Reflections on Session Six

Session Six is an online lesson. In this week, I learnt what digital storytelling is. According the free encyclopedia of Wikipedia, digital storytelling refers to using new digital tools to help ordinary people to tell their own real-life stories. In schools, teachers and students can use this kind of information technology to make photo stories, videos stories and interactive multimedia projects. Thus, as teacher / student plan and develop a digital story, teacher becomes digital story designer; student becomes designer. Teachers and students can use camera, scanner, imaging software, and mobile handheld technologies to develop a digital story. Digital storytelling can support students' engagement, creativity, multimodal thinking and expression, collaboration, project work and so on. Actually, we can download Microsoft Photo story 3.0 to make a digital story. We can design educationally effective digital stories with user-friendly technologies. When we are ready to design a digital story, we must know the following seven steps for developing our digital story.

They are included:
1. Select Topic
2. Conduct Research
3. Design Storyboards
4. Collect material
5. Develop Story
6. Export Video
7. Deliver Story

References:
1. http://www.learnactivity.com/ds/

2. http://www.learnactivity.com/ds/DigitalStorytelling.ppt#3

3. The meaning of digital storytelling
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital_storytelling

4. Photo Story 3 for Windows http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/using/digitalphotography/photostory/default.mspx