Digital Story Telling

Digital story telling is a wonderful tool to implement in the classroom. It is a tool that is used to tell a story through text, images, audio, and video clips, or music. The computer will substitute the actual book and children will be able to appreciate a story through wonderful and exciting images. In a sense, viewing a story from a digital aspect brings the story and it's characters to life. Digital story telling ranges from recapping historical events to biographies, and personal tales. This form of a story telling usually requires at least 10 minutes of length.

The great thing about digital story telling is teachers along with their students can collaborate together to create interesting images, audio, clips, and much more to produce a story. During the process, the students will enjoy and have fun completing the story telling project. For example, if students are assigned to create a digital storytelling project based on historical events,this will allow students to explore their own creativity and research historical events they may not be aware of the occurrence. Students will gather as much information as needed including video and audio clips, and images.



Voice thread, Slide Share, and Slide Cast are all great tools to use in the classroom. Students will be to learn the core subjects and more through these high tech tools. Why should our students be restricted to the same old text, worksheets, and pen? They should be exposed to more technology and fresh ideas to enhance their learning. Students will be able to retain the information provided by this new age technology because of the way it is presented. These new technology tools will also give students an opportunity to be creative, work in small groups, and just the idea of exploring other possiblities of learning.



All of the tools mentioned above are great to enforce in the classroom. How will these ideas correlate with growing a garden? The voice thread method provides a mini slide show. Students will be able to research images of the basic needs or steps in order to grow and maintain a garden. Students can also record their own voice to provide information to go along with each slide. The students will be responsible for including all the important elements in their voice thread but all the hard work will be extremely rewarding because it will have been published by them!



For future use, these tools will work well for all core areas. Students can work on sequential ordering for a story, recipe, historical events, and even the scientific process. A science project can be recorded through voice thread and each step will be noted. Students can use images and other video clips from the internet or if they have particular information saved on their own personal computer. Technology is a new and exciting way to engage all students. If the students are taught the proper way to take advantage of technology and it's tools, the students will definitely benefit academically.