Storyboard and TPACK Questions

For our digital storytelling activity, we chose the poem "Breakfast in Bed" by Kenn Nesbitt. It is a humorous and fun poem, and the story will depict pictures of the different scenes.

• CONTENT: We are using a poem that has rhyme at the end of each line--the rhyme scheme is aabbccdd...and so forth. From this, student's will learn about rhyme and the sounds that different words make. Also, the poem uses some creative vocabulary, so student's will see the words with the pictures so that their literacy will be improved. Overall, our content is largely literacy and word focused, as we are using a poem.
• PEDAGOGY: Hearing the story read aloud will strengthen student's listening abilities, a big part of their literacy. The pedagogy used will be the storybook itself, and seeing the pictures as well as hearing it read aloud which appeals to auditory and visual learners.
  
• TECHNOLOGY: We will be using PhotoStory3 to create our digital storybook, which will help our story come to life technologically. We will create the story using audio, pictures from the web, and music in the background. This technology is a perfect fit for the pedagogy of reading the story aloud because it allows students to be able to go back and listen to it again and again. This technology fits with the content because it allows students to hear the rhyme and see the vocabulary words.