Internship+Objective+2





"I will work collaboratively with a teacher and her classes with digital storytelling."**
 * Internship Objective 2 (FEAP 12)


 * Description of activities:**
 * During the first half of my internship, I spoke to Ms. Workman about her upcoming unit on the Holocaust. I offered to gather some Holocaust web resources for her 8th grade language arts students for an upcoming project during the 4th term. She wanted each student to track a specific Holocaust victim and present their story in Photo Story 3. So I created a Word document containing web resources that provided some photos and sufficient individual stories for her students. Although the actual project was weeks away, she did share those resources immediately with her students and reported back to me that they were what she wanted.
 * Ms. Downs, a UCF intern under Mrs. House's direction, planned to bring her 6th grade students to the library to work on their Photo Story 3 projects. This project was designed to show a student's understanding of plot elements (rising action, climax, resolution, etc.) During the last three days I was there, these classes met in the library and began putting pictures and music into their projects. I felt good about being able to set up 14 laptops for students and to do some troubleshooting when students had difficulty.


 * Objective satisfactorily met.** I wish I had been there for the remainder of Ms. Downs' classes time in the library. I think it would have been good to see the whole project from start to finish. I feel I barely scratched the surface with the software and how it could be used by students. I can see why some teachers are phasing out PowerPoint in favor of Photo Story. Last of all, Ms. Downs did send me two of the finished projects which I did appreciate.

Julie is so delightful to work with that the teachers were happy to receive her input, collaborated with her on several sections of the project, and appreciated her help throughout. The students were especially happy to have Julie offer suggestions and help them with technificulties as they popped up.
 * Comments from Mrs. Evelyn regarding Mrs. Horrocks' completion and assessment of the objective:**


 * My thoughts:** During my brief stay (16 school days) I saw three different teachers use the media center for Photo Story projects. I think this speaks so well of Mrs. Evelyn and her willingness to collaborate with teachers.