Reflection #7: Digital Story 1

WHAT?: Today in class we began learning about our digital stories that as a group we will be presenting. In two weeks we are require to have our story board and script written out for our digital story! I cannot wait for this assignment, it seems so fun!

SO WHAT?: I think that as a teacher(someday), student, and colleague(someday) it is so important for us to stay up with technology. Especially, how we were talking in class today about how schools are now able to require more technology wise from their future teachers. I think that as a colleague it is great for me to be learning technology based things (like digital stories) to someday help out the people I work with and share my ideas with them so they can make use of these teaching ideas in their classroom also. I think that digital stories can be used in my other classrooms especially for presentations that we need to present to the classroom. Also, for field I think that they will be so neat to show to the students and to the teacher. I think that there are so many different ideas that can be used for digital stories, so it will be really neat to see every one's projects.

NOW WHAT?: I think it is so important to learn different ways to present material to my students. That way it is not the same thing every time, because I know that as a student right now lecturing and PowerPoint's really get tiring EVERYDAY! I think that digital stories are so cool, because really they build off of vidcasts and almost take it just a little step farther. It is so neat that we are able to use the information we already know to help us put these digital stories together. I never realized until today in class that younger students will be able to put these projects together. I think that as a student (K-6) it would be so fun and awesome to learn how to and be able to put together a digital story to show to the rest of the class. Children are becoming so technology savvy at a young age, so it is important for me as a teacher to stay on top of the new things coming out. I believe that this class has helped me out so much and made me so much more comfortable with different technology products. I know that I need to become so familiar with technology if I want to get a job in today's world. Everything is turning to technology so it is so important for me to learn it now, so that way I can hopefully teach the colleague's and staff at my future school how to integrate technology more into the classroom, especially digital stories. It is such an awesome way to teach students!