Digital storytelling is a combination of images, video, audio, text, or music, that tells a story or instructs on a certain topic. DS is a great way to integrate technology into the classroom, and into lesson plans. Students are able to present their topic, story, or ideas in a fun interactive way. DS can include Slideshare, SlideCast, and Voice Threads.
For my unit plan I liked the idea of students using a slideshare to display their knowledge on parts of a map. Below is a student example.
You can see how I would use it in my
sample template.
Amanda, the idea and level of the activity fits in very well with the age group of children that your unit plan will impact. I giving the children a good stable base is a great way to start a lesson plan, and why not start with how to interpret a piece of material that they will be using constantly during the entire lesson plan.
ReplyDeleteThe only thing that I could suggest is maybe when you are explaining what they key vocabulary words are zooming in on that particular item on the map or bolding it somehow and making it stand out.