My students LOVE digital storytelling! This year our school celebrated National Talk Like a Pirate Day. My students used the iPad app Toontastic Jr. Pirates Puppet Theatre to create their own pirate story. They did an amazing job!
We use digital storytelling to retell and create stories. This is a great opportunity for me to see if my students understand the setting, characters, and plot of the story. We are able to share out our stories through the use of an author’s chair. My class is 1:1 with iPads, so we do most of our digital storytelling with iPads. Check out this list of the top iPad apps for digital storytelling!
I think digital storytelling could be a great tool to get across content in an online learning environment. . . especially for my 1st graders! They love listening to stories, so instead of teaching the content through the use of a screencast or a digital whiteboard, I could use digital storytelling to capture their attention and keep them engaged while learning independently.
I could use digital storytelling to teach content across all subject areas. For example, I could create a digital story about the Earth, Sun, Moon, and Stars which would meet our science standards. . . or I could ask my students to create digital stories about one of these aspects and post to their blogs. Students would then be able to visit each other’s blogs and learn from their digital stories. There are endless possibilities with digital storytelling!!
Embedding students' digital stories on their blogs is a great way to archive their work and to share it their stories with one another. Are your students' blogs private within the class account or public? If they are public blogs, students could create digital stories to connect with a broader audience.
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