Our+Story

= OUR STORY =

**INTRODUCTION** This web 2.0 tool is a site that allows you to keep your family and friends updated on your every day life. You can upload stories, pictures and videos to your page. This site is neat in where you can view your stories in a timeline. With each story that you create, you can choose to upload pictures and videos. You can also choose to make the story public, private, or share them with you friends and family that also have an account with ourstory.com. The site also asks you at the end of every created story if you would like to e-mail your story with a short message attached. This is a nice feature, because all of your friends and family may not have an account. This web 2.0 tool is free and people can sign up just to view pages.

**INTEGRATING OUR STORY INTO THE CLASSROOM**

PARENT INVOLVEMENT
 * When thinking about how I would incorporate this into my classroom, several things come to mind. This would be a great way to keep parents informed about what is going on in their child's classroom. At the end of the day, I could write a story about how the day went and the activities that there students participated in that day. I could also note the homework assigned that night and what the next day will look like. Parents wouldn't necessarily have to have their own page, but just sign up to view my page.

STUDENT PROJECTS
 * 1) This would be a great way for students to introduce themselves to their class at the beginning of the year and way to keep the class updated on any changes and exciting things going on in their life. Students first page would be their introduction of themselves, while their next pages would be weekly recaps of went on in their life that week. This could include their struggles, achievements, and any questions they may have about the class.
 * 2) Students could also use this as a way to keep journal entries. I am a firm believer that students need time each day to be able to just write with no prompt. This cold be a nightly thing that they do and a way for me to get to know that student.
 * 3) Students could use this site to set up a timeline in history. Given a time period and and a subject, they could create a timeline project using this tool. It would be very neat for the students to present their timeline project using this site. No more wasted poster boards and messy markers. Hello to organized and creative thinking.

EXAMPLE I went ahead and signed up for a free account with ourstory.com. I decided that right now I would use the page to inform my family and friends on my busy and exciting life. I created some stories about the trips that my boyfriend and I have take over the past year. This is just something i did to test the site and see how the site could be used and the different features that it offered. [|OUR STORY]

Danielle Deno