Digital+Stories+and+Book+Trailers

Digital storytelling is a new term and a great new way to tell stories. Some of these stories may include personal experiences, historical perspective, and community exploration. The possibilities are endless from an educational aspect. The following link is a digital story I created for one of my classes. I use my own daughters as the focus of the story and narrated sister quotes that fit their interactions with each other. The emotional connections that can be used to enhance learning are exciting. Enjoy!

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Digital Storytelling can be used with free and easy to use programs such as Photo Story 3, Windows Movie Maker, and iMovies. Digital stories are short in nature, less than eight minutes in length.

Mr. Sisson, Corral Drive's Standards Support Specialist has worked with several grade levels to create Book Trailers. Grades 2nd through 5th made a book trailer on a book of their choosing. All the students created their slides on power point and included notes for each slide. Second grade will have 5 slides in their trailer and the number of slides increases with the grade level with 10 slides needed for the 5th graders. The students were instructed not to retell the story but create an advertisement for the book instead. Once the slides were built and saved as jpegs, the students useed [|Photo Story 3] to create their trailer. Enjoy the following [|Book Trailers] made by Corral Coyote Students!

Samples of book trailers to inspire our students can be found on the the following wiki site: Book Trailers for Readers

([|Photo Story 3] is a free download)