Digital Movies

I would never thought that creating a digital story would help in the classroom, but they can.  They help the student with recounting historical events or learn about life in the community.  Digital stories are fun to create  because they allow the student to express their ideas, opinions and their life tales.  There are certain steps when creating a digital story and general guidelines to make the story a good one.  The NETS standards state that a teacher must be able to exhibit skills for working with technological system and model appropriate use of resources such as pictures and music taken from the internet.  Creating digital stories, we must be careful to follow the copyright laws.  Allowing students to creat a digital story, they are able to practice following copyright laws and such.  I really enjoyed this assignment because it allows for lots of creativity and there was so many options when creating the video.  The program allows for different types of transitions, different ways to fade in and out the clips, and easy manipulation of the clips.   I think children would really enjoy doing an activity like this and can be used for so many different things.  It also gives them more opportunities for being creative and express themselves.