Digital+Storybook

Digital Storybook
= media type="custom" key="10669400" = In this project, your challenge is to write your own book. For your story topic, you will pick something that will fit into one of the six Character Counts pillars of **Trustworthiness**, **Respect**, **Responsibility**, **Fairness**, **Caring**, and **Citizenship**. Think of current topics that are important to kids, especially younger kids. If you choose to write a story on bullying, for example, tie that into the pillar of Caring. Your story should have some sort of resolution or ending. It could also have a moral. Think about how popular children's books are structured to help you with yours.

Your story needs to include:

 * Text
 * Illustrations
 * Narration
 * Interactive Book (Keynote)

At the culmination of this project:

 * Share your storybooks with Olde Sawmill Elementary students
 * Participate in an Authors' Panel for the elementary students via Skype or iChat.

Your first step is to write your whole story. Use the guidelines above. You can type your story on Pages. Be sure to separate your writing somehow so that you know what text will be on each page. Include proper punctuation for quotes. Use descriptive words. Use proper grammar, spelling, capitalization, and punctuation. Your story should be in its final form before you begin the next step in this module.
 * 1. Write the Story**

These videos will guide you through creating your own characters using Pages, taking a screen capture, changing the pose, and taking another screen capture.
 * 2. Illustrations**

This video will guide you through the process of using GarageBand to record the narration that will be used in your Digital Storybook.
 * 3. Record Narration**

This video will guide you through the process of setting up the framework for your digital storybook in Keynote.
 * 4. Set up Storybook Framework**

This video will guide you through the process of adding text, images, navigation buttons, and narration to your storybook. When you are finished, you will save this file in such a way that it will open in "play" mode. If you typed up your story on a separate document, you just have to copy and paste the text from your Pages file to the text boxes in your Keynote storybook.
 * 5. Put it all Together**

Here are some finished samples of digital storybooks. You will need Keynote to view these projects.
 * Examples**

Sample Illustration made with using the advanced drawing tools in Pages (blank canvas).