Not only is this a fantastic way to implement technology in your classroom, it also includes the following student literacies:
• Digital Literacy – the ability to communicate with an ever-expanding community
to discuss issues, gather information, and seek help.
• Global Literacy - the capacity to read, interpret, respond, and contextualize
messages from a global perspective
.• Technology Literacy - the ability to use computers and other technology to
improve learning, productivity, and performance.
• Visual Literacy - the ability to understand, produce and communicate through
visual images.
• Information Literacy - the ability to find, evaluate and synthesize information.
In researching Digital Storytelling for my activity plan, I learned that there are 7 essential elements in Digital Storytelling. I included these 7 elements in my storyboard for my movie...
- Point of view: Outlines the point of the story and the perspective from which the story is told.
- A dramatic question: Sets the tension of the story by identifying issues to be resolved.
- Emotional content: Engages the audience through common emotions and themes (love, pain, humor).
- The gift of your voice: Helps the audience make meaning of images.
- The power of the soundtrack: Sets the mood of the story.
- Economy: Balances the auditory and visual tracks of meaning.
- Pacing: Sustains the attention of the audience by establishing and modifying the rhythm of the story
