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Telling Stories with Words and Digital Photography
    Everyone loves to take pictures!  At Expo this year, all the fifth and sixth graders participated in a project which combined work on writing skills, understanding cultural differences, and digital photography.  In Room 209, we spent January, 2008 thinking about the connection between photography and storytelling.

•  We read picture book examples where photographs or paintings helped tell a story.

•  Speakers from the International Center of Minnesota presented aspects of their culture and family in a series of classroom visits to Expo. Chelsea Wu visited our classroom and shared stories about her life in Taiwan.  Click here to read her piece about her piano lessons.

•  We interviewed professional photojournalist Kevin Rivoli at his home in upstate New York, using Skype communication software.  He is creating a book and traveling exhibition which relates his photographs of everyday life to the paintings of Norman Rockwell.  He told us that good photographers find their subjects through patience, by finding a good setting and waiting to see what happens in it. Click here to see his photographs.

•  Room 209 students used digital cameras to photograph their own routines and rituals, then added the photos to their writer's notebooks. Students chose one of the photos and used the writing process to create a published story based on the image.  Click on student names in the sidebar to read their pieces.

•  Students used Scratch computer programming software to make a slideshow of several of their photographs.  This included learning how to program transitions between slides and adding voice-over commentary.  These projects will be posted at http://scratch.mit.edu/users/room209 by early March.

This project was supported by a grant from Ecolab's Vision for Learning program.




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