Reflection #5

My group decided to use photo story from windows for our digital story. Learning how to use photo story was fun. The main thing I enjoyed was how easy it was to use. There were no complications and hard parts in photo story. This is a great program for my future students to use when they are creating themselves. That is how simple photo story is.

Digital stories is one way I can communicate with my students parents by letting them see what their children have been able to do in class. They will see how excited their children are to show them what they have done and to see that I am using new up dated way to teach their children.

One way I will employ digital stories in my classroom is by creating a story that I will put up on the classroom site. This way my students will be able to watch the video at home with their parents. This can help me to save time during class if time is short and it will give the parents a chance to see what their children are learning in school.

A pro to Digital stories is that you can be as creative as you want to be. You can also use it to help teach anything you find helpful with that subject. The only con I see is the time to create a digital story and that some students if not taught correctly can create something bad.

Did You Know? Video

This video was really cool. I enjoyed it. With all of it’s did you know facts and then presenting more data of things happening today. The video did a good job of getting my brain ready to read the next did you know fact, and by the end, seeing those questions about what is happening in public schools today really made me think. It is amazing how fast technology has grown, and it is important to keep in mind about what is happening in our schools today when it comes to technology usage.

A Vision of Students Today Video

This video was very interesting. I saw a lot of things that happen to me and other classmates. We buy expenses books that we sometimes never use and don’t have enough time to read them all. But at the same time, spend way to much time watching tv and playing around on the internet. The technology we have today is great. But I don’t know if it has really been put to a good use for mankind? There really needs to be a better balance in schools today with using technology and books.