The article that I chose to explore more thoroughly was Digital Storytelling: Capturing Children’s Participation in Preschool Activities by Lisa Kervin and Jessica Mantei.
This article discussed how Preschoolers were introduced to the idea of digital storytelling, as they were asked to choose something that they liked doing in Preschool. Students worked with a researcher to take 10 photos of them doing something in Preschool, and the researcher would help the students annotate the pictures by asking them questions about the activity or place they chose to take pictures of. Both the student and the researcher would work together to edit the images and add audio to their digital story.
This comic describes what the process mentioned in the article is like. There is definitely more to it, but this is just a general idea of what both the researcher and student do together. The researcher also tells the teacher why digital storytelling at the Preschool level is so important.
As Dr. Shutkin and I were talking about this article, we both felt that the students should be more in charge of this, and the researcher would be there to help guide them through the process. It would be fun for the students to edit their own images so it makes the digital story more authentic and personalized. I work with Preschoolers and they would have so much fun with this. Of course, they would ask a million questions, but having them do this on their own with guidance can give them the experience on what it means to create a digital story.
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ED 386 Educational Technology - Lauren's Blog 