The Art of Digital Story Telling & Digital Storytelling Across the Curriculum

I learned a lot today in using digital  media to create presentations.  I liked working on iMovie on the iPad and putting our Pipe Cleaner project on iMovie.  It was the first time that I have used the elements of music, sound clips and editing the video.  It was great!!  I think these skills of video production are very valuable, and I could think of all kinds of applications for use in the classroom and for my personal use.

In the two articles we were assigned to read, the first article stressed that the two elements most important to storytelling are; 1) Living in the stories, and 2) unfolding the lessons learned.  The author should use their voice and bring out the emotion of the story, whether the story is about them or not.  By bringing out the emotions, it gives the story staying power with the audience.  Lessons learned helps the story to be relevant whether it is first-hand or second-hand,

I teach High School Biology, and these are some ideas I thought of where my students could do projects using digital storytelling :

• When doing reports on diseases and disorders, students could tell the story from the perspective of the person suffering from the disorder or disease, including how the disease was diagnosed, how they felt at the time, what it has felt like going through treatment, if there is any treatment. What would be the story of the affected persons fa
  
• A story about evolution from the perspective of Darwin or other early evolutionary biologists and how they have been taunted and ridiculed.  Why they defended their theories.
• You are part of a family fishing operation in the Gulf of Mexico, what has happened to you since the BP (British Petroleum) oil spill, what has happened and is happening to the ecosystem of the effected area?  You are an employee of British Petroleum, what is your perspective?