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2. Listen to ten different sounds and try to identify and write down. 3. Go over together what the sounds were and how many got them correct. 4. This should have all involved alert and ready to listen and participate in the staff development. || 5 minutes || Intrinsic Motivation to Learn: The Learner’s creativity, higher order thinking, and natural curiosity all contribute to motivation to learn. |||| Have the teachers watch as a very brief, 5 pictures, digital story is made. This will show how easy, fast, and rewarding making a digital story can be. || 1. Import pictures. 2. Arrange pictures in the correct sequence. 3. Customize the motion. 4. Add titles and sound. 5. Save in the appropriate place. || 10 minutes || 2. Customize and add titles and sound. 3. Save on a flash drive or a disc that is provided from workshop. || 20 minutes ||
 * Session Purpose: Facilitate learning through the use of technology in the science curriculum. ||
 * Learning Objective to Be Addressed: Use of digital storytelling to promote better science scores. ||
 * Approving Principal: Kathy Owen |||||| Presentation Date: 10/7/09 ||
 * Grade Level: 2-5: Teachers are encouraged to bring digital camera/storage of digital pictures. || Facilitator: Kim Icenhower |||| Location: School Computer Lab with access to computers. Provide discs to save work. || Start Time: 3:15 || End-Time: 4:00 ||
 * Learner-Centered Activity ||  Purpose  ||||  Description  ||  Steps  ||  Estimated Time  ||
 * Name That Sound || Capture attention of participants and actively involve them in an activity that they can use with their students. Based on “Learner-Centered Psychological Principle” number 7: Motivational and emotional influence on learning, motivation and emotions influence the quality of thinking and processes can enhance learning. |||| Teachers list as many sounds as they can identify through the use of sound waves of different things or occurrences found on the Internet. (Ex: door slamming, bird chirping, egg cracking.) || 1. Number page from 1-10.
 * Name That Sound || Capture attention of participants and actively involve them in an activity that they can use with their students. Based on “Learner-Centered Psychological Principle” number 7: Motivational and emotional influence on learning, motivation and emotions influence the quality of thinking and processes can enhance learning. |||| Teachers list as many sounds as they can identify through the use of sound waves of different things or occurrences found on the Internet. (Ex: door slamming, bird chirping, egg cracking.) || 1. Number page from 1-10.
 * Go through steps on how to make a digital story. || Encourage learning by teacher and student: Context of Learning: Learning is influenced by environmental factors, including culture, technology, and instructional practices. |||| Describe the software and explain how to download it on computer at school/home and walk through the screens of the digital story. || Show each step as you go through the slides of how to make a digital story. Explain what to do on each one. || 10 minutes ||
 * Watch as a digital story is made. || To watch a demonstration will help in making a personal one.
 * Have teachers make a digital story. || Teachers produce a digital story, in hopes they will be able to encourage students to make digital stories. From the American Psychological Association: Intrinsic motivation is stimulated by tasks of optimal novelty and difficulty, relevant to personal interests, and providing for personal choice and control. Students will be much more motivated to create and learn while using technology. In the science curriculum, students will be encouraged to take digital pictures of content being taught (Ex: Stages of a butterfly development) |||| Have teachers make a digital story if they brought their own digital pictures. If they did not, they are encouraged to find pictures from the web and produce one with those pictures. || 1. Teachers import pictures and arrange them in correct sequence.

**Staff Development Agenda Reflection**

Kim - My only suggestion on yours would be to perhaps provide either a handout or links on your website to additional photostory resources. This way they will have some resources easily available to them when they try to build their story. I think your first activity is a fantastic way to immediately engage the participants. -Tammy L

This looks great Kim! - Kim