During class today we saw several different digital stories. One story we watched was entitled Dear Mr. President based on the song by Pink. This digital story was a difficult one to watch because of the powerful song lyrics and the slide show that went along with it. Although I did not agree with the video, I was able to see the power of a digital storybook. Another story we saw was one made by a teacher and her class. The class did a unit on the rain forest and made their class into a rain forest. Each student drew a picture of something in the rain forest and told about it. This storybook was really neat to watch. It gave me several ideas for my future classroom!
Digital stories can be used to teach different topics in a fun way that will keep students attention. It is very important that a teacher does not make the video too long other wise the students' attention will go away. I believe I will use digital stories in my future classroom as a way to add something fun to the routine. I would also use digital stories to let parents see different work that the students are doing during different units.
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I definitely agree that the stories can't be too long. You need to be in tune with your audience, and in my case, middle schoolers have like a 3 minutes attention span, lol. Good luck with future digital stories!
I agree with you in saying digital stories can be used to make teaching fun! I can't wait to use them with my third graders!! Good luck in using your stories in your classroom!!
Right on with the digital story use. It seems like the entire class wants to use them as well. Depending upon the age or the topic of the video, it could be longer. A wicked awesome topic could keep the class entertained for a long time. Keep that in mind.
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