Digital Story 3 & Final Exam Introduction and Video Reflection

Today was a day to keep learning about digital stories and how we can improve them. But, we also talked about our lesson plans and what those need to be about. At first I was very confused but now I see that you want us to think outside the box. We need to be as creative as we can so we can help our students the best we can and get them engaged. They must be engaged in what we teach or we will lose them. Technology and using many outlets will keep them engaged and doing fun things while learning.

I guess what I learned from today was that I really need to think about my past and future lesson plans and involve media and technological influences in them. Learning that now and putting them into my practice lesson plans now will help me in the future. I think it also helps me to think about how I can use technology for my everyday living too. My younger sister came up to me yesterday with help on an assignment and I was able to help her using new media tools and she loved it. I can help people even now to prepare to be a technological teacher.

From all of this, my student will be using technology and will want to in my classes. Therefore, I will need to keep that in mind while doing lesson plans. I really feel like it doesn’t have to be big projects but adding simple technology will help them too. It will keep them engaged and will excite them for more technological things we do in class in the future if I can help them enjoy it.


Video: Why We Need To Teach Technology in School

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I found this video searching for one talking out technology in school. It is very simple but it gets across a point. It tells teachers they need to use media in the classroom or they will be left behind. It shows how improvement in technology in the past has changed so much and how it will continue to grow and we need to keep up and help our students keep up too.

Digital Stories #2 and Did you know 3.0

I am having a lot of fun working on the digital stories. I really enjoy photostory and how easy it is to use. Working as a group helps too. We are working collaboratively on this assignment that makes it easier and we help each other when we get stuck on an idea. We all give our input and are able to make the digital story even better. I like the tools available with photostory in making our digital story look great.

Photostory is a great free service that I can use in my other classes and share with my other colleagues to help them make their lessons better. We can learn this technique to help us be better teachers in the future. Photostory to me is a lot like PowerPoint but I actually like photostory better. It is easier for me and you can do a lot more it seems with it to help teach a concept in a new an interesting way.

I am excited to introduce photostory to my students when I am a teacher so they can make their own digital stories. Since I will be teaching Drama I will have a unit on scriptwriting. They could write a script and make a short movie out of it using this program. They could find pictures to represent what their script may mean to them and go along with their script. I really didn’t think that I would use media like this in my classroom but know that I know about it I can see the value in using it. The students will have fun and will learn while they are doing it.

Did you know 3.0
This video has a very interesting point of how influential technology is in our lives. It not only is so very impressive now but it will only get more impressive and we will be more involved with it than ever before. This tell us as teachers that we should incorporate technology in our classroom because that is what our students will be used to. We should also do this so we can keep up with our students and their technological knowledge. They will be able to teach us things I am sure and we should include their technological skills and abilities into our lessons.