Digital Storytelling

The Gift of a Cow Tail

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A West African Tale

A great warrior did not return from the hunt. His family gave him up for dead, all except his youngest child who each day would ask, "Where is my father? Where is my father?"

The child's older

brothers, who were magicians, finally went forth to find him.

They came upon his broken spear and a pile of bones.

The first son assembled the bones into a skeleton; the second son put flesh upon the bones; the third son breathed life into the flesh.

The warrior arose

and walked into the village where there was great celebration.

He said, "I will give a fine gift to the one who has brought me back to life."

Each one of his sons cried out,

"Give it to me, for I have done the most."

"I will give the gift to my youngest child," said the warrior. "For it is this child who saved my life. A man is never truly dead until he is forgotten!"

The End

Folk Tale ProjectPurpose: Learn several computer skills including:

PowerPoint basics, cut and paste, navigating a web page, using clip art, select all, inserting slides, saving to flash drive and presenting to the class, and editing

a selection.

Create a blank PowerPoint slide and Minimize it.

Folk Tale Project

Go to the website below and read four (4) of the stories.

http://www.storyarts.org/library/nutshell/index.html

After you have read the four stories, choose one to use as your project.

Select the story by clicking and dragging your cursor from the beginning to the end of the story. Once it is selected, go to the toolbar and under “Edit, Select “Copy””

Now return to your PowerPoint and click on the slide you created.

Under “Edit” this time select “Paste” and the story will appear on the slide.

(If the lettering is too big, click on it and choose Control + A to select it all. Then you can choose the font size that will fit.)

Now separate the story into at least four parts and paste each part on a separate slide.

(To create a new slide, go to the toolbar and select “Insert New Slide”)

Once you have pasted the story on the pages, go to clip art or to the internet and find illustrations to help tell your story and paste them in. Create a beginning and ending page for your story.

Finally, save your story to a flash drive and read it as you show it to the class on the Promethean.