Week 11

How can digital storytelling be utilized to help/facilitate reading teaching and learning?

I think that digital storytelling is a great way to make students apart of the authoring cycle. It gives students the opportunity to tell stories about themselves or things that interest them, in a modern and entertaining media. While working on the stories, teachers could be reviewing the characters, genres, plots, story lines, etc. with the students. I also feel that these stories are easy for teachers to story and share with future classes. By doing this, you are giving students a purpose for creating these stories.

Digital stories do not have to limited to the reading classroom. I think that they are a great way to get students writing about any topic. As a social studies teacher, I could use this activity to get my students thinking about specific time periods. They could write narratives that are set in a historical time period. The students would be using facts to set up thier stories, but could be creative by using fictional characters. I really think that kids would enjoy, and learn a lot, from creating digital stories.