Task 6 Digital Storytelling

I viewed the “Educational Uses of Digital Storytelling” posted on the University of Houston Web site and saw examples of a wide range of uses for digital storytelling, from the recounting of personal tales and historical events to lives in one’s own community and lives in all places in the universe. I learned that digital storytelling uses images, audio, and video clips from various sources. Some of our sixth grade language arts students have done writing project in the past relating to their own families living in Florida (relating to their summer reading book A Land Remembered).The You Tube video indicated how relatively simple it would be for our technologically savvy students to tell their digital stories using their own voices, images, and sounds. Most of our students have many personal pictures stored on both their laptops and phones. When I visited Animoto for Teachers, the “Be a Buddy Not a Bully” video seemed to be a good idea for the advisory groups to create similar meaningful “value” presentations. It was easy, and I had fun creating a Kerpoof picture with a sea background. I think my sixth graders would enjoy using Kerpoof to illustrate setting for poems and stories and to illustrate vocabulary and literary terms. I looked at the tutorial on photostory at http://www.windowsphotostory.com/Guides/Beginner/importing-and-arranging-pictures.aspx and think my sixth graders could work on group projects for literature using it.