Ning podcast: Digital Writers' Workshop

I viewed a podcast called Digital Writers' Workshop found at http://k12online.ning.com/video/digital-writers-workshop-1, which highlighted the experience of a class whose teacher led in a digital writers' workshop in which they created a digital story complete with plot, 3-D setting, and theme song. The students created the entire story in small groups which were decided based upon similar or compatible characteristics of the character that each student created. With that group, they created a script, theme song, 3-D setting, and put them all together into a digital video. The project promoted not only technological skill, but also collaborative work and story-writing skills, as well as artistic skills (e.g. music and set-building). The teacher talked about the process, specified which programs they used, and justified what levels of learning were being developed through each stage of the process.