Reflection #5 and Video clips

In which ways might I employ digital story skills to achieve classroom objectives?

         I could use digital story to achieve objectives by finding videos on the indians and then incorporating them into your unit. This will help the students get a real life example of the time and what happened. Also they will feel of the emotions and strength and the topic will become more important and they'll want to learn more. You could also make one for your class as a instructional video to teach them about a certain process like the parts of a flower or the water cycle and help them connect it to a visual.

How will these digital story skills help me collaborate with my colleagues?

          These skills will help me with my colleagues in that we can be more computer illiterate as a whole. We can finds clips and digital stories and see they have a message we want to be heard. A message that portrays help, completion,  and confidence.

Did you know? movie clip

         It is a awesome video that really gets you thinking about how fast our world grows. Showing and relating technology to babies being born and how their world will be different was a good strategy. The strategy that pulls you in and commands your attention with graphics, stats, and music. I t really makes me want to be fully computer illiterate and teach my students computer skills. So that they can get up to the knowledge to technology in the 21st century. I think it would be a great idea to show the first half of the video to students to show them the world they live in and how the need more technology smarts is great.

A Vision of students today, movie clip

         At first I thought this was a really weird video and a different approach to view college life, but its a cool way to capture it. We have so much technology at our feet and opportunities, but we don't always take advantage of them. Why spend money for class and never go? It's crazy to think we complain about having homework and slow computers when half of the world won't earn as much as a laptop costs in a entire year. It is a good video for older students to see and to realize how lucky and special we are even though it seems hard and crappy. It's to complicated for elementary students to comprehend and they wouldn't get much of it to help them.