Digital Story 3

This week we learned and worked more on our digital stories. I have been using the photo story program to do my digital story. Photo story is really a great application because it helps you step by step add things to your slide show. I really like how photo story has everything you need to make a cool slide show but it is so easy to use. My group and I put in our pictures, added photo effects, enhanced the movement and added text all in one class period. Things are moving along we just need to add our narration and put the final touches on everything. I think it will be great.
Digital story are really great, they can be used so many different way and help people understand using a visual and auditory stimuli to relay instruction or information. Recently in our field work I kept thinking of all the cool ways to use digital stories to help relay information. They are so fun and entertaining. I think it would be really awesome if you had the time to create a digital story for a subject that is a little bland. For instance if you took division and made a digital story about the process of division, it would be so cool! Students would learn so much from it because it is visual and if there was a song that went along with it they would remember the song. It would be awesome.
In my teaching I will use digital stories to help relay information for my students. I think they are awesome. Maybe I could come up with a really cool one to help students learn about math, like in my example above. I just think it would be so cool to help students learn information in a fun entertaining lesson such as a digital story. They would learn so much more if they could visualize it, internalize it and be able to use it. Using textbooks to relay information just doesn't do anything, especially in toady's society. Students need to be stimulated visually, auditory, and hands on. I think that with a digital story students will get sucked in and engage more with it. I think it would be great for the classroom.