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Live and Interactive with Alan Levine

 

In the “Technology in the Secondary School” course in  Teacher Education Program, just like in any other course, we had people presenting to us about important and relevant topics, but in a different way. The difference was that instead of the presenter being physically present in the class, the presentations took place through the Internet. The presenter and the class connected to an Elluminate session that allowed live interaction with each other.

Alan Levine recently joined with our class through Elluminate to talk about ‘digital storytelling’. Alan is one of the pioneers in developing ‘digital storytelling’. He told us that anyone with a story and a computer could create a digital story. We all have stories to tell. Conveying a story digitally makes it more appealing, creative and presentable.

Alan showed several different ways to make a digital story from the wiki site http://50ways.wikispaces.com/. It was very inspiring to find ways to use current technology and be creative.  We all thought about how to incorporate digital storytelling in our classrooms. Alan showed us the following story on YouTube that inspired me to use digital storytelling in my science classroom.

 
 

I immediately started thinking about ways to incorporate the idea of digital storytelling into my chemistry lessons. It would definitely be an ideal differentiated instructional tool to motivate and engage students.

Technology is great. It opens up avenues to be successful in 21^st century learning.  

Thanks Alan for educating us and sharing your experiences about digital storytelling.