5) Digital Story

I was really excited to see this assignment, as it forced me to do something I have wanted to do for some time. As a history teacher I am always trying to get my students to “tell the story” of the unit they are covering and we have story telling study groups. This provides my students and myself another outlet to do this. I chose to use Animoto, which is a site that I used to create my media production for ETEC 531. I bought the upgrade so this provided a great opportunity to continue to practice with this cool tool. The story I have created tells a brief narrative of WWII, which is one of the units in the History 12 course and also one of the modules in my Moodle course.  I think that one of the limitations of this tool is that it only allows for one soundtrack at a time rather than being able to add bits and pieces of music or speeches.  Moreover, while it allows for video, they need to be video clips that are downloaded on your own computer already, which rules out a lot of useful video on sites like Youtube.  Finally, I like the fact that it will force my students to be brief in their summaries as the character count in each caption is quite small.  This will also prevent copying and pasting large amounts of text.  Enjoy! Below you will find my final edit for this assignment. After reflection and some feedback from peers I changed the original version to try and make it more narrative and have added a bit more of a personal touch by including the story of my grandfather during WWII. Thanks to those who helped with their suggestions.