Week 5

As we have worked through the digital story telling process, I have found it to be exactly like the writing process.  When we teach our students to write, we teach them to brainstorm.  In third grade we typically give them some kind of organizer to use, although we do teach them how to make webs, much like the one I used to gather my thoughts about my digital story.  They always do a rough draft.  Many of our students will tell you that their story is perfect, but as they learn, we all have to revise and edit our writing.  I personally, do not like writing, so I revise a ton.   My biggest struggle in creating digital stories, is figuring how to make everything work together between the talking, visual, and any music.  In my mind that is a lot of things to coordinate. When we do digital stories at school the kids are able to coordinate all three, so I figure if they can do it, so can I :-)