Digital stories are an opportunity to tell a story that has directly impacted you. It is a way of telling a story in a way that is different from any other. Digital stories allow you to use narration and images with music to make a bigger impact than simply reading a book. Digital stories are not like a childrens book, they are individual, creative, make an impact, change perspectives, and enlighten those that experience them.
The digital stories you showed in class really stuck with me and some of them were more powerful than many things I have learned about those subjects previously. I think this is a daring way to teach and involve our students to make it more real to them. I think digital stories are great because they give the individual creating it voice. We have the opportunity to show our view of different things and how we feel about them. This type of sharing is so important to each individual that knowing how to create digital stories and sharing those skills with students will give them a way to express themselves even at a young age.
Digital stories will be something I would like to use in my classroom in the future, especially if I can get to a point where they aren't so hard to create. I think learners now are so visual and feel they need to be entertained to learn. Digital stories will be a way for me to reach some of my students that I might not reach otherwise. I also think digital stories would be fun to use to create a classroom community. Using digital stories as a spotlight on a student would be so much more fun than a poster. I think having this skill will be useful to me in the future to help colleagues around me learn to be more innovative in the classroom.
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