Digital Storytelling in My Classroom

I could use digital storytelling in my classes in a variety of ways. In Social Studies I could use it as a new way for students to interact with the information we are studying. In special ed. My students are all visual learners, who require repetition and concrete examples to learn new content. It would be nice to have a new “trick” to use, other than having them create PowerPoint or Google Presentations. They do well retaining information when they are responsible for creating a presentation/project and then teaching about a subject. Digital Storytelling would work well for this.

I would also use digital storytelling in my English classes. This is a great way to have them do the organization, prewriting and planning that they typically get hung up on. All of my students, low level and reluctant writers alike will be able to create something they are proud of and feel okay about sharing with their classmates.