Well this is yet another technology that I had not heard of until this class. I can see where this could be a great resource for teachers introducing standards in a very different way from what the students are normally use to. I work in a primary school (Pre-2) so I am not sure that the student would be able to tackle this enormous task on their own. This would be something that would probably be teacher driven. The students would be able to learn a great deal but I do not think that they could accomplish this without intensive involvement from the teacher. At this age and even elementary and middle school the media specialist and the teacher would probably need to prepare the files for pictures, sounds, and video clips for the students because of all the copyrights and citing task that accompany the task of digital storytelling. This has proven to be an enormous undertaking for me.
In the book Library 2.0 and Beyond it is stated that there are seven elements to digital storytelling. They are: the point of view, a dramatic question, the emotional content, the gift of the creator's voice, the power of the soundtrack, the ecomony, and the pacing. This would be a great experience for students to use their creative and individual styles to create something that would be very informational and interesting. Because the digital storytelling is not a very long story it gives the creator just enough time to hook the audience. The objective is to give enough information to leave the audience wanting to know more about the subject. If used by teachers this would give the students enough information for them to WANT to learn more about a topic that they might normally think boring or why do I need to know this. I think that this is a great technology that could become something great for the teachers and the students.
I have check with different schools, from primary to middle schools, in our county and no one uses eBooks. They do use online encyclopedias, encyclopedias and atlases on CD's, Britannica Elementary through Galileo, and some books on CD's that they use the printed book to follow along. The media specialist at our middle school said that she has considered purchasing them but the students have a hard enough time keeping up with the regular books so she is not sure that this would be a good investment. She said that she would like to know more about how others would circulate the eBooks in their schools.
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I also think that once there are more examples of how media specialists use and deal with Ebooks, more schools will actually use them. I haven't seen them used, but I would love to find out more.
ReplyDeleteYou are also right about the resource kit taking a large amount of time and effort to compile. This would be a great opportunity for the media specialist to collaborate with the teachers to compile this kits instead of it all falling on one person. I like your idea of using the digital storytelling as a hook to get students interrested in a topic! Many times a good hook will really make a lesson.