| Ms. Gaind's eleventh-grade World History students started the school year with a unit about Unresolved Problems of the Modern World, for which they wrote an essay. The students focused on local, community, and global concerns and worked to develop responses to the issues they uncovered. In the spring students revisited these ideas in a digital storytelling workshop and, as a culminating event for the study unit, created short movies ("digital stories").
The content for the project addressed California State Standards 10.9, 10.10, and 10.11 for Modern World History, and the creative process allowed the students to investigate their subjects in a more personal way by using narrative work, visual material, and digital tools to further examine and consider solutions to the problems and conditions they had previously identified. Participating students wrote scripts for their films and rehearsed their voiceover presentation with their peers before making recordings. They gathered relevant imagery and illustrations for their movies and then assembled the films using video-editing software, adding titles, music, transitions, and special effects to complete their projects.
To view the digital stories, click on the links below. |
