Digital Storytelling....what I would change.

After looking at my story Super Brain, I have realized if I was to do it again, one thing I need to work on is trying to keep my mouth away from the microphone.  I am sure this is something I would have to remind my own students of as well!  Live and learn right!!

Super Brain....Digital Storytelling

My class and I have been working on telling stories that have a problem and solution with in them.  We have also been working on making sure the character or characters really come alive in our stories.  For my digital story I wanted to work with my class to incorporate all those aspects in our story.  We worked together as a class to create the story of Super Brain, and then as you can tell my class created all the illustrations for our story.   The idea of the story started from one of the boys in my class and then it all just came together from there.  If you think about it the story is very similar to Superman.  Overall, I felt our story came out well and my class loved doing it together.  I am thinking about using this feature of technology again when my students do their Diary of a ....books for our Content Area writing unit.  That time I will have them create their own narration and be the narrator of their story.

Story, Story, STORYBIRD!!!

Well once again my school is not in session!!  We are hoping to go back to school tomorrow!!  Please all cross your fingers, because right now I have played around with way to many story apps for our projects!!  I was sitting here today and decided hey what the heck let me try this whole STORYBIRD thing!!  I did it and I think it's pretty cool!!


Thank you Mari Beth for helping me embedded this!!!!

I definitely could see myself using this in my classroom , to help my students that have difficulties getting ideas flowing for writing.  We have always had those students who struggle to get an idea started on their own.  I could see Storybird being a huge help with that.  Now that they would have the pictures there for them, I think it could be a great tool to help guide a student who is struggling.

Digital Story

So I am all about trying new things this weekend!!!  I really thought that I would just attempt to make a silly move!!!  This is what I came up with now!!!  I was totally just playing around and literally made up the story out of now where!!!  I am not going to lie this one too is also really cool!!!

Anyone else try this yet???  What are you thoughts????

Xtra Normal

So we had a staff meeting last week and our art Teacher decided instead of getting up there and just talking out ears off about a project he would like to have at our school, he decided to use technology.  He made a video for us from the Xtra Normal website.  Since I am in this class I of course decided that I needed to take a look at it for myself!!  It is amazing.  I am still new at it but for fun during snack time my class and I played around with it a little!!  I think it could be a great way for a student to do an oral presentation without having to stand up there and talk the whole time.  I just see many possibilities to it and I am glad our Art teacher introduced us to this!!

Here is my attempt at one:

Digital Storytelling

This whole idea of digital storytelling is still very new to me!  I have taken time to do some research and looking around the web to learn some more information about it.  This blog Digital Storytelling Part One gave me the most information about using digital storytelling within the classroom.  I love on this blog when the author expresses, "New technology tools allow us to connect, communicate, and collaborate with others around the world."

I love the idea of taking the stories our students create and having them connect with students around the world.  By using this it would allow the students to share their differences and similarities that they have in a world of technology.  We always say some of the best learning a child can have is from their peers, well now we are just taking that idea a step further with technology.  Now instead of students learning from just their peers within their classroom or school, they can learn from peers from the other side of the world!  What a fascinating idea!!!