A story about my journey of becoming a teacher

Today's Story using Storybird.com
http://storybird.com/books/in-the-process-of-becoming-a-teacher/


This week we learned about Digital Storytelling. This was one of the coolest tools! My Digital Story was created using Storybird but I am eager to try another type as well since Storybird limits that story to the pictures of one artist.  I have used this tool before but I struggled with it because I wanted to create an Alien story with the preschoolers I worked with and there were not very many space pictures to choose from. I thought I would have them tell me their story and we would write it down and try to find pictures together and then tell the story to the class.  This was not as easy as it sounded since the pictures were so limited and preschoolers have such vivid and wide imaginations.  Spiderman could easily make his way into a space story and Storybird had only certain pictures to choose from.

I will definitely use this and other Digital Storytelling for my future projects with kids.  I think it is a great Writer's Workshop tool.  In class the presenter showed us a YouTube video of a class that did this.  They learned how to write a rough draft and then to transfer it to a script.  They learned editing skills in writing and video making, adding sounds and graphics. It was a really fun lesson!