Final Digital Story

What?
This week in class we brought in our Digital Stories in almost finished. We had found a lot of cool pictures to try to get our point across. We also found some music which we wrapped and had repeat to follow copyright rules.

So What?
It's cool to see it all come together. I think the final product will be cool, and the students would really like it as a lead in to a section on mountain men. I think they would really enjoy it. It's fun for them to see things that they are learning about brought to life in a different way. It would also be fun to have the students make their own as a form of learning about a certain subject.

Now What?
As far as using this in my class room, I think the students would like to see it and it would be fun, but it wouldn't be something that I could do very often because it is so time consuming. I know that as a teacher I will already have a lot of things on my plate to plan and take care of, and making a digital story probablly wont be at the top of my list of valuable things to do. I do think that this would also be a fun activity for my students to create. There are a few things that I would have to watch carefully though. I would want to make sure their were either direct guidlines within the digital story to make sure they had learned the necessary information, or a paper to go along with it. It would also kind of be tough to make sure that the students could run a program to do the actual story. It is a good thing to know, no matter how much I will use it in my own classroom.

Video
This week I watched the NASA video because I couldn't pull it up the othere week when it was assigned. It was really cool to watch about what led up to landing on the moon. I also didn't realize how many different every day technologies have come from NASA. I thought they did a really good job of putting it all together fluidly, even though they talked about a lot of different random things having to do with NASA. It was a really effective video and got a lot across in a short amount of time.