Reflection #9 Digital Story1

My mind is blown away by the digital stories! I didn't know that there was such a thing. I still don't fully understand how to put together a digital story, but I'm sure that I'll get it down sometime. Although, I am excited to learn and to be able to make my own digital story. We'll see how it goes!

Using digital stories in the classroom I think will help to increwase the focus of the students. They need a variety of ways to learn the material. Digital stories will catch their attention and help them to be excited for what they are about to learn. Learning how to put digital stories together will enable us as teachers to give a little summary, about what the class is going to learn, within just a few minutes.

I think that it would be fun to have the students create their own digital stories as well. You, as the teacher could put the students in groups and give them each part of a unit. That way you would be able to have the whole unit presented and it wouldn't take as long as doing lessons for each of the topics. The students would be learning more about technology and building their skills while doing this project. This would help them to be more efficent in our technologically growing society.

NASA Digital Story:
I thought that this story was very information packed! I liked it! The voice was a little flat, but I liked how they encorporated the voices of other historical figures. I liked how they went through and mentioned the missions that NASA has sent off, as well as the people that were aboard and didn't survive. It was interesting to me that they showed the other side of the Race to Space, which was the Soviet Union side. They showed the astronauts that went on the flights and the struggles that they also had.