Saturday, March 28, 2009

Basics of Gardening Digital Storytelling

This was by far the most interesting and extremely challenging project I have ever experienced! What a great tool to promote education to students! The numerous resources available such as MovieMaker, to create a minimovie was very fun to play with and become familiar with the resource. I chose MovieMaker and mostly all of the images used in the digital story were actual pictures taken from my in-laws' beautiful garden.
It is truly amazing the wonders of technology and how we as future educators can incorporate these types of resources in our teaching. Although my movie was not directed in a classroom or the script was also not student-teacher friendly, I believe the main points were given. Teachers who would like to begin a unit on plants or gardening now have a new and simple guide to use by viewing my movie. The simplicity of the movie was created intentionally so the viewers would not be overwhelmed with a great amount of information.
As a future teacher, this project will instill the knowledge I need to pass on this awesome new way of teaching to my students. Designing a digital story is million times more engaging as oppose to pencil, paper, and textbook. All students would appreciate this particular type of project and embrace the challenges that comes along with it.
Go watch my movie

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