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Guiding Question: How can technology help us to share folktales?
· Become familiar with several web-based sharing tools that would be appropriate for students at this level. · Investigate Terms of Service to be sure to be in compliance with sites under consideration as well as with terms of COPPA. · Become familiar with the terms of the school’s Acceptable Use Policy. · Be sure all planned sites are not blocked by the school’s content filter.
 * To the teacher**: These steps should be followed **//before//** using web-based tools with your class:

**__Activity 7: Develop awareness of how technology tools facilitate communication__**
**__Objective:__** The students will learn about or review age-appropriate technology tools and sites that will facilitate sharing of folk tales with a wider audience.


 * Procedure:**

1. **//How are people able to communicate differently today than 50 or 100 years ago? How were folktales originally shared?//** -Students will participate in a class discussion of how the Internet and proliferation of Web2.0 tools can facilitate sharing of ideas with others outside the classroom. (using age appropriate language) -Students will respond, based on their experience, to create a concept / mind map (drawn by hand, on IWB, or using online mindmap tool of choice) of tools with which they are familiar. -Students will contrast earliest storytelling which was oral tradition with today's "viral" media.

2. **//Which of these tools could help us to tell a story to a wider audience?//** -Students will participate in discussion as to how tools such as email or Twitter or YouTube would or would not fit the needs of our folktale project. -Students will add to concept /mind map to differentiate between tools that technology tools that would and would not allow for sharing of stories.

3. //**What other tools might be available for us to use?**// -Students will view examples of Web2.0 sites displayed by the teacher that could be used to tell a story to a global audience. -Students will comment on positive and negative features of each tool and place comments are put into a chart of storytelling tools. Sample chart: · **For the teacher**: How to Use MixBook tutorial and From the Langwitches blog · **For the student**: [|Journey to Egypt] and [| Kids for Kenya]
 * **Tool:** MixBook – [] Upload images and add text to create an embeddable storybook with pages that turn. (Education version)

· **For the teacher:** Lee Kolbert explains Storybird [] (start at 4:20 min) · **For the student:** Example story from Storybird gallery: []
 * **Tool:** Storybird - []Use existingartwork to create a story.


 * **Tool:** Paper Slide Shows - Simple way to make a student video using paper and a flip cam

** · For the teacher:** Dr. Lodge McCammon explains making a paper slide show. · **For the student:**From Lynn Reedy's blog and How to Write a Complete Sentence

** · For the teacher:** Leanne Windsor plan for creating a Kindergarten storybook ** · For the student:** Students retell The Three Little Pigs in French
 * **Tool:** Voicethread [] -a collaborative, multimedia slide show of images, documents, and videos; users leave comments in 5 ways

-chart paper or concept/mind mapping tool of choice
 * Materials** :at least one classroom computer with Internet access and display capabilities such as LCD projector

Mixbook website [] Mixbook tutorial 1 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uh5y3qaYhfI Mixbook tutorial 2 http://langwitches.org/blog/2008/07/02/digital-storytelling-part-vii-mixbook/ Storybird website [|http://storybird.com] Storybird explanation by Lee Kolbert [] Storybird examples [] Paper Slide Show by Dr. Lodge McCammon http://blog.discoveryeducation.com/bsdbsd/2010/02/23/make-that-paper-slide Paper Slide Show example 1 http://lynnreedy.edu.glogster.com/paper-slide-videos/ Paper Slide Show example 2 http://vimeo.com/15001627 Voicethread http://lynnreedy.edu.glogster.com/paper-slide-videos/ Voicethread example 1 http://ed.voicethread.com/community/library/Kindergarten_Storybook_from_Leanne_Windsor/ Voicethread example 2 http://voicethread.com/share/120771/ COPPA http://coppa.org
 * Resources:**


 * Assessment for Activity 1:** No formal assessment necessary for this overview activity.

==**__Activity 8: Review appropriate behavior and safety guidelines for publishing and collaborating online.__**===

**__Objective:__** The students will learn/ review safety practices and appropriate behavior for online publishing and collaborating.

1. Students will brainstorm ideas for //How can we communicate with others online in a friendly way without sharing personal information?// 2. Students will view selected video resources and sites appropriate for the age level such as Hector's World and Online Safety Week that give examples of what not to share online. 3. Students will sign a simplified classroom contract agreeing to follow discussed safety practices (in addition to previously signed school AUP). 4. Students can complete the games and activities at sites such as NetSmartz Kids or Privacy Playground if time permits.
 * Procedure**:

- student journal or blog - (optional) Discovery Streaming Quiz Builder -for teacher reference - online curriculum from CyberSmartCurriculum
 * Materials** :-computer with Internet connection and display capabilities such as LCD projector

Internet Safety sites Hector's World http://tinyurl.com/y7lptyb Online Safety Week http://canada.aol.com/onlinesafetyweek/ Netsmartz Kids http://www.netsmartzkids.org/activities/nswhat2do.htm Cybersmart Curriculum http://cybersmartcurriculum.org/safetysecurity/lessons/2-3/whats_private/%20 Privacy Playground http://www.media-awareness.ca/english/special_initiatives/games/privacy_playground/flash/start.html Discovery Streaming Quiz Builder http://tools.discoveryeducation.com/index.cfm?strBuilder=Quiz
 * Resources**

//Optional activity//" Students will complete an online quiz set up by the teacher using Discovery Streaming Quiz Builder to assess understanding of online safety issues.
 * Assessment for Activity 2:** Students will write a blog entry or journal entry on how they will protect their personal information.