Week 3- Digital Story!

I love learning about the history and science of storytelling.  In this week’s resources I read a lot about how the brain retains information better when it can relate to something personal.  I know that when I am trying to obtain new information, I try to find a personal connection to help me remember what I am learning about.  Teaching a lesson by personalizing it shows the children/students that the teacher is passionate about the topic and has experiences within the subject matter. 

Watching all the digital stories from the alumni students was a very fun way to not only learn about the topic, but also a little about the person.  I enjoy telling my personal stories to others, especially stories where I gained new knowledge. I think Digital storytelling would be a great way to be able to save those stories and pass them along to future generation. 

I am very excited to learn about creating my own digital story on a future lesson I would like to teach my students.  Being a physical educator and not having that classroom layout, teaching concepts/lessons might be a little bit more challenging.  Showing a quick five-minute digital story before a unit may help the students understand the topic; I think that this would be a great way to start each unit and allow the students to relate with the subject matter.