Initial Proposal:
This outline is to inform you what story I’ve chosen, what types of digital media I’ve looked into in order to tell this story, and also what sources I have found so far.
· This girl’s journey through middle school and high school
· She starts out stating her need of a cell phone as a 13 year old kid
· Theme: discovering the benefits and consequences technology use can bring both for her education and in her personal life
o She fights so hard for her cell phone but then realizes that there can be negative aspects
· As far as story line goes I’d start out with a brief introduction
· Introduction: short summary of “Miss C’s” story how it’s on a blog and why mobile technology is an important topic to discuss
· Use: there are so many reasons that she describes for needing a phone
o Safety, communication, social life (which for a 13 year old girl is life in general)
· Needs: social pressure of everyone else having a phone
· Wants: being able to text
o The data she reveals about how girls on AVERAGE text over 4000 times a year (more than 100/day)
· Benefits-Personal: she says that with her phone she’ll never be bored again, it brought her family together by making them discuss when and how technology use should be allowed with their family
· Benefits-Educational: describes how her friend gets to use her phone in class
· There were also negative parts of having a phone which she outlines as overuse, distraction, cheating, inappropriate use
· As far as multimodal literacy goes this girl is blogging, talking about getting a cell phone, Facebook, online polling options ect.
· Towards the end of this girl’s story she states that she is unable to multitask when it comes to texting in class and listening to the lecture this is different from Jenkin’s definition of multitasking, but I feel as though this girl (being a part of as she called it generation millennium) would easily be able to scan her environment and discern the relevant information.
· This girl definitely knows how to play with her technology I mean she started a blog just to prove to her parents that she needs a cell phone that was definitely a unique approach to problem solving.
· Transmedia navigation: she used many different resources that came from different media modes
· It took a while to figure out which type of digital story telling method I wanted to use to tell this young girl’s story. I started out by thinking I wanted to do a montage of images with a voice overlay, but then I was unsure whether I wanted to record myself for this project.
· I mainly used the cogdogroo site since there were so many digital stories already made and it was very interesting to see the same story told in so many ways
· I liked his cartoon depictions of the story I thought those might be a good way to represent Miss C’s story as well since it can be ‘chopped up’ into slides like that
· I liked that with photopeach you’re able to do a slide show with background music which helps to set the mood as you tell the story in text and images
· I really like prezi I feel like it is a modern powerpoint, but I wonder if it will be good for the type of story I’m trying to tell
· I think my favorites were slide share and prezi.
The site of Miss C's blogg:
Sources:
1. Jenkins, Henry. "Confronting the Challenges of Participatory Culture: Media Education for the 21st Century." Dr. Shutkin, 20 May 2011. Web. 31 May 2012
This source will help by comparing Jenkins' ideas of participatory culture to my own. At the same time I will display how Jenkins' definitions of the aspects of participatory culture can be seen with Miss C's actions.
2. News Release. "WLTZ 38 | Columbus Georgia Regional News & CommunitySpencer Student Earns Technology Recognition." Spencer Student Earns Technology Recognition. Muscogee County School District), 23 Jan. 2012. Web. 31 May 2012. <http://www.wltz.com/story/16580870/spencer-student-earns-technology-recognition>.
This site is a great advocate for technology's role in school. It will help to support Miss C's ideas behind the educational benefits of having her cell phone.
3. Creating Our Future: Students Speak Up about their Vision for 21st Century Learning. Speak Up 2009. National Findings. K-12 Students & Parents. March 2010. (Retrieved: 3 June 2010).
Web 31 May 2012.
This report has a lot of useful information on what students want out of school especially concerning technology. It also says how teachers and parents feel about technology use in the classroom which will be a good resource when trying to depict what Miss C’s parents reasons were for not allowing her a cell phone.
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