Digital Storytelling

      Digital storytelling is when students use their creative skills to create a storyboard on a paper, use a camera to shoot their video, and finally edit their video on a computer using some software. The students usually combine text, video, graphics, sounds, etc to create their critical thinking skills. The majority of the planning comes in the beginning stages called preproduction. It gives the students the opportunity to produce their ideas on paper before filming. I think it would work in classroom because I have done similar things to this and my own classes and I enjoy it. It is a break regular school work and gives students a chance to work on something outside of the box and be creative with it.
      Other methods suggested in our book to help students in math are to use different kinds of manipulatives, computer graphics to emphasize graphing, and graphing calculators. All of these things will help students to better visualize what exactly is happening when they are working out a math problem. A lot of students know the formula or do as they are told, but do not understand the actual process or why they are doing it that particular way.
      I think that it is possible to learn from TV. It may not be the best way to learn something from the TV, but it can happen. In classroom use, it would be more efficient if the students were given a lecture or information on a topic and then watched a video on it for reinforcement. This way they have more background information on the subject or material they are learning. This way they are not basing all of their learning from the TV and have other knowledge as well.

Jonassen, DJ, Howland, JH, Marra, RM, & Crismond, DC (2008). Meaningful Learning with Technology. Upper Saddle River, New Jersey: Pearson.