1.+Digital+Storytelling



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· Chris Mahar- Storybird · [|www.storybird.com] · This website is a great website that would benefit teachers a lot. Storybird can help kids in the class create short visual stories. You can share them over the website, and if you would rather prefer print them out. I liked this website because I think it would be very beneficial to teacher’s in an Elementary school. It would be a way for parent’s to get more involved with their child’s learning. It’s concrete fact that when you have parent’s more involved; it is beneficial to the learning development of the child. I think that you could use in the older grades also, but I think that it would be more important to the younger kids. All the examples on the website are fit for younger children also.

· Alex Roberts Bringing Digital Storytelling to the Classroom [] This website is a great website and would benefit teachers a lot, it’s a good website because it has all sorts of different digital stories to choose from, that are both interesting and provides a lot of information. I liked this website because they provided a selection of digital stories to choose from, they have stories for every subject. Not only did they have a lot of digital stories to choose from it gives you examples of what the digital stories should be, and how to make one yourself, I think this would help teachers out very much!

Eric Greiner – Digital Stories @ UMBC [] This resource that I have found could be very useful to teachers who want to use digital storytelling to aide their teachings in classrooms. This website is full of lots of stories by people connected with the University of Maryland. I thought that some of these posts could be useful for Social Studies or Geography teachers with some of the stories being made of trips to other countries. Although the information might not be from someone who has been to the country many times and knows all about the culture and things like that, these stories show just ordinary people going to foreign countries and their personal experiences. I believe this could be more useful because kids could pay more attention to what people like them have to say about a new place, or experiences they encountered overseas.

Marissa Green-Teacher’s today [] Today’s teacher is a useful website that provides a lot of examples that has information on storytelling. When I first logged on to the website I was trying to find a digital story so that I could actually see for myself what all the excitement is about. This website not only had examples but, it also had digital stories to show you why, how, and what digital storytelling actually is. I saw that the website had categories of elements of digital storytelling, websites for other storytelling, resources for digital storytelling, and how teachers use them in their classrooms. I think that digital storytelling is very useful. I would use this in my classroom because I want to be an elementary teacher and kids respond to bright and colorful pictures.

Jagdeep Kang- Today’s teacher []

Today’s teacher is a website that is not only beneficial for the students but also the teachers. Digital stories are a way of keeping the students more interested in the classroom. This is an easy and more interesting way for students to learn. Students can both create and tell stories, with the use of images, audio and text. This website also gives details how digital stories work and how they are beneficial to both the teacher and student.

Jeffrey Bennett- Digital Storytelling [] Electronic portfolios is a site that is good for people who are new and wanting to know about digital storytelling. There is a detailed def It provides FAQ’s about digital storytelling as well purposes for them and even ways to create simple digital stories. Also the site provides digital stories related to education ,digital family stories and even international. The site explains well on the purposes of digital story in electronic portfolios which I found interesting since teachers usually are supposed to keep and know how to keep a good portfolio. When you finally decide to get started is has a nifty getting started tour of the tools.

Shannon Grover-Story Place Preschool Library

[] The Story Place is a site that offers stories online for young children. I believe that this would be a helpful tool for early childhood teachers all the way up to about second grade. Children would benefit from the website by getting to see animations of the stories they are listening to making them more interactive for the child. Also, it would be a great idea to suggest to parents to try at home. The parent could let the child see the online story at home and talk about it there and then the teacher would be able to follow through with the discussion the next day, possibly allowing for more parent involvement. Unfortunately, there is no real way to know if the parent has followed through with the assignment, if that is how you chose to lead the activity. However, it would still be a useful tool for the teacher in his/her classroom.


 * Jordan Shifflett - Digital Storytelling
 * @http://digitalstorytelling.coe.uh.edu/educational_technology.html
 * Digital Story Telling is a site with examples of digital story telling for educational purposes. This example in particular is talking about teachnology and education. It includes pictures and texts in a sequence with narrative voice recordings explaining and teaching about the specific subject, in this case, the effects of how technology is changing education and the benefits. Not finished..

Kellie Yanek- The War Experience Memories of World War II. [] This digital story is by Mr. Robin who is a professor at the University of Houston. During his digital story he tells about how his students are making a video about their family members serving in World War II and then gives his example of his story and how his father was in World War II. This project is very neat because it gives great information, facts, and an interesting story that would be helpful for other teachers to give their students a story about a real soldier’s story in WWII. It is also a great example of a digital story for a teacher to grasp the main ideas of how to make a good detailed digital story.

Carlyn Seeman – Digital Storytelling presented by our Teachers in the Scott County Schools

http://www.dtc.scott.k12.ky.us/technology/digitalstorytelling/closestohisheart_t1.mov

This is digital storytelling example that was made by an alternative school teacher. It is a great example showing the concepts of digital storytelling and how it works by providing sounds and a voice recording while the digital pictures present a slideshow. This lady is telling about how working at this alternative school has changed her life and how she has always had a passion for working with homeless people or people that are in need. She then goes on to explain how it showed her that she needed help in her own life and she helped herself by helping others.

Kristyn McCarty-“Training Wheels” [] This digital story was moving and meaningful after listening to what the girl told about. Lynn McClennad goes into broad detail about how one shouldn’t learn to rely on things. That people are constantly letting go of things that they love and cherish. Each and everyday people are moving forward in life and never looking back. Just like she talks about letting go of her training wheels. She learned that she can’t always rely on things and has to move on. Things will always be settled and you always need to cherish your memories. For example, when I was seven I was ready to ride without training wheels. My training wheels always made me feel safe, just like they made Lynn feel. I always knew they wouldn’t let me fall when I rode my bike, but I knew it was time to let go of those wheels and take a chance.

Rachel Senior- Native Americans in Wars

@http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IYQgPfrow2w

This digital story is explains that Native Americans have been in all of the wars in America. I think that this is a good story for personal use, but not so much in a classroom setting because there is not a lot of educational information to help the students understand. A boy created this digital story and it shows because he has his grandma and grandpa speaking and when they are speaking, there are many pauses and they become very boring so it would be boring the students. If you are a Native American and just want to educate your children or family then I believe it would be fine, but for your classroom, it would not work since the students would be bored and not educational.

Emily Davis- BBC- CBeebies- Alphablocks Sail @http://www.bbc.co.uk/cbeebies/alphablocks/watch/alphablocksclips/ This Alphablocks video is a great way for preschoolers or kindergardeners to learn the alphabet. The Alphablocks goes through the entire alphabet by each letter and teach the sound the letter makes and the video includes an item that starts with the same letter. The Alphablocks show what the letters look like. They present the learning in an interesting way that young students will listen to and are interested in. This replaces the teacher standing in front of the class room and sounding out every letter for the students. The video is kind of like a song so it would be very for students to learn the song and then they would also be learning the alphabet. The alphablocks also have other videos that help to teach spelling.

CJ Stewart

The Vietnam Conflict – America’s longest war [] I found this to be a poignant and moving example of a well constructed digital story. It provides a good example of how students can achieve a very moving project with relatively simple photo editing experience and software. It also allows for a way to creating a digital story that does not require the purchase of cameras or microphones. I would use this as an example for students assigned a digital story telling project. I would have to first settle my concerned over the legality of this digital story beforehand. It would make a poor example if its use of music breaks copy write law.


 * Camille Dobbins
 * http://digitalstorytellingasia.com/category/children/
 * I really like this website because it opens children’s minds to the rest of the world! Kids in Asia present their digital stories and other kids all over the world can watch them! It also allows students to not only learn about different kids, but different cultures in general. Most American students would never get the opportunity to learn so accurately about a child in another country. Teachers benefit from digital stories because they can explain things more clearly to their students. It is beneficial for parents because they can make their children understand that they are blessed to live in America. Students benefit because they get to see the rest of the world and be fairly educated on different cultures!