Digital storytelling is a great way to deliver many kinds of content to many different audiences. You can narrate a story of your trip or adventures over a break from school to younger students through an automated slideshow with background music. You can present a historically accurate story of someone in a unit you may be covering in your class to middle and high school level students. Digital storytelling could even be used for new teachers to get to know one another and the rest of the school staff at the beginning of the school year. Here is a fun little video I made of one of my close friends to give you an idea... As a future high school teacher, I plan to use digital storytelling in my classroom. I may not be able to use it as often in my PE class, but I will certainly be able to use it to a great extent in my theater class.
In my PE class, I could use digital storytelling at the start of each semester to help the students get to know each other better. I could use it to help explain how to perform particular exercises, or what the rules of a certain game are. Movies and TV shows are the epitome of digital storytelling, so I could do so much in my theater class with digital storytelling. If they were working on producing a play, the students could record each step they took while working on the production: memorizing lines, working on their physical movements on stage (blocking), working on showing the different emotions their characters go through throughout the entire play (characterization), and when they put it all together, the final production. I could have several groups all do the same short skit, but apart from each other, record their interpretation of the script, and share with the class to see how it can be seen differently through different perspectives. The students could even help each other work on memorizing lines by recording themselves saying their own lines and sending it to the other cast members to play out loud so they can hear the cues for their lines. If there were set groups in the class room working on different plays throughout the year, each group could show a digital story of each play they put together. The class could even do that as a whole to show others what they accomplished.
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