Filming The Video Social Story

Today, we are working in groups to produce a high quality social story that we will be developing from scratch to help a specific child that would be kept in mind. Firstly, together, Pauline, Theresa, and I identified the student who would be a good candidate for using a social story to shape behavior. Then, we identified his/her background, behavior description, and behavior needing to be shaped, and together we thought out and wrote an appropriate IPP annual goal. We kept in mind that even though this social story is developed for a particular student, it would be helpful for many other students who are facing similar issues. After that, we were trying to align the goal with the scripts. Then, after identifying the clips to be filmed, we went filming, editing, cropping, and adding texts or narrations. Although it is only a few minutes long video social story, it required a lot of working and filtering, but with team collaborative efforts, we were able to finish in the time limit given.

This is now my second video social story in this summer. Though it is not perfect and if I would have more time to work on it, I would try to polish it; it was such an amazing learning experience that resulted in a nice and workable social story.
Once we have developed the skills we can stretch the approach of social stories to be utilized with tremendous applications in a variety of school settings with issues such as behavior shaping, ethics, empathy with others, etc.

Today, I realized how much work is behind the short and nice social stories. However, it was very interesting and informative learning experience.