Digital Story Telling

Digital story telling is a fantastic way to have students express themselves. It is not very difficult, but I would not recommend it for the younger kids (kinder-2nd grade). The editing of the video is what gets pretty complicated, and it can be very time consuming. However, I do believe older children can do this sort of activity. Students 6th grade and up could easily do this sort of thing. One way to use it with smaller children is for story time. Instead of students reading the traditional book they can read a digital book that includes music. Another way is to have students (older) do a book report, or history report using this technology. Doing so would definitely add a spin to classic assignments. Story telling would be an excellent way to have students introduce themselves to the class. It could be an assignment for the first week of class. This is perfect for those shy and reserved students. Their video can do the talking! Posted below is the video I made on my hero, well in this case heroine. Like I stated above it was easy, but the editing drove me crazy! I have the really out-dated version of Windows Movie maker so it was difficult to manage. My video is not perfect, I could not figure out a way of making the words on the slides slow down, and I tried everything. I have to say I am proud of my video even though it has a lot of mistakes. I realized I didn't add my name on the first slide, but was too afraid to go back and edit because I had a very difficult time getting the video to play on another computer. I hope you enjoy it! let me know what you think.