Digital storytelling helps students to be able to put their own memories and experiences into a story told digitally through resources on the computer. Podcasting is both audio and video that students are able to use in order to learn about experiences, subjects, or facts in a fun and interactive way. Podcasts can be used in a digital storytelling lesson in a few ways. For one, they could be used to help describe what digital storytelling actually is. If a teacher could find an audio or video podcast that helped explain to the students the concept of digital storytelling, it would help capture the students’ interests. Podcasts could also be used in the digital storytelling PowerPoint presentations that each of the students are going to make. Once the students have picked out a certain topic for their storytelling project, they could go on a search for different podcasts that deal with their topic. They could incorporate both audio and video files into their digital story that would help make it more interesting and teach the students how to maneuver around the Internet. I think that incorporating both digital storytelling and podcasts into a lesson for students would only benefit the students. Technology is constantly changing, and I believe that students should be updated on the latest technology in order for them to succeed in the future. By providing students with an opportunity to become familiar with digital storytelling and podcasts, they may in turn teach someone else or use it in their lives for years to come.
Good explanation of the use of podcasting for digital storytelling. Give students as much opportunity as possible to create their own knowlege as they have constructed it in their heads...that's how teachers get to be the experts--great teachers, they get to re-create knowlege over and over again, by speaking it, writing it, saying it, creating and re-creating lessons with it, etc.
Pass that gift on to your students, especially with the ease of using technology to do so... :)
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Digital storytelling helps students to be able to put their own memories and experiences into a story told digitally through resources on the computer. Podcasting is both audio and video that students are able to use in order to learn about experiences, subjects, or facts in a fun and interactive way. Podcasts can be used in a digital storytelling lesson in a few ways. For one, they could be used to help describe what digital storytelling actually is. If a teacher could find an audio or video podcast that helped explain to the students the concept of digital storytelling, it would help capture the students’ interests. Podcasts could also be used in the digital storytelling PowerPoint presentations that each of the students are going to make. Once the students have picked out a certain topic for their storytelling project, they could go on a search for different podcasts that deal with their topic. They could incorporate both audio and video files into their digital story that would help make it more interesting and teach the students how to maneuver around the Internet. I think that incorporating both digital storytelling and podcasts into a lesson for students would only benefit the students. Technology is constantly changing, and I believe that students should be updated on the latest technology in order for them to succeed in the future. By providing students with an opportunity to become familiar with digital storytelling and podcasts, they may in turn teach someone else or use it in their lives for years to come.
Lyndsay:
Good explanation of the use of podcasting for digital storytelling. Give students as much opportunity as possible to create their own knowlege as they have constructed it in their heads...that's how teachers get to be the experts--great teachers, they get to re-create knowlege over and over again, by speaking it, writing it, saying it, creating and re-creating lessons with it, etc.
Pass that gift on to your students, especially with the ease of using technology to do so... :)
Dr. Herring
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