Week 3 Digital Story Telling

Digital story telling is a way of telling stories using graphics, sound effects, our voice, music and video clips and combining them to tell a story.  When someone sees the digital story it stirs up more than one of their five senses.  They have the visuals and the audio along with the emotions of the story.  People can use digital story telling in a variety of ways.  Teachers can make them for their students to teach new concepts.  They can reuse them.  Parents can make them for their children, they can be replayed, saved and treasured.  Students can make their own to showcase what they have learned.  When reading about the digital stories and viewing some examples of them, I immediately thought of making one for my personal children.  Maybe telling them about when they were born and facts about their infancy and early childhood. I thought about it because they love hearing about when they were born and the silly stuff they did, it is like writing a story but much better because it will be told by me (their mom) and it will be all about them.  This is something they can treasure.  

My next thought was to make one for my inclusive preschool classroom that I work with.  I thought of telling a story using the students as the characters in the pictures.  For music we can use a nursery rhyme or other sound effects.  The story teller will be myself or a combination of 4 teacher voices that they are familiar with.  The story will be very personal to them.  I can’t imagine the excitement on their little faces as the see and hear a story were they along with their classmates are featured.  After we are done with the digital story we can showcase it to the parents during a parent night.

As a future teacher, I can see digital story telling as a powerful tool in my classroom.  The students will benefit and hopefully be excited about learning with each story.    

Digital Storytelling Resources for Teachers