Outline Created By: Nadia Kilgore

Storyboard and Google Images Discussion

Our goal is to create an imovie, which requires the following steps: making a story board, uploading the images, editing images, and adding sound in order to create the final project.

*I will be discussing how to create a storyboard and how to locate images
*The first step to this assignment will be to create a story board.

*In order to create a story board, students have read the text, and will not have an opportunity to be “hands on” and to draw sketches of specific parts of the book that will be useful in telling the story, “The Raven” in its entirety.

*The story board is an organization tool. It is a way for students to organize their thoughts, and visualize the sequence of images that will be searching online for, which will tell the story “The Raven.”

*Buckingham explains that keeping the production activities small is key, so students aren’t set up for failure in a difficult task. Organizing the images into a storyboard will help keep them on track, and also give students the control—they choose the images that they imagine when reading the story. According to Buckingham, his allows for exploration.

*Buckingham explains (page 81) a technique called “photoplay” which is when students are provided with images, and then asked to sequence them in a storyboard that will eventually be in a moving image sequence, such as our imovie.

*Our approach is similar, however rather than providing students with still images, and then asking them to create a storyboard, we will be asking them to use the story “The Raven” and pick key parts of the book to include in their sketches.

*Next, students will need to locate the images. Choosing the images for the storyboard can be determined by what images are evoked when reading the text, for example, Poe uses words such as midnight, chamber door, December, purple curtain, and of course, the image of a Raven.

*Using these key images, students will draw out the sketches, then go to google, then images and type in the image they wish to search for, for example, “Raven.”

*The search comes up with images of the celebrity, which is not what the search was for, so students narrow down their search by typing in “raven bird.”

Coronil and Gikandi on Globalization

Both Fernando Coronil and Simon Gikandi examine Globalization and the positive and negative effects of globalization. Although it is accepted that globalization will affect individuals, it is under debate whether globalization will have a positive or a negative effect on the lives on individuals in society. Globalization can be explained as the enhanced interconnectedness of cultures and societies that can be contributed to the expansion of technology and the enhancing means of communication and trade. Coronil explains a positive outlook that people use to approach the idea of globalization. It seems to be an "ideal" outcome, that "globalization offers the promise of a unified humanity no longer divided by East and West, North and South, Europe and its Others, the rich and the poor. As if they were underwritten by the desire to erase the scars of a conflictual past or to bring it to a harmonious end, these discourses set in motion the belief that the separate histories, geographies, and cultures that have divided humanity are now being brought together by the warm embrace of the globalization” (Coronil 352). Simon Gikandi explains in his article, "Globalization and the Claims of Postcoloniality" that "there no longerseems to be a clear relationship between cultural practices and localities" which means that cultural practices are no longer specific to the location where individuals live. I found both of these articles to be very interesting and informative, each describing a standpoint on the effects of globalization.

Media Literacy: Presentation Outline

19th Century American Literature and You Tube Video

19th Century American Literature

Edgar Allan Poe’s “A Tell-Tale Heart” was written in 1843. The tone of the story is very dark, and Poe creates suspense in the story. For example, he writes, “TRUE!—nervous—very, very dreadfully nervous I had been and am; but why will you say that I am mad? The disease had sharpened my senses --not destroyed --not dulled them” (Poe). The use of the words "nervous" and "disease" creates drama and gains the reader’s attention. The You-Tube video of Poe’s “A Tell-Tale Heart” is a recreation that would have never been possible in 1843, when Poe wrote the story. With the use of technology, the story is given new life to students whom may never have been exposed to Edgar Allan Poe’s mysterious and engaging writing. By using a video that can be accessed online, teachers can present students with Edgar Allan Poe’s story, paired with a video that is just as mysterious and psychologically thrilling. In this particular video, the actors and environment imitate the look and feel of the actors and environment that would have been in the story in 1843. This gives a realistic feel to the story being told, however, there are many modern looking videos that are just as appealing.




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