Digital Story 1

What?

We have just finished building our podcast and vidcast. I liked it so much that I made an extra podcast and then posted my favorite. We are now beginning our Digital Stories. I think I may enjoy the digital story almost as much as the podcast.

So What?

As a teacher, this information means that I will be able to teach my students with combinations of music, pictures, videos, and other graphic images to present them with valuable information. As a student, I can use this information to put projects into a more creative and interesting form. For my brain fair project, I was able to use my knowledge of how to build a website in order to organize the information, videos, and pictures from my team's research. They also knew how to do it, which helped with the collaboration, and it reminded me of how it could work with my colleagues in the future. We are doing this for the very reason to help us become better students, teachers, and colleagues.

This can apply to my other classes and my life in general in many ways, like being able to use my enlarging schema of media to create better and more interesting ways to share and teach information. This technology we are learning will allow me to portray important messages to the students in a way that can be interpreted by them and only them through what they see, feel, hear, and take in from media organizers like the digital story.

Now What?

To my future students, this information means that they won't have to listen to me tell them information, but they will be able to decipher which facts are and aren't important through visual and auditory imagery. This information changes my current schema by enlarging the ideas I have floating around that I can retrieve to help build a better learning foundation for my future students. I can give my students an assignment at the beginning of the year to build a website and throughout the year, I can have them post their assignments on their website. They can go back to their website and edit it throughout their school years and it can serve as a journal to them in the future. Hopefully they will continue to build on it throughout their secondary education and high school.

This will help me become a better teacher because I will be helping the students create fond memories by harboring good experiences and long-lasting assignments. This information will also help me become a better colleague because I plan on keeping the google site I created in this class and adding to it and taking away from it as I shape my schema and teaching philosophy. I really enjoyed making my podcast and even made an extra to help my friend, who was having sleep troubles, to fall asleep. I hope my students will connect with one of the many assignments I now know about and can give them.