Poll Your Thoughts

Take a minute to let the digital story sink in. Now I bet that wasn't the mystery person you were thinking of! Ok minute is up, now take another to leave your feedback.

Check out this post to learn more about using this digital story in the classroom or to get more information about creating surveys (like this one) with Google docs.

Can you guess who this is about?

Below is my digital story that is based on the works of the late radio personality, Paul Harvey Jr. Paul Harvey was well known for a series titled, "The Rest of the Story." Many of his stories from this series can be found and downloaded including here, from Torrentz. The most extensive list I have been able to find is the Paul Harvey Archives, but as of this post the archives have been taken down. I was introduced to these stories recently and thought that they could be used in numerous ways in the classroom.

The stories tell the unknown tales of faces from history and of famous actors. In my work in remedial reading, students need to understand story structure and this story, along with the rest in the series, is a great depiction of cause-and-effect. I also believe it will be interesting for students to understand how the event portrayed in this digital story, changed this person's life, and the lives of many, still to this day.

The "Rest of the Story" series will will keep you guessing, see if you can figure out who this story is about:



Unfortunately, after uploading the video it lost some of its timing and the pictures and narration got a little off track. This was a bit frustrating after taking so much time to play around with the timeline but I didn't think it was too distracting.

Please leave any constructive feedback but be sure to comment to let me know what use you see for this in your own classroom.