Multimedia Storytelling with Music and Pictures

Reviewed by Melissa Ramirez

Multimedia Storytelling with Music and Pictures is a site hosted by the Public Broadcasting Service (PBS). The author of this document is Tracy Trowbridge, a former school teacher who now works with teachers integrating technology into the curriculum. She holds a master's degree in Learning, Design, and Technology from Stanford's school of education. This document is a lesson plan on multimedia storytelling with 6-12 graders. The intended audience is teachers of 6-12 grade. It contains very useful links to create iMovies and tutorials that teachers and students will find very beneficial. The lesson also includes the videotape American Family to look at various storytelling techniques. I would recommend this document because it tells you exactly what you can do and it is very easy to follow.

Reviewed by Pamela West

This site is a link on the PBS website; therefore, it is fairly credible. The PBS website is well-known in education and in media. this particular link contains a multimedia lesson plan written by Tracy Trowbridge. this lesson is designed to be used with middle school and high school students. The goal of the lesson is to strengthen a student's communication skills through storytelling. The lesson proposes that students use the art of storytelling with various production technologies to create the final project. This lesson will take the better part of two weeks. The plan is very well written and easy to follow. Tracy has been very thorough in her outline and instructions. This is an excellent idea for students that are technologically savvy already. this will give them a project to stretch their skills to a new dimension. Tracy gives several production project ideas and links to a few different types of software beyond the basic power point or publisher. All in all this is a very good lesson and I would be interested in looking through the other lesson plan on PBS now that I know they are available.