Here are my digital storybooks:
My trip to poland
voicethread
Graphs
The first digital story I made was on scrapblog.com and it is about my trip to Poland this summer. I included pictures of places that I visited and what I did while I was there. I thought scrapblog was helpful because it allowed you to pick a theme and then edit it however you would like. It was much easier than creating the entire page from scratch. I was able to drop in photos and add text with little effort. One of the limitations of scrapblog is that it takes a long time to upload pictures and I could not figure out how to slow down the pages when it plays. It does not allow enough time to view all of my pictures and text on a page. Other than that, I could see how this could be interactive for students in a classroom. Teachers could put up pictures in a creative way and add music to help make a lesson more interesting.
The second digital story I made was about graphs. I used voicethread for my second digitail story. The video is meant to be an introducation to a graph unit for middle school aged students. I thought this program was very useful because it allows you to talk in it. Typing can be time consuming sometimes and if you are able to record your voice it makes it easier. I also like the fact that you can record yourself writing and then play it for students to demonstrate an idea. This is very useful in my content area because as a math teacher I will always be demonstrating how to do problems and by using this technology I can make lesssons more interesting for my students.
The third digital story I made was the same one as the second but on a program called Animoto. I thought this program was the most user friendly of all. It was very quick in uploading photos and adding music was easy too! It also put it all together very nicely and made it look like a lot of work when it wasn't all that hard. The only downfall I saw to this program was that it only allowed me to make a 30 sec. video. I said I had to pay for a full length video. I don't think 30 seconds is sufficient for a classroom assignment all the time, so I feel that this could be a problem. Other than that, it was a great tool and I enjoyed using it.
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Haa...I put your name in Google search bar, and then was lead to here! Your works are truly amazing and the design is cute, too. Teaching is indeed an art, especially when powered with computer tech like multimedia. It's so wonderful for you to have a clear career goal as a high school math teacher, and are actually moving towards it. As far as teaching, I am not feeling so confident about my stat 400 discussion sessions - my 1st teaching experience so far, not only because English is not a native language to me (meaning I have to THINK while SPEAKING...that takes too much CPU in my head...), but also I guess I've not been able to integrate creativity, or whatever fancy high-tech stuff as much as possible into the class. Seeing your thinking about teaching, I guess I will need to talk with you about teaching some time, absorbing some of your creative perspectives :-)
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