24 February - Digital Stories

What?
Last week we learned about digital stories and the advantages it has in a classroom.
So What?
This is a great tool that I can use in my classroom that the students would really love. It is such a great tool to help students feel the emotion behind the story. The audio and visual components provide an extraordinary experience compared to simply reading a transcript. It is a great tool that I can use in college today. It is a fun way to present a subject to the class, making it much more interesting. I know digital stories are hard to do, but once I get it down it shouldn't be too hard. It is great to learn about this technology today so that we are prepared for when we get into our own classrooms.
Now What?
Digital stories can be such a fun assignment that I can assign to my students to do. I could have them research on a certain subject and then put a digital story together and present it to the class. Students will benefit with many skills just by learning to record their stories and view them afterward. Students will be able to remember this information a lot easier and it makes it a lot more fun to learn when something like this is involved. Students will be able to learn information within a span of a few minutes more than the most observant reader could grasp in the course of a novel. Digital stories are such a fun tool that I will definitely be incorporating into my own classroom.