Digital Story Telling

• 50 Digital Storytelling Tools
  Make Beliefs Comix
  Kerpoof
  Glogster Edu
  
  

  Who doesn't like a good story? There is always a why to make digital story telling useful in a classroom. It doesn't matter what the content area is because story are creative learning devices. Digital story telling is no different from any other story telling just got a fancy new look to it. Again I don't have a classroom or students so I'm just going to wing it and make up an example. An digital story idea I have been playing with for a while in my head goes something like this...

  
  

  Broke the students up into groups because cooperative learning is great for students. Each group now will create a blog (going digital) and they will create the first page of a story. It's a collaborative story and it can be down with any web 2.0 tool. Depending on the content area the stories will vary, but lets focus something like math. Students create a story about someone or something trying to solve something with math using one of the many formulas (preferably one the are working on in class). The groups will set up the scene. After the first post is done the groups reply to another groups blog and continue the story keeping in mind the core component of solving the problem at the end. The last group will end the story and solve the problem. Simple enough right?

  
  

  This will engage students in developing technology literacy, writing skills and improve their reading comprehension. Students can achieve good fluency when reading aloud, rereading, and one-on-one feedback. They are cooperative learning by delegating authority and sharing responsibility for learning. They can identify the structure and sequencing in their own writing as well as others and work on feedback. Imagery will help them recall and understand information and text. This all boils down to improving reading and writing skills.