Voki and revision

 Voki1

 Voki2

Origional:

We were asked to create a digital story describing what teaching meant to us.  We had to choose images and sounds that would help convey and enhance our point.  My story was designed to show the history of our world is not a series of dead facts but a relevant line if causes and effects.  I wanted to show every action we take in life creates a ripple through out the lives of others either on a small scale or on a large scale.  I truly believe in changing one life you can help change the world.  Using Digital story telling can be helpful in classrooms because it encourages students to think outside the box.  "Through creating electronic personal narratives, students become active creators, rather than passive consumers of multimedia." (Ohler,2006).  I think a good way to use digital story telling in a history class would be having students get into groups and  pick a decade.  Each group would be responsible for putting together a digital story about the advertising used during that era.  By using the advertising of the time period, the students would get a unique outlook on how things were marketed to the consumer and what "the ideal" was at that time.  This would include all media types : print, radio and possibly television.  By allowing the students to design something using digital resources involves their creativity and makes the information more relevant to them and easier to learn.


Revised:
We were asked to create a digital story describing what teaching meant to us.  We had to choose images and sounds that would help convey and enhance our point.  My story was designed to show the history of our world is not a chronological list of dead facts, but a relevant series  of causes and effects.  I wanted to show every action we take in life creates a ripple through out the lives of others, either on a small or large scale.  I truly believe by changing one life I can help change the world.  Digital storytelling is useful in the classroom because it encourages students to think outside the box.  "Through creating electronic personal narratives, students become active creators, rather than passive consumers of multimedia." (Ohler,2006). 
I would use digital storytelling in my history class by having students get into groups and  pick a decade.  Each group will  be responsible for putting together a digital story about the advertising used during that era.  By using the advertising of the time period, the students would get a unique outlook on how things were marketed to the consumer and what "the ideal" was at that time.  This would include all media types : print, radio and possibly television.  By allowing the students to design something using digital resources involves their creativity and makes the information more relevant to them and easier to learn.