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Digital Storytelling

3/3/2017

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Classrooms across Grandview C4 are embracing the concept of digital storytelling and it's not hard to see why.  Digital storytelling allows for students to take ownership over their learning by creating a story that displays what they have learned.  Take for example Ms. Miller’s 1st graders at Meadowmere who were asked to tell a story about an animal. They used Book Creator to draw pictures, add in photos, and to narrate their knowledge about an animal.  In this one project, many standards were addressed as well as life long skills such as doing research, writing a script, and practicing their public speaking skills.
Down the street at Conn-West, Ms. Lininger’s 3rd Graders were asked to do a similar task.  They completed their animal reports on Shadow Puppet EDU and you can see they had to carefully pick what pictures would make sense with their report. ​Click on the picture below to watch a student's report.
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Digital storytelling can be used as a tool to empower students to be confident communicators and there are quite a few ways you can ask your student to digitally tell a story. Although there are hundreds of tools that we could ask our students to use, don’t forget that it's not about the tool, but it is about telling the story and demonstrating the learning.

Diane DeLaTorre
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