This is my first time working with social stories, and overall it was a great outcome! From the More article, "Digital stories allow teachers to target culturally appropriate skills and create a unique opportunity to involve students and families in the creation process." This is a great way for families to interact with the school and their children. Digital stories can guide a student inside of the classroom and outside. Digital stories can help guide students in the right direction when situations or events occur. These stories can help prepared students ahead of time when they will be attending an event. I see nothing but positive outcomes from the story. Teachers or parents can include: where they will be going, what they are going there for, who will be there, how they should act there, and why they are going there. This is a great tool for field trips for the students to understand what will be going on and how they should behave. The story will be great for the students to get a visual and audio tour of what will be going on. From the Healing Threshold website, "The idea is that the child rehearses the story ahead of time, with an adult. Then, when the situation actually happens, the child can use the story to help guide his or her behavior." When creating a story it can be from many aspects of events that happen in the bathroom, lunch room, or even the gymnasium.
When I created my digital story, everything went well in the beginning. After I was finished my computer was not detecting a microphone, and i felt in a bind. My work schedule has been a little crazy so I really have to plan my time when I can work on things. I was ahead of the game until I did not know what to do about my voice software. I tried to record and upload from my phone and that did not work. My second computer which is my laptop has been acting up and has to be plugged in a certain way to turn on, it does not keep a charge. Finally after a few hours of playing around with it turning off and on, my laptop let me record my voice. My second issue was with uploading to you tube. I was saving the file wrong, which Dr. Budin explained how to save it the correct way. After all that, everything was fine. The program was easy to use, I think it would be a great tool in the classroom for the students to create their own. When working in a classroom, the students will have access to everything correctly on the computer and a teacher to guide them when they get stuck. The challenge I faced was no one was around to assist me, but once I was assisted things were fine. I selected my topic of eating at the dinner table because I think a lot of children who are out at a restaurant sometimes do not know how to behave. My boss owns four restaurants, and when his brothers children come in there, they run around and play and have no care in the world. But when I have taken them out to another restaurant they think and act the same way when that is not appropriate.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JkjhKBqgRVQ
I'm glad you got the kinks out. The topic is important and you found some cute pictures-- I especially liked the pictre symbol for interrupting. Make sure that all images you use are open to the public (I think some weren't).
ReplyDeleteOtherwise, nic job.
Hi Justine!
ReplyDeleteI loved the topic of your social story! Whenever my family and I go out, we are always perturbed when individuals aren't parenting their children, and let them run wild. I think you did a great job with making the story, your voice-over was paced well, and the pictures were cute! I'm glad you were able to get it to work, mine had issues too!
Justine,
ReplyDeleteYour social story was a great one, that was relevant in sharing with young children. I enjoyed the multiple pictures you used, and the use of multicultural children within your photos. It's always important to teach children how to behave while eating, with the incorporation of using their manners. I really liked how you also incorporated the need for children to learn how to become self-sufficient within learning how to order for themselves. Good job with this story. It will be a very effective tool for students to follow!
Justine,
ReplyDeleteYour social story was a great one, that was relevant in sharing with young children. I enjoyed the multiple pictures you used, and the use of multicultural children within your photos. It's always important to teach children how to behave while eating, with the incorporation of using their manners. I really liked how you also incorporated the need for children to learn how to become self-sufficient within learning how to order for themselves. Good job with this story. It will be a very effective tool for students to follow!