First Visit- October 2, 2013
The first visit went really well. I met with my student,
Cameron, and got to know him a little. I found out that he was a new student
this year and got switched to this school because of a bus route. The first
day, he got to just play with MyCreate and we went around the school and took
different pictures of whatever he wanted. We then watched the 25 picture video
together and I told him next time we would think of a story to put together so to start thinking about what he would want to write a story about within the next week. I told him that we would be working with three other 3rd graders to tell another story and using lego's to make a video of it. He seemed to have a lot of fun during this visit and I could tell he was excited about the project.
Second Visit- October 9, 2013
On the second visit, we made up a story together using the
stuffed animals in the room. We using the Cat in the Hat stuffed animal, Dora stuffed doll and a stuffed Spiderman doll. I wrote out a story and he wrote out a story and
we read them to each other and combined our stories together. We placed the
stuffed animals in different positions to tell the story and moved them around
about 15 times to tell the story. I would take some pictures and let him take some as well but made sure they were perfect so they would look good in the video. I explained why they had to be perfect so that it would look like they were actually moving in the video. Now, I asked Cameron if he used the writing process when he was
writing his story. I told him that when we meet with the group we would be using it to put our story together. At the end we watched the movie in slow motion
together and I told him the next time we would come together we would be with
everyone else to try to come up with a story together.
Third Visit- October 23, 2013
On the third visit, we met all together with all the other groups. Here is where the other HPU students and I explained what StoryStarters were and how we would be using it with this project. This meeting was basically to get them to know each other and start thinking of ideas of what they would want to make a story about. Some of the time they were fooling around but for the most part we got to talk
about inventions and ideas they had for their stories and told them what an invention is defined as and what they would want to invent for the story. They all seemed very excited and I can’t wait
for what they think of for the next time we visit.
Fourth Visit- October 30, 2013
On the fourth visit, we all met together as a group and started coming up with ideas about what invention we wanted to make using the legos and continue the drafting process. The students had some great idea's. One little girl came up with a candy building and another little girl had the idea of a cotton candy machine. My student came up with a candy microwave where you press a button the candy comes out and another little boy came up with a talking building. We voted and decided we would put Cameron's idea and the other little boys idea together to make a talking building and a candy microwave. We started a rough draft of the story by making a beginning, middle and end of a story that could take place. They all took notes on what we could possibly tell in the story. At the end, they were all very excited about putting the story together with the lego's the next few weeks.
Fifth Visit- November 6, 2013
On the fifth visit, we all met and let them try to make what they think a candy microwave and a talking building would look like. At one point two of them were working on the candy microwave and the other two were working on the talking building but towards the end they were all working on both of the inventions together. They each used their own base plate to create each invention they wanted to
create. One boy came up with the idea of having a person being lost and the talking building would give them directions of where to go. They were able to come up with these ideas as they were building the lego creations. Then, we all came up with having the talking building telling the person lost how to get to the store with the candy microwave and wrote that in the story boxes.
Last Visit- November 15, 2013
We tried going to the school another week to work on putting the story together with the lego's but they had an assembly going on so we weren't able to do that, but the last visit went really well when they came to us at High Point. It was so funny trying to record the story but at the end it came out great. We spent the first hour or so building the building and story with the candy microwave. We decided to add in some special features like a park and a person working in the candy microwave store to help him get what the person needed when he found his way to the store. When we did the recording it worked out because only three of the students from our group came to the last visit so one person was the talking building, one was the person that was lost and the other was the person working in the candy store. Before we did the recording, we positioned the person lost in the MyCreate app to take the pictures of what is going on in the story to make the stop motion video and it came out really well. We made sure to leave time and slow it down between the person stopping at the building and moving on to the candy store to fit the conversation in while recording it. When it came time to record it was hard for them to know when to say their lines in the right part of the story so as I played the story, recording it at the same time, I pointed at Mel when she should tap each student to say their lines in the story. It took us a couple tries but it finally worked and we successfully recorded the dialogue at the same time as when the story was going on. It looked awesome!
Fourth Visit- October 30, 2013
On the fourth visit, we all met together as a group and started coming up with ideas about what invention we wanted to make using the legos and continue the drafting process. The students had some great idea's. One little girl came up with a candy building and another little girl had the idea of a cotton candy machine. My student came up with a candy microwave where you press a button the candy comes out and another little boy came up with a talking building. We voted and decided we would put Cameron's idea and the other little boys idea together to make a talking building and a candy microwave. We started a rough draft of the story by making a beginning, middle and end of a story that could take place. They all took notes on what we could possibly tell in the story. At the end, they were all very excited about putting the story together with the lego's the next few weeks.
Fifth Visit- November 6, 2013
On the fifth visit, we all met and let them try to make what they think a candy microwave and a talking building would look like. At one point two of them were working on the candy microwave and the other two were working on the talking building but towards the end they were all working on both of the inventions together. They each used their own base plate to create each invention they wanted to
Last Visit- November 15, 2013
We tried going to the school another week to work on putting the story together with the lego's but they had an assembly going on so we weren't able to do that, but the last visit went really well when they came to us at High Point. It was so funny trying to record the story but at the end it came out great. We spent the first hour or so building the building and story with the candy microwave. We decided to add in some special features like a park and a person working in the candy microwave store to help him get what the person needed when he found his way to the store. When we did the recording it worked out because only three of the students from our group came to the last visit so one person was the talking building, one was the person that was lost and the other was the person working in the candy store. Before we did the recording, we positioned the person lost in the MyCreate app to take the pictures of what is going on in the story to make the stop motion video and it came out really well. We made sure to leave time and slow it down between the person stopping at the building and moving on to the candy store to fit the conversation in while recording it. When it came time to record it was hard for them to know when to say their lines in the right part of the story so as I played the story, recording it at the same time, I pointed at Mel when she should tap each student to say their lines in the story. It took us a couple tries but it finally worked and we successfully recorded the dialogue at the same time as when the story was going on. It looked awesome!
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