A New Life

Here is my MP3 file in response to Blogging Group B and the topic of digital storytelling.

https://netfiles.uiuc.edu/mroon2/www/Week7Response.mp3

StoryTelling

My Pets

I like Animoto because it is extremely easy to use - just add pictures and pick music. There are several drawbacks - you have no control over the picture transitions, and you cannot type or speak to your audience. It is harder to tell a story without words, so I used my pets for this video. I think Animoto would not be as useful in a classroom as voicethread would be.

StoryTelling

The Scrapblog Builder won't load on my computer. I am not sure why, but it won't let me make a video. I did go through the website to look at several videos that others have made. Scrapblog Builder is similar to voicethread in the sense that you can play a string of pictures and move between different images with arrows on the bottom. However, none of the videos I saw seemed very interesting to me because there is no speaking or music. After viewing videos on voicethread, I don't think I would ever choose to use Scrapblog Builder because it doesn't seem very captivating. As future teachers, we want our students to be interested and engaged in the lesson, so we should try to use the most interesting tools we can find.

StoryTelling

Wisconsin State Fair 2008



I absolutely love voicethread. I can choose to draw, speak, or type my thoughts and ideas. This would be an extremely useful tool in a classroom because other people can view the video and make comments about it at the same time. Because you can write on the pictures, I think this would be especially appropriate to use in a math classroom. Voicethread makes storytelling easier because you can choose to say as much or as little as you like in a variety of ways.