This week we began learning about Digital Stories. We also spent time learning about story boarding and how we can do that for our own digital story.
So What?Digital Stories are an amazing way to get students excited about a topic that they are required to learn about. They are powerful emotional ways to connect students to the information that they will be learning. Story boarding is actually useful in my life right now as well as in the future. It is a great pre-production step. It is a visual way to set up what I will be doing with a task. Whether that is making a vidcast/poscast or creating a lesson plan, knowing the basic outline will make the task so much easier.
Now What? Digital stories are an amazing resource. Once you create one, especially if it is about history, it will be useful for years to come. If I use them collaboratively I will only have to create a couple a year, and by sharing with colleagues I will have even more to use with my students. It is said that a picture is worth a thousand words, and when combined with powerful music that picture is worth even more. Our students are tech junkies. They have grown up in a time where technology is readily available constantly. Their attention spans are not the greatest because of this, and digital stories are a way of taking that technology they love and using it to teach them. I can just see students loving these videos, and I can also see them loving creating them. It is unbelievable what kids can do with technology these days, and I cannot wait to give them an assignment and see what they come up with. Technology can either be our biggest downfall or asset as teachers, and I believe that using digital stories will help technology become on asset of mine.
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