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Autograph Story

Using a digital camera, students will take pictures of a famous person (a classmate) and add it to their stories about getting that person's autograph.

Objectives

  • Students will write a narrative essay.
  • Students will take pictures using a digital camera.

Procedure

  • Have students write a narrative essay about a time when they met a famous person (who is one of their classmates) and asked for the person's autograph.
  • Have students publish their final draft using a word processing program.
  • Have students take a picture of the "famous person" and of the person's autograph using a digital camera.
  • Download pictures and import them into each student's published story.

Sunshine State Standards

  • LA.B.1.2.1
  • LA.B.1.2.2
  • LA.B.1.2.3
  • LA.D.2.2.4
  • VA.A.1.2.3
  • VA.B.1.2.2

NETS Profiles for Technology Literate Students

  • Use keyboards and other common input and output devices (including adaptive devices when necessary) efficiently and effectively.
  • Use general purpose productivity tools and peripherals to support personal productivity, remediate skill deficits, and facilitate learning throughout the curriculum.
  • Use technology tools (e.g., multimedia authoring, presentation, Web tools, digital cameras, scanners) for individual and collaborative writing, communication, and publishing activities to create knowledge products for audiences inside and outside the classroom.

Materials

  • A word processing program
  • Digital Camera

Alternatives/Extensions

  • This technique can be used with any writing project. Students become motivated to write when you add the picutres.


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