Story-writing - Nine More Dramatised Clips

Am I missing something? Surely a programme like ths is intended to be watched as separate bits - otherwise what's the point?
I agree though - I'm struggling to find out how!

Yes, these Story Starters are intended to be used separately. Log in and download the programme, then use movie editing software (free with most operating systems) to edit them.
You can find out more about downloading videos and editing videos in our help section.
Regards,
Luke Harvey, Teachers TV Community Producer

Media Player has an amazing pause button

These clips are really lovely and I think they will suit Key Stage 1 very well. I do feel that they are a little more prescriptive than the first set of story starters - it seems to me that the music is quite heavy in these, whereas the first collection use more sound effects that music pieces. My year 3 lower ability literacy group have produced some fabulous creative writing from the first story openers, which I will use again. I Would probably use the new set in the first part of the year (especially as we have Charlotte's Web as our topic!) but prefer the others to elicit more varied ideas.

I will use these to teach story writing to my year 6. Thanks.

The story starters will be very useful, I will use them with a year 2/3 class to supporting the unit stories with familiar settings I am currently teaching.

Steven - thanks for this very helpful piece of work - it's much appreciated. If you have ideas for more Story Starts, or Lesson Starts in Maths, Science or other subjects, do get in touch. Paul

I'm currently looking at both sets of story starts form teachers TV to see how they fit into the new Framework.
If you don't have video editing software, or are not sure how to use it, all you need to know is the timings for each film.
The following may help you:
Story Starts for Teachers TV

http://www.teachers.tv/video/13826


Order Time Film Other
1 2.15 Jewellery shop
2 3.53 Beach scene Y1 Stories with Familiar Settings
3 4.27 Green figure in woods
4 5.35 Dinosaur Museum
5 8.15 Science lab
6 10.20 Scary Discovery in Woods
7 11.55 Church and Graveyard scene


http://www.teachers.tv/video/23316

Order Time Film Other
1 0:50 Fishing
2 1:41 Artist Animation
3 2:52 Tall Ships and Treasure
4 4:44 The Basement
5 6:45 Crystal Ball
6 8:38 Go to Your Room! Y1 Stories with Familiar Settings
7 9:53 Pig On the Run
8 11:34 The Juggler
9 12:33 Kite Flying

I separated the first story starts ( I think there were 7 ) fairly successfully using Movie maker. However, I find that the ( tory starts don't `break' evenly - especially numbers 2 and 3. Anyone else have the same problem ? Otherwise, a briliant idea that I'm sure I will use. It would be great to have an index at the beginning or end though, with the titles and different curriculum relevances on them.

Hello Everyone,

I am a Technology Coordinator [Years 1 to 8] in Ontario, Canada and I have managed to download and "split" 17 of the amazing "Available Light" Story Start productions into separate files.

All the clips are in the .mov file format and can be played in the free Quicktime player.

If you would like to e-mail me, I would be happy to assist you in obtaining these clips. The catch is, please let me know how you are using the story starts in your classroom!

Hope to hear from you.

Kent Manning
kmanning@hpedsb.on.ca

Brilliant - I will definately use these as story starters with my year 3/4 class :)