After today's lab session, I have come to the conclusion that I am budding movie producer, author, graphic designer, music maker and writer! Digital Storytelling is an awesome tool that has immense opportunities for teachers and students in today's classrooms. Digital Storytelling caters to the Multiple Intelligences of students in the classroom as it develops skills which would normally have gone unnoticed.
A digital story according to Davis (2004) is a short, generally personal narrative, told in the first person, presented as a short movie for display on a television or computer monitor or projected on to a screen.
Once Photostory 3 is downloaded onto the computer, (which I was unable to do because I do not have Windows 7) digital storytelling is fairly easy to create. In order to create a digital story, it is wise to create a storyboard or storymap which will summarize each major story event. All storyboards have essentially three major components: a call to adventure, a central problem and closure.
Features such as adding and customising text, inserting music and voice completes the story. In a society where media prevails, this is truly an awesome tool for today's children in today's classroom.
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