Learning in blogs

I believe this website to be so informative and relevant to digital storytelling that I have used in my commentary and critique section of my assessment. The site Educational uses of Digital Storytelling offers a brief overview of digital storytelling and the goals and objectives for both teachers and students, a step by step process of how to create a digital story, examples of digital stories from K-12 educators of every degree, a Comprehensive software and hardware tools page, an evaluation page that describes research on digital storytelling, as well as resources and partners page that is growing with exponentially. It’s a must for anyone getting into Digital Storytelling.

I have been trying to find something that represent the benefits of digital storytelling in the classroom. I believe this figure convergence graphically demonstrates how digital storytelling can combine four student centered-learning strategies into instruction.

A recent post made by lena suggested that she wanted teachers to be wary of the sensitivity of children’s when they show their movies etc to the public for viewing. This is a relevant issue when it comes to my chosen field of Digital Storytelling. Teachers do have to make students aware that their peers and other people can view their stories, therefore students themselves will need to be sensitive to other students stories.

While searching blogs pages looking for interesting concepts I have come across Michelle’s blog and the newspaper publishing website. This is very simple but very effective tool to assist in the publishing of students work. Check out my story and what I’ve said below.

This video on digital storytelling using photostory 3 was found in teacher tube. It was created by Darin Toelle. It gives an insightful explanation of what he believes digital storytelling is. Darin also describes the benefits of using storytelling in many different situations including the classroom. He tells us how and why people create ever lasting memories of loved ones and explains the educational purposes of using digital storytelling. Download Video: Posted by dtoelle at TeacherTube.com.