Digital storytelling is a way to tell a story using tools on your computer and the internet. The tools discussed in class were: PowerPoint, iMovie, Animoto, GoAnimate, Jing, Screen Toaster, Google Earth and Google Lit Trips. These tools can be used to create a number of different things, from fun visual presentations and movies, to stories told by cartoon characters, or trips following the stories of Shakespeare around the world.
Digital storytelling would be an extremely useful tool for my major field (elementary education). There are so many different ways that I would be able to spice up my teaching using these tools. I could create an iMovie on a foreign country for history. I could use GoAnimate as a fun way to review vocabulary words or teach another language. I could show students Google Lit Trips to bring alive whatever book they are reading for class. The possibilities are really just endless, and I am very excited to know about these tools for when I begin my teaching career.
This YouTube video is a digital storytelling example that presents a math problem and explains how to solve it. I chose it because I would like to use digital storytelling in the classroom to explain a math problem to my students. For elementary students, the video would be slower and the math would be easier, but the general idea of bringing a problem to life would be the same.
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