Chapter 11 Reflection

Discuss digital stories and describe their purpose and use in learning.

Digital stories are narratives that have been manipulated into a multimedia production. Digital stories can be very interesting because most story software allows the user to add music, edit and manage the material in the multimedia production.
In using digital a digital story, regular stories are given new found life. They have graphics and music that give the user a visual representation of the story being told. I think digital stories make a regular story more memorable to the reader.
Using the software that enables one to make a digital story can be a very enjoyable experience. For instance, our IT class used the Microsoft photo story software to make a video. It was so much fun! I felt like my instructor was pushing me to my creative limit, without being overbearing. The photo story section of this class was probably my favorite.
From a future educator’s point of view, I could see where this program would be very beneficial to my future students. As I previously stated, this project is very fun and limited only by the students’ creativity.
Digital story-making is beneficial to students because it promotes creativity and exposes students to software that they may otherwise never become familiar with. Digital story making also gives the students a visual representation in their mind that they can refer to when later thinking about the story being presented in class, making comprehension much easier.