Importance of Cultures

Digital Storytelling

Digital Storytelling is a great technology tool that can be used to tell stories of any kind whethere it be nonfiction or fiction. They focus on a specific topic and get try to make a certain point of view through. What is neat and cool about Digital Storytelling is that you can insert pictures, you can embedd your voice in it as if you are the narrator, insert videos, and even music to make the slides a but more entertaining and less boring. This can also not just benefit the teacher, but also the students. The way that digital storytelling can help the students is with vocabulary; on how to pronounce the words correctly, how it is spelled, and what the meaning of the word is. It can also benefit them on how to tell make a story and what the criterias are on beginning, middle and end, and the main topics that need to be presented upon the story.

One of the different methods of digital storytelling that I have used is called Voicethread. It is similar to Digital Storytelling because it can do the same thing as to put anything from pictures, audio, video or text and you can make it any length you need. It allows the students to interact with each other and look at each other's work to produce higher levels of thinking skills and get more informed about how technology works. My voicethread talks about how knowing different cultures is important and what you can learn from everyone's traditions to how they live.


I have created my activity plan  and decided to engage on the different cultures and why its important and they can also learn how voicethread works in case they would like to do one on their own; they can have mine as an example.On each slide, it is focusing on a certain topic on cultures and how it has some similarities and differerences or how they can be beneficial to others. Also, there are HOTS questions that allows them to interact with each other and brainstorm different ideas. What I like about voicethreads is that it can let the students comment on the slides, input their voice and draw comments on the side to answer the questions.


I can definetly see myself using this technology that I have learned into my future lesson plans because it gives a different perspective on how to introduce a lesson to where it makes it educating and interacting at the same time. So why not come out and let your ideas be heard!