People love to hear and tell stories. Students share stories about their families, friends, favorites, and travels. It's been said “everyone has a story to tell.” Digital storytelling gives children the opportunity to reflect on their experiences and use their imaginations.
Up until now digital storytelling has been too technical for many students and teachers to successfully accomplish. By using the templates and resources in this kit, schoolchildren of almost any age can tell their stories through images, text and sound and share their stories with others.Award Winning Digital Storytelling Projects is a toolkit that makes it easy for students to create digital stories and helps teachers implement digital storytelling into their classrooms.
The templates cover a wide variety of grade levels, curriculum areas and writing styles. The stories can be built in a wide variety of video or slideshow editing software. Grades 2–Adult. All subjects
Technology Lessons for the Classroom: Keys to Technology Literacy
This is an 18 week course for developing technology literate students for the 21st Century. Each chapter begins with one page for students to read explaining the basics of the topic followed by four to five projects. In addition, each chapter has terminology with students researching the definition for each term. The book includes Web 2.0 applications that are appropriate for 21st century learners and related to ISTE Standards. Grades 6–9
