Digital Story Activity

Activity: Tell Me About You

For: Adult ESL students at the beginner to intermediate levels
Helps build: Reading and writing skills, computer skills, typing

1. Tell students that you want to learn more about their lives, the languages they speak and their families.
2. Tell students that they will create a book about themselves. The book will be online, and they should write at least four pages.
3. Show students the teacher story example: http://storybird.com/books/tell-me-about-you-a-story-about-my-life/?token=9axaqf9mzh
4. Send students to http://www.storybird.com
5. Tell students that they must create a username and password first by registering.
6. Direct students to the CREATE tab after registering and choose a background. After choosing a background, create your story! Answer the following questions per page.

Cover page: Tell Me About You: A story about my life
Page 1: Where do you live in Flagstaff?
Page 2: How many siblings do you have?
Page 3: What is your native language? Tell us something in your native language.
Page 4: What is your dream job?
Fin page: The end.

7. After students have created their stories, instruct them to publish and e-mail the links to you and then have three students volunteer to present their stories to the class.

• My digital story activity, create a story about your life:

http://storybird.com/books/tell-me-about-you-a-story-about-my-life/?token=9axaqf9mzh