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OutComes
• Understand the Power of Story for Learning, Thinking and Communicating • Defining TYPES of Communication • Distinguish between Documentaries / Summary Reports • Distinguish between Docu-Dramas / Short Stories • Distinguish between Documentaries / Docu-Dramas • Utilizing the Seven Steps and Four StoryMaking Phases for Crafting ALL Multi-Media • Developing Reasoning / Thinking Questions • Coaching Rigorous Content • Defining / Applying the //Take Six Elements of Good Storytelling// • Developing the Craftsmanship of Communication: Mixing Media into "Eluminated" Understandings • Coaching "Performing" VoiceOvers • Master Audio-Editing (Audacity) • Making Classroom Connections with Digital Storytelling

Agenda Topics
• Opening • Topic: TYPES of Communication • Tools: Scoring Guides for Documentaries / Docudramas / Summary Reports • Learning Lab ONE: Viewing Documentaries with Scoring Guides - What worked? What could work better? • Group Process: Debriefing • Topic: DocuDramas verses Short Stories • Topic: The Journey of Making Docu-Dramas • Using Seven Steps and Four StoryMaking Phases • Developing Reason/Thinking Questions • Concept Mapping: Transitioning from Research to Narrative Writing • Process: Group Mapping of KEY Ideas • Topic: Take Six- Elements of Good Storytelling • Process: Group Ranking of Take Six • Topic: Dynamic Openings/ Closing or NOT? • Group Process: Coaching a Narrative for //Take Six// AND RIGOR • Learning Lab TWO: Viewing Docudramas - PMI Coding for //Take Six: Elements of Good Storytelling// • Reviewing for Rigor or NOT? • Topic: Developing Craftsmanship of Communication • Outcomes / Purposes for Storyboarding • Learning Lab THREE: StoryBoarding - Ready or NOT? • Learning Lab FOUR: Coaching "Performing" VoiceOvers • Learning Lab FIVE: Mastering Audio-Editing - Audacity • Closing / Debriefing

Links to Tools Used
• Real-Time Collaborative Writing - iEtherpad.com • Micro-blogging / Back channeling - TodaysMeeting • Polling ONE - PollEverywhere.com • Polling TWO - PollEverywhere.com