Station 1

Step 1 - Meet the Problem & Task

Problem

A technology-challenged, famed book author needs help summarizing key story elements from one of her stories for English Language Learners (ELLs). These illustrated summaries are meant to quickly tell the story using simpler vocabulary and more pictures.

This summary re-telling will provide the necessary schema or structure that ELL students need to have PRIOR to reading the full story. Help the author summarize the story into bite-sized elements and share it as an animated GIF.

Task

Create an animated GIF summarizing in simple words and rich images a story of your choosing. Use the animated GIF tools to summarize a story your team is familiar with OR read one of the stories online at a website below:

StoryJumper - richly illustrated ebooks
Gutenberg Press

Some ideas:

Create a series of slides in Google Slides or Powerpoint illustrating a story, then put them into Gifmaker.me
Create story squares using Book Creator, Pixton, or Storybird then save screencaptures of each page to animate
Microsoft Paint or Paint 3D

Step 2 - Create the Animated GIF

Create the story panels for each aspect of the story you wish to summarize or illustrate
Save the pictures, or take screenshots of the pictures, then save them
Put them into GIFMaker.me website to create your animated GIF
Save the GIFMaker.me creation to your device

Step 3 - Turn In Your Project Creation

Ready to share your animated GIF?

Open the padlet and add the animated GIF.

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