In their article, "Telling Stories with Video," Carl Young and Sara Kajder discuss the benefits of teaching using digital video. They report, "integrating visual images with written text, as done in digital stories and multimodal compositions, ehances and accelorates comprehension" (Young and Kajder, p. 38).
It is true that creating stories in a digital was allows for us, as educators, to be creative in presentation and for students to make an assignment their own. Students love options and this allows just that!
Some of my favorite examples from the article were using digital video to do book trailers, posting video responses to their peers' thoughts, and analyzing poetry. I can see students really getting excited about this type of project-based learning.
In my school, I have not seen many opportunities where students have used video to tell stories for Language Arts, but we have a very active video production class. They spend hours composing video for the daily announcements, for activities (the Foundation fundraiser), and for stories of student interest ("why is student parking such an issue..." They get very involved in what they are doing and it is easy to see that they care about their work. I would love to incorporate video stories into my lessons as well. The only problem I see is access to video cameras.
The NETS that is developed here is number 1, "Facilitating and Inspiring Creativity," and 2, "Design and develop digital age learning experiences and assessments." By engaging students in activities that they choose, we are able to create successful learning environments.
Young, C., & Kajder, S. (2009). Telling stories with video. Learning & Leading with Technology, 36(8), 38.
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