Before reading this article, I was not familiar with Digital Storytelling. After reading this, I learned that Digital Storytelling is telling a story using a video camera or a digital camera. The storyteller can tell any story at all. The story can be fiction or nonfiction. I think that Digital Storytelling is a wonderful invention. It is a way to pass down history to everyone all over the world. It is a way to never let things be forgotten; but it is also a way to be creative and explore the world of technology.
The article "Digital Storytelling" by Glen Bull and Sara Kajder aims to incorporate this Digital Storytelling into the classroom. In this article they talk about using this technology when teaching language arts. They talk about using this to discuss the characteristics of a good story. According to Bull and Kajder, these include point of view, a dramatic question, emotional content, economy, pacing, voice, and soundtrack. They encourage allowing the students to create their own story to tell. They have to learn about plot and writing a script and more.
I think that this is a good idea for students of all ages at varying degrees. Students get a chance to work with literature, but they also get to use technology and their creativity. However, this is not limited to solely teaching literature, there are many different ways that Digital Storytelling can be incorporated into the classroom. One idea is to teach diversity in the classroom, you could even go as far as to teach vocabulary with a video camera, having students act out the vocab. There are so many ways that students can use a video camera to learn and teach their classmates.
I did not know that using and telling a story assigned to you by your teacher could be considered digital story telling. While in school I thought that this was just another simple assignment. But digital story telling can be a fun way to teach and learn brand new skills and techniques. I agree with you Katie, it is so easy to create digital stories for all ages to teach everything from diversity to vocabulary.
ReplyDeleteBefore I read your blog and my own article, I assumed that digital stories were more fictional. I think it was the world "story" that was so misleading. However a person speaking about their own story surely is just as legitimate a story as any! YouTube is full of them, and I had never realized it before I was introduced to the concept of the digital story.
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