Digital Storytelling~Malena

Two words that come to mind when I think about digital storytelling: Time consuming! There is a lot of editing, searching and selecting that must be done. Having said that, his assignment could not have come at a better for time for me and my department because we are presenting at a conference in 2 weeks and we must bring in podcast/digital stories created by our students. I currently have 4 students creating stories about a typical day in school all in Spanish! It's like a podcast because they are recording their voices and it is a digital story because they are including pictures and clipart to talk about their school day. It is very time consuming for them to work on the stories and create them. We can not use the media center though because none of the computers are capable of burning DVDs. I think that this type of activity is fun to do for the students but the lack of available technology would make many teachers not even want to give it a try.

E books are very convenient especially for those of us who like to read but do not have the time to do so. I however would prefer an audiobook because as I listen to it I can do other things like clean or excercise.