Final Reflection

What - We finished up our digital stories, or in the case of my group fixed my mistake! I really enjoyed working on our digital stories and think ours turned out great! This class has been so much fun and I have learned so much. I really wish we had another technology class.
Now what- Now I am going to use the tools we have learned in my lessons plans for the future. I think adding technology to your lessons is a great way to make lesson more interesting for my students. Digital stories were my favorite thing we learned in class and I want to be able to use them in my own class. I've talked about this in previous blogs. I would like to teach my students how to make digital stories in the future.
So what - Technology is a great way to increase the learning environment in the classroom. I plan to use technology as much as possible in the future. I love all of the tools we have learned and can think of several great ways to incorporate them in to my classroom. Thanks Doc. Waters
Video - the video was about the millennial generation. Its amazing the access students have to technology. Times are changing so fast, children are growing up in a different world and we need to incorporate that in to my classroom. Times have change and the way we teach needs to change also.

Digital Story Reflection

What - We worked on our digital stories today. It was nice to get class time, I learned how to add sound from garage band and how to put a picture on powerpoint and then add it to our story. This is a fun project. 

So What - We are doing ours on the civil war, I think this would be a great eye opener for students. Digital stories are a great way to introduce a new subject and get students excited to learn. Its a great learning tool as well. they are time consuming, it not something you would be able to do every day. I also think it could be effective to have my students make their own digital stories as a learning tool. Instead of writing a report they could make a digital story. 

Now What- I loved making our digital story. I will definitely make digital stories in my own classroom as a way to introduce topics. I will also have my students write their own video.

Video- I used my friends computer and it would not support this video. It asked me to down load a new media player which, I didn't want to download something on her computer that she wasn't going to use. sorry