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WHAT A STORY!: LIFE STORIES AND DIGITAL STORYTELLING 1 LES WHAT A STORY!: LIFE STORIES AND DIGITAL STORYTELLING Objectives > Students will explore the composition of multi-media productions. > Students will create a digital story using video editing software. > Students will reflect upon the life stories of persons who have suffered human rights violations.

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PrésentationUne introduction au thème des violations des droits humains et des définitions-clés autour des violations des droits humains du déplacement et de l'histoire de vie.

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Objectives

> Students will explore the composition of multi-media productions.

> Students will create a digital story using video editing software. > Students will reflect upon the life stories of persons who have

suffered human rights violations.

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PreParation Phase

integration Phase

aPPendices

Production Phase

additional activities

evaluation criteria in the context of the QeP

RESOURCES and Tools

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Teacher PreParaTiOn

Preview the complete digital story and interview in order to: > Reflect on your pedagogical objectives. > Prepare to present the project to the

students and show them its relevance to your course.

> Prepare the activity “What I know; What I Want to know; What I learned.”

> Prepare the listening chart activity to “dissect” the interview into listening sections.

> Develop questions for discussion after the screening.

Consult the educational package to: > Become informed about the uses of life

stories in Secondary Cycle Two in Quebec. > Learn the key definitions and the subject

matter of human rights violations.

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→ Discovering the digital story

→ Feedback on the LES and Voicethread

Section a: Deep listening to a digital story, and analysis with the aid of a listening chartSection B: Creation of a digital story

Link to the QEP: English Language Arts Level: Secondary Cycle Two Classroom time: Six 75 minute periods

1Digital story of Liselotte IvryTragic accident in Hamburg (4 minutes 27 seconds): ds.lifestoriesmontreal.ca/video-1

interview segment of Paul Bard(34 minutes)lifestoriesmontreal.ca/en/curriculum

Windows Movie Maker (PC) microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=34x

iMovie (Mac)apple.com/ilife/imovie/

Wordle wordle.net

VoiceThread voicethread.com

ManyEyesmanyeyes.alphaworks.ibm.com/manyeyes/page/Word_Tree.html Adobe Premier Elements (with fees) adobe.com/products/premiereel

appendix: “What I Know; What I Want to Know; What I Learned“ sheet

Appendix: Listening Chart

> audio/video recording equipment > computer > internet access

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Viewing anD DiScuSSiOn

→ During the Viewing

In groups of two, the students attempt to develop answers to the questions that you created during your preview of the digital story.

→ After the Viewing

The students present the questions, along with the answers they have come up with, to the class.

The students fill in the 3rd column of the “What I Know, What I Want to Know, What I Learned” sheet, thus showing the process followed and the knowledge acquired.

DiScOVering The DigiTal STOry

Tell the students that you just watched a digital story by a Holocaust survivor produced by an initiative called Life Stories of Montrealers Displaced by War, Genocide or Other Human Rights Violations. In your presentation, put emphasis on the project’s backbone: the life story. Ask the students the following questions: What do you know about the Holocaust? Why should this genocide be of concern to you? Have you ever met a Holocaust survivor, or been to a Holocaust memorial?

Carry out the “What I Know, What I Want to know, What I Learned” activity for columns 1 and 2.

Announce the viewing of the digital story. The viewing will be followed by a discussion involving the whole class.

Get the students to react to the terms “life story” and “digital story” and guide them towards a definition.

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Digital story of Liselotte IvryTragic accident in Hamburg (4 minutes 27 seconds): ds.lifestoriesmontreal.ca/video-1

appendix: “What I Know, What I Want to Know, What I Learned“ sheet

The definition of “life story” as developed by the students.

The definition of “digital story” as developed by the students.

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grOuP liSTening anD DiScuSSiOn

To start the project, propose a deep listening exercise to the interview of Paul Bard.

Divide the class into listening groups made up of 2 to 3 students and distribute a listening chart to each group. Each group will listen to an extract of the interview and will determine what needs to be incorporated into the digital story.

With the help of the listening chart, each group will attentively view the extract assigned to them, write a short summary of it, and decide upon the key words.

Once this exercise has been completed, each group determines what, in their opinion, is crucial to retain as part of the digital story.

Each group presents the result of their listening to the class along with their choices regarding what to keep, what to eliminate, and why.

Engage in a discussion, specifically about: > The experience as a “listener“ vs a

“reader” > The narrative choices made > The role of silences and gestures > The role of images > The responsibilities that accompany

listening to a difficult story

SecTiOn a: liSTening

Present to the students the challenge of producing a 5 minute digital story based on a 30 minute video interview of Paul Bard, a Holocaust survivor.

Discuss with the class the organization required and various steps involved in carrying out this project. Students must listen to the interview, analyze it, choose the excerpts, define the selection criteria, become familiar with the software, reserve the computer laboratory, evaluate the amount of classroom time, etc.

Present the editing and montage software that you have chosen, and explain how it works.

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Interview segment of Paul Bard(34 minutes)lifestoriesmontreal.ca/en/curriculum

Appendix: Listening Chart

The listening charts filled in by the listening groups.

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eDiTing anD MOnTage

You can keep the listening groups together: each group will carry out the editing of the excerpt that they listened to. Pooling of the efforts of the various groups will be necessary to link the segments, write the transition texts and insert special effects as needed.

Supervise the students during the editing process. The software (Windows Movie Maker (PC) or iMovie (Mac)) is simple and intuitive. Here are a few recommendations: > Keep to a maximum of 2 or 3 headings > Use simple transitions such as “dissolve“ or

“fade.“ > Use special effects only where they sup-

port the story and the narrative choices.

Once the work is done, encourage the students, through discussion, to be critical of the created digital story. Consider the way that narratives can be modified, the meaning built into the digital story vs the meaning of the interview, and questions of narrative form.

SecTiOn B: creaTiOn Of a DigiTal STOry

Introduce the students to the challenge of writing and editing the interview to convert it into a digital story about five minutes long. This is a matter of converting a long format into a short and dynamic one, thus making the story accessible to a broader audience.

Organize a discussion about the issues involved in the writing and editing. Consider the following: > The possible approaches, such as

chronological, anecdotal, or thematic > The narrative choices > The headings (commentary) between the

sections > The music > A major title at the beginning and credits

with all the students’ names at the end? > A narration (voice over) > The target audience for the work

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Interview segment of Paul Bard(34 minutes)lifestoriesmontreal.ca/en/curriculum

Appendix: Listening Chart

Windows Movie Maker (PC) explore.live.com/windows-live-movie-maker

iMovie (Mac) apple.com/ilife/imovie/

The selected approach (chronological, anecdotal or thematic).

The work material of each group and the final digital story.

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inTegraTe

Put the digital story on VoiceThread. The students can encourage their family and friends to contribute audio, video or text comments about the video.

feeDBack aBOuT The leS

Review the ground covered over the course of the LES, including the discovery of the world of the digital story.

Encourage the students to reflect and to provide feedback, perhaps in the form of a text written at home, about the creation process of the digital story and about digital storytelling more generally.

1VoiceThreadvoicethread.com

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Oral cOMMunicaTiOn

Put together a publicity campaign to promote the digital stories in the school (design a promotional brochure, organize a viewing session, present the work to other classes, etc.).

wriTing

Each student chooses one word used by the person interviewed. Create a word cloud from these words and insert the students’ words for reflection (1 word per student) using Wordle.

View the digital story using ManyEyes.

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Wordle wordle.net (with the Advanced section)

ManyEyesmanyeyes.alphaworks.ibm.com/manyeyes/page/Word_Tree.html

OQLF www.granddictionnaire.com/BTML/FRA/r_Motclef/index800_1.asp

LES A Dialogue Time: Interviewing and Building a Collective Timeline/Ethics and Religious Culturelifestoriesmontreal.ca/en/curriculum

Mapping Memories: Participatory Media, Place-Based Stories & Refugee Youthwww.mappingmemories.ca/curriculum

Discussion Guides: Quick and Simple Activities about Digital Stories for the Classroomlifestoriesmontreal.ca/en/curriculum

Six Key Activities for the Classroom: Listening, Mapping, the Timeline, the Audio guide, The Graphic Novel, the Digital Storylifestoriesmontreal.ca/en/curriculum

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→ Documents to be Evaluated

> “What I Know, what I Want to Know, What I Learned“

> Created digital story > Composition of the transition texts for the

digital story > Student reflection on the process

→ Documents to Evaluate

> Viewing of Liselotte Ivry’s digital story > Listening chart

→ Documents to be Evaluated

> “What I know, what I Want to Know, What I Learned“

> Listening chart > Discussion of the created digital story > Group by group oral presentations based

on the listening chart

→ Evaluation Criteria

> Integrates elements of communication context

> Applies codes and conventions of different modes and genres

> Collaborates with peers to produce media texts

> Adapts process and strategies to the writing/production context

> Self-evaluates growth as a writer/producer

→ Evaluation Criteria

> Adjusts reading strategies and stance to build and sustain meaning

> Makes connections between reader, text and context to justify own interpretations

→ Evaluation Criteria

> Adapts resources and strategies to purpose and audience

c3 PrODuceS TexTS fOr PerSOnal anD SOcial PurPOSeS

> Extends repertoire of resources for producing texts

> Constructs a relationship between writer/producer, text and context

> Adapts a process to produce texts in specific contexts

c2 reaDS anD liSTenS TO wriTTen, SPOken, anD MeDia TexTS

> Makes sense of a text in a specific context > Interprets the relationship(s) between

reader, text, and context in light of own responses

c1 uSeS language/Talk TO cOMMunicaTe anD learn

> Investigates the affordances of spoken language as a mode of communication

> Develops rhetorical strategies to achieve specific purposes

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EvALuATion CriTEriA in ThE ConTExT of ThE QEP

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1 What a Story!: Life Stories and Digital StorytellingAPPEndiCEs: whaT i knOw, whaT i wanT TO knOw, whaT i learneD

What I Already Know What I Want to Know What I Learned

First and last name:

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Timing Key Wordssummary(question asked and essential elements of the response)

APPEndiCEs: LisTEning ChArT

First and last names of the members of the group:

Interview with:1 What a Story!: Life Stories and Digital Storytelling

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