Week 3: Digital Storytelling

Digital storytelling is a skill we all need to implement in our classrooms with our students. What better way to catch our student’s interest then telling them a story? We all know children love to hear stories because it intrigues them. This does not just go for children it goes for anyone. If we can think back to a class we've taken or a meeting we've had to sit thorough we can always recall the stories that we're told. As human beings is obvious that we draw our attention more to something being told to us that we can relate to. On Sunday's I help teach at my church to children ages 5-7 and I can see first hand that when I'm teaching them a story and simply reading it to them they get easily distracted from things around them. When I tell them the story and include questions that can relate the story to them or have them help me act it out the lesson is grasped a lot better. It's almost like when you read a poem for the first time without and background information, you may not quite understand the meaning. Once your learn more about the author you may be able to connect his life to what he wrote about.