Final Digital Storytelling

Here is my final digital storytelling assignment about ComPrime Town!  I had so much fun doing this assignment and receiving feedback from my peers.  I look forward to implementing this strategy in my classroom one day!

Digital Storytelling Suvery

Please complete the survey below after watching my digital storytelling video.

Digital Storytelling Survey

Digital Storytelling Draft 1

Hi all!  Here is my first attempt at digital storytelling. Please watch and leave me feedback in the comments below on what you liked about it, and what I could improve upon.  I will also be creating a blog post, with a short survey for you to take about my digital story!  Thanks!

Digital Graphic Organizer

This week in class we discussed the benefits of using digital graphic organizers and how they promote literacy skills.  Students can use digital graphic organizers to: help them create summaries and retelling of stories, improve their digital writing, identify the main idea and details of a story, determine cause & effect, or a problem & solution.  As you can see, there are many benefits of using digital graphic organizers in the classroom.
Digital graphic organizers can also be used to enhance students' literacy skills across disciplines.  For instances, students can use digital graphic organizers to take notes during a Social Studies reading, to explain the procedures of a Science experiment, or to define a mathematical term.
I created a digital graphic organizer as a way to organize my thoughts about my digital story I will be creating.  I used Google Drawings, an application through Google, to create my digital graphic organizer.

Practice with VoiceThread

In my last blog post, I introduced VoiceThread as a collaborative audio tool to use in the literacy classroom.  We have been talking in class a lot about VoiceThread, and we were assigned to practice combining audio with powerpoint slides in VoiceThread.  Below is my VoiceThread where I combined my audio into a slideshow about the TPACK framework - Technological pedagogical content knowledge.

You can check out my VoiceThread about the TPACK framework here.

While it took me a while to get use to VoiceThread and how to work it, I am happy I practiced and am pretty pleased with the results!  Feel free to add your own audio comment to the presentation!