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.