Week 4: Student Comprehension Task

These images were taken from Dust Echoes: Ancient Stories, New Voices web site. It is a great website with a variety of Aboriginal stories to choose from. Some of the stories may be too scary for some students and this needs to be considered.

You are able to get the background information on the traditional story and you are able to watch a picture animation of the story as well. This is a great example of a task you could ask your students to do, which would be educational and fun.

Ask the students to become knowledgeable about the story and then create a story summary using the images and the Inspiration program.

This requires the students to press the control and the print screen buttons at the same time. Then they will past the image in the paint program. Next, the students cut the content of the image they want. Next, they paste it on a new paint page. Finally, they save it as a JPEG and open it up in the Inspiration program. This example, was places in a circular formation because the story it was based on "Morning Star" is based on the circle of life. The pictures were number as well to clarify the order. More text could easily be added.

This type of task requires students to choose the important parts of a story and use computers. This task will help with story comprehension. Doing it, is a lot for fun than putting random sentences in order to reflect the proper sequence of events. I will use this in my future classroom.