Reflection #4 & Video Clip

How will these skills help my students create?  They'll help them create a document of what they've learned and how they grew because of it. They can decide on how they want the outline to be like, the types of music, and who will narrate the story. They can all work together and use their imaginations and see what can come when each student creates together. The end product can be used by other teachers or even by the students in the future.

How will these skills help me collaborate with my colleagues?  They can be tools to help another class out in a need to discipline and instruct them better. The whole grade can use the same stories while studying a unit. It will promote more meetings for the teachers of what the students need to accomplish and how they can improve their instruction. 

Why are these tools so popular with my colleagues?  It changes up the monotony of lecturing, but most importantly because they teach a topic in a new way. The stories instantly connect with feelings, happy or sad, and experiences that they have seen other people or themselves go through. Students get the whole experience of a topic in audio, visual, and emotions then the would from just reading a text and answering questions.

In which ways might I employ these skills to achieve classroom objectives?  I can employ these skills in a many ways in relating to objectives. First each topic could include a digital story about a person, experience, or issue happening during the time period of the topic being studied in class. A digital story could be about violence and how it has hurt the person talking and this could possibly help the bullies in class see what they really are doing. It could also be on a certain objective, say the water cycle, and the story could help them remember the correct steps it goes in.

What are the pros and cons of Digital Stories? The pros are that the stories are unique, diverse, and connect students to real life experiences. They change up daily class routine and teach learning through three of the senses. I t connects to children much better then having them read quietly in a book. The cons are it takes to much time to make your own digital story in order to use it in class. If sometime you wanted to randomly pick a video the site could be down or the story could not play. 

Nasa Digital Story

This clip was unable to download on my computer I tried it twice, but it wouldn't convert over. I tried looking it up on google and thought I found it on the nasa site but I wasn't sure how to tell. Also I looked it up on teacher tube but the videos had nothing to go about darwin. I bet it was a neat story that would get students interested in what space is and what happens there. Boys for sure love space and the vibe it gives off of exploration and finding new information over time.