Digital Story Telling

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Good Morning,

Digital story telling is my focus this morning.  Here is some of what I learned and what I found exciting about the educational approach to using digital story telling.

I was introduced to podcasts a few weeks ago when I listened on Tune in Radio to missing richard simmons a podcast.  One that I am fairly embarrassed to say, I spent my time listening to.

Fast forward a few weeks and my instructor pointed me in the direction of some information related to the educational value of digital story/podcasts.

I was sold on the value of integrating technology advancements with classroom learning when I read Mind Shift.  In short this is what they had to say concerning the students and technology.

It has been a wild and unexpected success: Since it began, StoryCorps has collected and preserved more than 50,000 interviews, and a fraction of them are aired weekly on NPR’s Morning Edition.

Isay believes that StoryCorps is especially valuable to kids, in part because it represents the antithesis of what our contemporary culture seems to celebrate: what’s trivial, sparkly and fleeting. StoryCorps, which invites intimate conversations about the weightiest matters, “is the opposite of reality TV, and of modern technology,” he says. “It’s about the power of personal connection in the digital age.”

I also learned that when students can use clear organization of thoughts, purposeful learning occurs.  Hence, digital story telling requires a purpose for a result.  The story can quickly spiral out of control if not directed due to the amount of information on the web.

Digital story telling takes a disciplined self-starter someone who is a self starter.  Young learners often find starting and follow through a frightening.  However, by successfully living through the exercise of creating a digital story this habit can be formed.

Problem solving abilities if not already fine tuned will be polished.  This is due to the nature of mixing written & spoken language with technology, time, and the human factor.

I have been blogging now about my educational journey since the Fall of 2016 in WordPress and finally feel as through I am understanding the power of blogging.

As Dr. Seuss says, “Oh the Places You’ll Go!”