Weekly Blog 3

We had a substitute in class today; therefore the entire class was spent working on our digital stories. It’s difficult to determine what the most significant thing I learned in class was, as discussion was limited. However, I would say one thing in learned was that our cohort has some pretty creative students. I was very impressed with many of the digital stories that were shown to the class. All of them were unique and interesting and I think that I gained a greater appreciation for the practice of digital storytelling. It is definitely an innovative way to present information. Questions I have left over from class are many of the same I had last week. Mainly, what is the purpose of this assignment? I would be interested in further discussing some of the benefits of each student making a digital story. Clearly there are some great applications of this technology and I would be curious to hear what some of my peers thought about this. We briefly touched on some of the classroom applications of digital storytelling in the last few minutes of class. One use of this technology was that students could use it as a means of doing a report and presenting data and information about a specific topic. It was mentioned that digital storytelling is a great way for students on the shy side to feel more comfortable contributing to the class. As someone who was pretty shy as a young student, I would have to agree. Last week I mentioned that digital storytelling could be a good way for students to creatively introduce themselves to one another. These thoughts have only been strengthened with my extensive use of Photo Story 3.