Week 7

VoiceThreads

For this week, I created a digital story that I would you as a teacher to assist me in a lesson about World War 2. I thought it was both fun and intersting when creating the digital story for this assignment. I was amazed to see how powerful the story became once my voice was put behind it, words are truly powerful. I was also surprised how easy it was to make a digital story. After doing it once now, I think that I could do it much faster the second time.

Digital Storytelling can really be a great idea and tool for teacher to use. In the classroom you could use it to view others telling a story through their words and pictures. It is a first hand resource that you can use to back up your lessons and activities. A teacher may also use it to help students who are more visual learners since it provides images with instruction behind it.

A teacher could use digital storytelling outside the class room in the form of homework or research. As a teacher you may give your students the task to browse other people digital storytelling to research a certain topic. Or you may create your own voicethread, such as I did above, that may be used as a mini lesson that students are responsible to complete at home. This is also a good way to get parents involved in their childrens learning which in return enriches the learning community of your classroom.