Digistories

It is important with any technology brought into the the classroom that GLOs continue to be addressed. It would be very easy to get so involved in the endless new products we are exposed to and start to forget some of the main things we are hired to teach. I think that digital stories provide a fantastic media which allow students to enhance their story writing abilities while learning how to use new and useful technology. I like the idea of spending 60% of the time working on the actual writing process and then 40% on the media. I can see that some students would get so excited about the process of making a digital copy of their story that they would overlook some vital story making steps. The process of editing and peer editing is made easier with digital stories. When students make paper books it is harder to go back and change pictures/pages than when making a digital copy. I think digital stories have created a great merging of technology and education. Through producing and reading digital stories students can build on their own writing skills, literary ideas, and media skills.