Digital Story 1

What? This week we learned what Digital Stories are. They are short films that tell a story. It now our job to create one for our class.

So What? As a teacher I can use digital stories as an interesting way to teach my students something. As a student I can learn to create something expressive to help my future students. As a colleague my fellow colleagues can use my stories and example to help their students. I can use digital stories in my other classes to prove that I have a great way to hook my students into a certain subject.

I am very excited to try out this new technology because I have never made a digital story before. I personally love movies so I know as a student I would have really gained from this. I can really capture my students and fellow colleagues by expressing the subject I am going to teach through the art of film making.

Now What? My future students will an emotional view of our next topic in class. I want them to be interested in learning so that they will open their minds to what I am going to teach them. Once I have their attention, which hopefully the digital story will do, I am really get them involved in learning.

I think this will make me a better teacher because I am teaching everyone because a digital story will be helpful to visual and oral learners. I could also have my students make a digital story to prove that they really understand the subject and they can teach their fellow students. My colleagues and my department will how dedicated I am to teaching and they will hopefully follow my suit.

Video Reflection: This video was on a digital story of Nasa. I thought whoever made it did an excellent job. It was very well proportioned. There was enough narration and sound clips. It was also very imformative! I can't wait to try one out!