My group chose to create a Prezi to tell our story. Again, I think it is awesome to work in a group online and never leave the house. It is so hard for me to believe that we can all work on and edit the same project from our own home. The nice thing about working with a group is that you get help and you are all working for the same grade so you all put in your best effort.
I first learned about digital story telling last year through Tracy, the tech coach. My students, one small group at a time, made a digital story every week last year with the vocabulary words. They started off with making Power Points and then moved onto Movie Maker. All of the students loved doing this project.They had to gain an understating of the definition first. We also did an Explorer digital story telling project. I can truly say that they put more effort into digital projects than anything else.
There are so many ways you can incorporate digital story telling. If the kids are going to tell a story about a subject or topic, they must first really understand the topic, which is what we want. It is almost as if they become the teacher. Or you could make movies of the kids to show at Open House, or document a field trip and review it while the kids write a written response about it.
The possibilities for digital story telling are endless and it can be done so that it is meaningful.
Check out some evidence here, and check out the link at the bottom of my blog.
Check out some evidence here, and check out the link at the bottom of my blog.
Thanks for the great ideas! I'm sure you could even use the story telling for middle school students explaining an open-ended math problem! The more I keep thinking about the digital story telling, the more I like it!
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