Digital Storytelling

What is it? Digital storytelling is an activity, project, or assignment that teachers allow students to do so that they are able to showcase their work through digital storyboards. Children are able to use a variety of different of applications to create these digital masterpieces. What applications are good for digital storytelling? There are applications such as My Story, Tellegami, Toontastic, Sock Puppets, Book Creator, and many more! Students use these apps to create things using photos, videos, drawings, voice recordings, and a variety of other things to tell a story. For example, students may use Toontastic to create an animated story that they have written. Also, a student may choose to make a My Story while he or she walks us through the steps taken on a science project. The possibilities are endless! Why choose digital storytelling? Students are able to display their work in a way that is comfortable for them. Students that are timid and shy become to enjoy presenting things to their class and teachers. Also, parents and teachers enjoy seeing what the students have learned about a particular subject. There are so many reasons to incorporate digital storytelling into your classroom!

Below, I have attached one of my beginning creations that I have made with the Sock Puppet digital storytelling application!

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Here's to New Beginnings!

Let me begin by saying that I am beyond excited to embark on this journey in the Teaching Program at Jacksonville State University! Being a teacher has always been a profession that I both respect and admire. I think that the idea of myself becoming a teacher arose when I was in high school. My teachers devoted themselves to the success of all of their students. I vividly remember occasions when I needed help on things varying from derivatives in calculus to filling out the FAFSA. My teachers acted as both friends and parent-figures to those that needed them. I recall moments when I was truly amazed at how much these people cared for myself and many others. It did not matter how many times we said rude remarks, talked too much, did not complete our homework, or wanted to give up, our wonderful teaching staff came back every day with a goal to remind us how special and capable we were of accomplishing anything we set our minds to. My teachers were inspiring, thoughtful, passionate, and so many more words in the Webster's Dictionary that seem to undermine how incredible they really were. This is what drives me. I want to be someone who changes lives and gives children a reason to look forward to the future and what lies ahead of them. I want to take the wonderful gift my past teachers have blessed me with, knowledge, and pass it on to many more young students.