Week 3: Digital Storytelling

I learned a lot this week. I got to view a lot of really great PowerPoint presentations and that has helped me to make my own really great PPT. I am now more confident that I can get my point across when giving a presentation, rather than putting my audience to sleep. I am also a little more likely to use PPT in the classroom and hopefully my new found skills will rub off on my coworkers who have atrocious ppts!

I now feel confident that I can make a digital story. I am worried about the whole design piece of it, as I sometimes don't feel very artsy. I found this website and it has given me even more resources for my own digital stories as well as ideas for the classroom.

I'm thinking about making some family story digital stories this summer. Especially ones to remember my deceased grandparents, to share with my family. I am going to research more about their lives before I knew them (my grandpa was in the Navy during the Korean war). I think this will be a great summer project!

Digital Storytelling: Week 2

I enjoyed this weeks class work. I especially liked the reading from Presentation Zen and how it is helping me to create better presentations. I have already revised a PowerPoint presentation that I use for second grade to talk about plant adaptations. I have them create their own plant for a specific habitat and show me how it has adapted to that specific environment.


I have found a lot of lessons that I can use to incorporate digital storytelling into my curriculum. I can do at least one with each grade level 2-5(I chose grade level activities based on what we teach at different grade levels in our district.

Second Grade: Habitats
Third Grade: Japan Story (instead of Japan book I do now)
Fourth Grade: Grandparent Tea or similar family story
Fifth Grade: Name Meaning Autobiography

Digital Storytelling Week 1

This is the first week of Digital Storytelling. All of the other tech teachers in my district just took a digital storytelling class through the district so I am excited to learn more about this.

I really like telling stories. I would like to learn how to tell stories better and how to teach my students how to share their stories. I think this course is going to provide me with the tools I need to incorporate digital storytelling at all of my grade levels.

I am excited to learn about software that I use to share stories and to hear what my classmates stories are. Everyone in the cohort is unique and I hope to learn more about each of them during this class.