Story+Presentation


 * Story Presentation Ideas**

{from Evelyn): To promote the idea of Story, I was wondering if we might consider kicking off the presentation with an interactive exercise. Have each teacher spent five minutes writing the story of how they ended up making teaching their career and/or ended up teaching at Oak Hall. This might have some amusing results. Just an idea.

I am also interesting in presenting something on Scott McCloud's book Understanding Comics,which is mentioned in the chapter. Remember I have that assignment where I ask kids to turn a complicated John Donne poem into a comic? Well, I was wondering if I could that assignment could have some application in other disciplines? Imagine any of Newton's Laws illustrated as a comic, a scene from Macbeth, the illustrated Preamble, etc. I planned to photocopy my original assignment, some student examples, and give a brief tour of the program Comic Life.

Also check out this website: http://thisibelieve.org/index.php What if students in different disciplines use "story" to articulate their personal philosophy. I believe in the power of art. I believe in the power of math.

Other Ideas?

(from Lucinda): I like your idea about having each teacher spend a few minutes writing their own story, and I found something along those lines on one of Daniel Pink's blogs or something like that. The idea was called "The Six Word Memoir." The idea is to tell your story in only six words in five minutes or less. Some interesting examples are: **"Found true love. Married someone else." "Did what I was supposed to do." and "Unsure, but you would never know."** There was also a similar activity on writing four word movie reviews. I thought these two ideas would be great to use in the classroom. I also think it would be a good idea to let other departments know how they can use STORY in their own disciplines. I have ideas for that if anyone is interested. I also came across a website that sends out one story every 3 weeks to subscribers, and it's sent in a small pocket-sized format. Also, to go along with the web 2.0 technologies, how about including digital storytelling in our presentations?

(from Evelyn): I LOVE the idea of the six-word memoir! I think we should do that to begin our presentation! I also really liked the story website. I really think we should do something with digital storytelling! Lots of teachers are already playing with podcasts and youtube, so digital storytelling is the next obvious step. I think it would be cool as well to create packets of all the ideas we come up with to distribute to the whole faculty or to make everything available online. (from Lucinda) I agree. I have already started a PowerPoint for our presentation and have been collecting ideas to share with colleagues on how they can use STORY no matter what subject they teach.