This week’s assignment was to read Chapter 6 from our text (Shelly, Gunter and Gunter).
Review a host of Website resources for Digital Story telling and dream a bit on how I could integrate technology into my curriculum and have my students use digital story telling in their assignments.
I teach Allied Health Courses in Vocational Occupations at the college level. I am constantly looking for additional resources for my students. The current courses I am teaching are Anatomy and Physiology, Medical Terminology and Medisoft. The publishers offer very little resources in addition to the textbooks.
One of the requirements in my classes is to have the students do a research project on a disease of their choice or a current event that relates to their class. I require the research to be at least five pages long. They are also required to present their work to the class. I require them to use some type of visual aids as well. Thinking about the past two weeks of assignments and my current curriculum, I am now feeling a bit more confident that digital story telling would benefit my students. Most of the students are non-traditional, they are on average 30 plus in age and most are women. Getting them to use technology that is computer based has been a bit of a struggle, however since learning about digital storyboards, I think these students could have a better learning experience and have fun at the same time. I am a strong believer that learning should be fun and exciting.
I am excited about the up coming project for this class, which will be creating a Wikispace. Dreaming a bit how I would set this up using my current curriculum and incorporate Digital Story telling.
A project that I would have my students do is curriculum based and the students would a choice of using different media:
I would offer a Web linked tutorial section for different media sources.
· Digital Storytelling: A Tutorial in 10 Easy Steps
- Video Story Telling Basics Storytelling
- Storytelling Ideas
- PowerPoint
- PowerPoint presentation using Slideshare
My classes are health related so the digital story telling would need to be a simple project to complete.
