Digital Story Telling

Have you ever heard of digital story-telling? Well if you haven’t, you need to be aware of this innovative way to teach in the classroom. Forget the chalk board and get ready for an enhancing tool that will change the typical classroom scene. Digital story-telling is formulated on the idea of combining the art of telling stories utilizing digital multimedia, which consists of images, video, and audio. You can use an assortment of tools using digital story-telling to enhance or better a specific unit plan. You can use pictures, text, personal narration, music, and even videos to enhance your student’s minds. They will love to interact by using digital story-telling, and well teachers will too! Here are the seven elements of digital story-telling:

1.Point of View
2.A Dramatic Question
3.Emotional Content
4.The Gift of Your Voice
5.The Power of the Soundtrack
6.Economy
7.Pacing

The seven elements of digital story-telling helped me create enhancing unit plan. My unit question is “How can I work with other students and hear their thoughts and ideas?” This is very important for students early on to understand because your voice in a classroom is extremely important to hear. Your voice may teach someone else, or your voice may help you talk out an idea you may have. Communicating in a classroom is a vital part of the learning process. I have created a project plan, and a story board, which enables you to see how I used a digital story-telling movie to enhance my unit plan. I have incorporated the seven elements of digital story-telling to help me outline my plan. The movie will be based from my point of view, I being the teacher and instructing the students. My dramatic question is “How can I work with other students and hear their thoughts and ideas?” I have incorporated a lot of emotional content to keep my unit lesson personal, and meaningful. I used the gift of your voice, and the power of the soundtrack to address to the students personal, and also entertain them as well. I used the economy element to address the main issue, and keep the students focused and not bored or overwhelmed. The last element I used was pacing. I purposely paced my stories progress, so the unit plan would smoothly and at timely speed to get through the unit plan, and have time for discussion afterwards. Check out my Storyboard, and Unit Activity Plan to see how I used digital story-telling elements to create a movie.