Public Library Digital Story

Our final technology project for the semester was to create a digital story that we could use in the classroom.  I chose to create a digital story about how to use a public library by doing a virtual tour of my local library.  I started by going to the Clyde W. Roddy in Dayton, TN, and taking photographs of all of the different sections that the library has, and then taking pictures illustrating how to search for books, find them, and check them out.  I then designed a project around these images and created a digital story using iMovie software.  With this software I was able to organize the photos, use transitions, add captions and caption slides, and add music.  After planning the whole thing out well it was really easy to create on iMovie.

After creating a digital story of my own I see how useful they could be in the classroom.  It would be a great way for start off the school year by showing them one about your own life and then having them to create one about their own lives.  It could also be used by students to create book reports.  Teachers could also use it various different ways to teach new material in a different fashion.  Although I used iMovie on a Mac for my project, Windows Movie Maker is a similar program that comes on Windows computers that can be used in the same way.  I have used it in the past and it works in the same way with similar end results.  I think that either program could be easily used by older elementary students to create short videos.  I look forward to making use of digital stories in my future classroom.