Digital Story 1/ Nasa Digital Story Video

This week we learned what a digital story was and view several examples of the digital stories. The digital stories look fun and I am excited to learn how to make them. I really liked the examples because it showed a broad spectrum of what can be done and how easy and fun it would be to make and share with students to start out a lesson. I found myself getting really excited while I watched the examples of the digital stories and then realized that I would not be learning the lesson and was a bit disappointed. Yet, it made me excited to do these with my students, I can see it really sparking their interests.
With the digital stories I can see the teacher presenting a basic exciting digital story to help capture students attention and intrigue them for the up coming lessons. The digital stories help convey information that students really get absorbed in. I think that the different dynamics of the digital story really help. I like that each digital story has a layer of sound effects, music, pictures, movies and narration. I really think it is vital to have all the layers to help really give your digital story that "wow" factor that sucks the students in.
I plan on using digital stories probably about 3 times during the year. I would probably use them to really intrigue the students to want to learn on lessons that might usually be less excited. Perhaps I could use a digital story to suck my 5Th graders into the Revolutionary War. This is such a broad subject and History can be boring if it isn't presented the right way. I think a digital story with lots of sound effects, pictures and music would really help the students want to grasp onto the subject.

NASA Digital Story Reflection:
This digital story was really fun and informative. It not only had great pictures to view but the narrator really supplied the digital story with information that was easily understood and interesting. I also really like the way the different sound effects were implicated into the digital story. My favorite part about this digital story was that he had the actually recording of President Kennedy's speech to America. It was fun and great to watch!