Monday, June 16, 2008

Digital Storytelling with my Power Point

While I was completing my power point presentation for Digital Storytelling I really enjoyed reading about the topic of Digital Storytelling. I enjoyed the fact that they students get to be authentic with their own work and put their true feelings in. It is a pleasure to see that someone can demonstrate understanding on a assignment beyond the paper and the pencil. Students get to add in color, music, different fonts, and other medias to enhance their own writing. I learned that students can find a way to become authentic to their own. While students complete a project like this one they can increase their own literacy in many eras. Students can increase their literacy in usage of language, computers, and their own historical content.
If I was to complete this assignment differently I would put the power point on a wiki or scrapbook to try something different with my new ideas that I have learned. Overall I don't think that I would have done anything different to be honest. I thought the assignment was simple and I did a good job carrying out the task at hand. The lesson that I would have had the students complete would be for them to carryout a digital story of their own by following what I have discussed in the power point
—Point of view
—A dramatic question
—Emotional content
—The gift of your voice
—The power of your soundtrack
—Economy
—Pacing

I would have the students carryout the assignment of making their own story and submitting it in for the class. Each student would be able to increase their own literacy skills with one another while discussing the points of Digital Storytelling.
Here is my URL to my power point presentation:
http://www.slideshare.net/eambrose1
I hope that everyone enjoys reading this project I had a blast completing it!!!

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