Friday, June 12, 2009

What Is The Sky?

Digital storytelling is form of teaching or presenting that really makes the experience more deep rather than bullets and reading from a screen. There are many ways that you can make your story more appealing by using voice threads, different effects, audacity, and other tools to help with your slideshow. Using audacity you can mix more than one audio to help with multiple clips. It does what it is titled and that is giving students information but more like a story then a lecture. It also can tell a story about a class in regards to what they do for work and shows each individual student as opposed to a few at a time.

What Is The Sky? What are different seasons the sky produces, what are the characteristics, and how do they affect us? This is my overall activity plan for one part of the unit plan and the three unit questions that go along with it. Throughout the slide show made for it shows a general overview over weather, the seasons, and how all of these characteristics affect our everyday lives. Since online resources can easily be used to check the weather and it is done everyday by most people, there were many possible sites to go to for information. The slide show was very effective in the first part of my unit plan because it was an easy way to show many parts of weather in a quick and clean way. Other ideas I can think about future ones could be incorporating a voice thread with me or a future student giving an up date of the weather as if it were on the television done by a meteorologist. I feel that the slide show and the voice thread, even though it was not used in this particular assignment, could be used for any subject and could make the learning experience even more beneficial.

2 comments:

  1. I really liked your slideshare! The images were so colorful and really captured each season you were trying to portray. I agree with you about this being a very useful classroom tool. I really like the idea of using slideshare to create intros into my lesson. These are fun ways to grab the students attention and present them with information in a fun and different way :)

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  2. Your slide share was well presented. I think that it was perfect for your 4th grade students. It was eye appealing for your students to stay entertained, basic and to point. I thought that the captions that you place in each one of the photos was great. It makes the students recognize key elements of the different seasons. Great Job!

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