The wonderful world of digital stories.....

When you introduce stories to a child its at a very young age. Stories are with a child forever. Giving a student the ability to have many different stories available to them makes a world of difference in their learning. They learn so much more and have a love for reading that's unimaginable. When you introduce digital stories to them and allow students to create a digital story in the classroom you are opening them up to a world of fun and excitement about learning.

Many things are involved in digital stories, you bring in all the subjects that they are learning in the classroom, math is involved by them timing the slide cast, science is used to have them develop a problem and try to fix it, language arts is used too in reading and writing skills, spelling skills, and social studies to allow them to relate to the past and future. So many things are incorporated in the digital story and it can be used in many projects. Hurricanes is an example that involves a multi-curricular topic. Many learning tools are used to find out a simple question. See sample activity plan.

The research has been done the popularity of the digital stories is high. The youngest students can go and do a digital story. The teacher can also go and make one and the students go in an respond by adding voice or comments to the story. It allows for the connection of the world to each other. Many people don't have access to talk on the phone but through a digital story many people can stay connected and up to date with each other, like pen pals or far away parents. Technology is so advanced to teachers that using all the tools out there is a hard task but staying up with the latest ones and the most useful are the best way to enhance a child's learning.

Hurricanes

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