Pic Collage Sock Puppets
“I know only one thing about the technologies that await us in the future: We will find ways to tell stories with them” Jason Ohler
Thank you for being here!
Susan WellsISTE Mobile Learning Network PresidentFounder TechTerra Educationwww.TechTerraEducation.com@wellssusan@[email protected]
Resources and ResearchWells, N.M. (2000). At Home with Nature: Effects of “greenness” on children’s cognitive functioning. Environment and Behavior (32), 6, pp 775-795. http://eab.sagepub.com/cgi/content/abstract/32/6/775
https://www.childrenandnature.org/research/
https://www.techterraeducation.com
Kuo, PhD, Frances E., and Andrea Faber Taylor, PhD. "A Potential Natural Treatment for Attention- Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder: Evidence From a National Study." American Journal of Public Health 94.9. Sept. 2004.
http://www.storycenter.org/