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Digital Storytelling with 6 year old Kids: Little Elephant and Doctor Monkey
Little Elephant from ozge karaoglu on Vimeo.
This is the “Little Elephant” digital story that was created by my 6 year old students last year. The story is one of the stories of Mini Magic 1 book by Macmillian which my students love listening, retelling and role-playing. There are six stories on the book and they are repetitive stories which make learners retell them easily and in a very short time.
We had created other animated stories in our school, but they were difficult to carry and we needed so many people to involve in the production and it took us a lot of time to finalize the projects. You can watch those animation films on “Daisy and Drago” – “Daisy,Drago and the Magic Wand“. (The first one came in 2nd place in International Children Film Festival and was shown in cinemas during the film festival both in Turkey and abroad.)
We finalized “Little Elephant and Doctor Monkey” project in a week, because we used the very basic things that you need when you want to film something. Children drew the animal puppets,they drew the background.We recorded their voices and they played with puppets while they were making them talk and we filmed them with a camera. We didn’t rehearse it before and filming the story took us only one hour.
So your students can create their own digital stories this way and their level of English doesn’t matter at all. They can be younger or older, I’m sure our digital native students all have their own stories that they want to tell in their own way of living and learning, it’s the 21st century way…
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September 10th, 2009 at 7:47 am
Glad to see such creativity from the young ones. Would have never believed that ‘Daisy and Draco’ was done by 6 year olds. Impressed!
Truly a validation that the next generation of digital natives will be natural creators, that is, if more teachers grow to become enablers.
September 10th, 2009 at 8:45 am
Dear Ozge,
I’ve really enjoyed The monkey video you’ve made with your students. What a great job!
Some time ago, a colleague of mine, developed a project where sts created their own comic stories and I helped putting the pictures sts drew and the audio together. You can see their work here http://bit.ly/13c09s
I’m now following you in twitter too.
September 10th, 2009 at 1:50 pm
Hi Ozge
This is truly impressive. What you are achieving with such young learners is fantastic. The way the story is told is so lovely. I bet the children had a fabulous time! Well done.
Warm wishes
Janet
September 10th, 2009 at 3:33 pm
Your film is brilliant. I hope that I can show it to the children I teach, they will really enjoy it. Well done, you should all be very proud of yourself. When I have shown it to my pupils I will try to let you know what they think.
Keep up the good work!!
September 10th, 2009 at 3:35 pm
I really enjoyed watching your film. It is brilliant. I hope to show your film to the children that I teach. I know they would really enjoy watching it too!
Keep up the good work!
September 10th, 2009 at 6:46 pm
I read his your ideas in Twitter and also I am interested in digital storytelling. I regret not speaking better the English to support a better communication. My languages are the spanish and the galician (Galicia, Spain). But I value very much these blogs. Thank you for sharing!!!
September 10th, 2009 at 8:02 pm
You know I love this story and like to share it with the world! You are really the pro at digital storytelling with young students!
September 10th, 2009 at 9:01 pm
This is so cute and creative! I love it! If you are interested in making a digital story using children’s drawings or photos, and having your kids record their voice over each page/picture, check out http://www.littlebirdtales.com It’s a really easy and fun way for kids (and parents) to get creative and doesn’t require any recording devices, downloading recording software or jumping through hoops. It’s easy enough for a child to use (it was created for children)!
September 11th, 2009 at 11:13 am
Dear all,
Thank you very much for all your motivating comments on the story =)
I would like to collaborate with you on another digital story project very soon !!
September 11th, 2009 at 6:13 pm
In spite of the difficulties with the language, it is a marvellous idea…
Certainly, an imaginary friend who is “employed” with me at the school is called Ismail…
http://contomundi.blogspot.com
http://escoladeismail.blogspot.com
September 12th, 2009 at 8:32 am
Dear Özge,
Congratulations.. for this successful atmsphere that you are creating for those students and the fact of making the lessons so enjoyable…Inspiring..This was really interesting to watch.My students will love it..I hope to show your film to my students..
September 13th, 2009 at 7:26 am
Thanks for the links,Mario
and thank you for your nice comment on the video, Dilek. I hope your students will enjoy wacthing it, if you can film your students while they are watching the film for the first time, I would appreciate that and will blog about it later =)
September 13th, 2009 at 10:07 am
it is a good idea..thank you..
September 13th, 2009 at 5:13 pm
Dear Ozge,
very creative and motivating.By the way Thanks a lot for the saturdays. with your help ı guess I’ll be able to continue my blog. If you can visit my teaching english blog and send me a comment I’ll be toooo glad.http://evasimkesyan.edublogs.org
September 13th, 2009 at 5:23 pm
Dear Eva,
Thanks for visiting my blog =)I’m happy that you have started your own blog and I am always here to help you when you need!
September 13th, 2009 at 5:39 pm
Thanks for the motivation.
September 16th, 2009 at 3:41 am
What a wonderful project! Very inspiring!
September 16th, 2009 at 4:30 pm
Thanks for the inspiration and sharing!
April 22nd, 2011 at 7:34 pm
I’m not easily impressed. . . but that’s impersisng me!