Module 5

This module looked at digital storytelling. As a group we looked a number of different digital storytelling products such as podcasts, imovie, voki and xtranormal. The idea of digital story telling means that I can now use a variety of different digital resources to teach students current science topics. I can use these sites and sources as a way of maintaining student interest, or as a way of hoping to maintain student interest.

In terms of the module, I have actually found it confusing and quiet difficult to make sense of. I know that there are many advantages to digital sources as a way of communicating the story and content of the topic, however given that there are so many ways to communicate the story with students I feel that I would find it difficult to know which source to use to best suit the circumstances. Another thing that i noticed in terms of the many sources available in this module is that they are quiet time consuming to make. This means that it has the potential to take up too much time in class if the students are not familiar with what they are doing. The other disadvantage is that students could become distracted and start doing something of more interest to them.