In education, the various content areas do not stand alone. Instead, the students learn skills that are specific only to the content area and those that travel across the disciplines. One way that this idea of disciplinary literacy could be executed is to include student-made videos to tell a story. Perhaps the students are studying Galileo in Science, or George Washington in Social Studies. In order for students to truly realize these historical figures and their roles in our lives today, they must first study texts, watch videos, and participate in discussions. The next step in getting students to relate to their learning could be to allow the students to create a digital story that puts history into action. The students could work together in pairs or teams to become these characters of study and provide interviews or annotate their autobiography. Students could recreate important events in history that helped mold the lives we now live. Students would have to decide what facts are most critical for making the desired point. If students were to take the information that they gained from the texts, videos, and discussions, and then apply it towards the creation of their own work--they would also be working on the four 21st century skills desired for learning: critical thinking, creative thinking, collaborative thinking, and problem solving.
Some video sites that can be used with the school server to show students videos include the following:
This is a site that can be offered within school districts to provide teachers and students with a wide range of opportunities to digitally transform classrooms and learning for students. This site offers award-winning content, interactive lesson plans, formal and informal assessments, virtual experiences and videos, and classroom challenges and contents. All the content on this site is aligned to the state standards and works as a way to replace hard-copy textbooks.
This site allows teachers to find educationally-focused videos for the classroom that have been uploaded and viewed by other teachers. This is also a location where teachers can upload their own videos to add to the site. TeacherTube is intended to be a safe location for searching and viewing videos in the classroom.
With TED-Ed, teachers can use animated lessons that are available on the site exactly as they are, they can modify them, or they can create their own new lesson and submit it for animation. Lessons on ten minutes or less, and are paired with informative and engaging animations to help students grasp the concepts.
There are several websites available for students, such as Muvee Cloud, to use to create their own edited video for digital storytelling. There is also an application for tablets called Lego Movie Maker that allows students to create their own scenes and capture them in a series of sliding pictures. Students can use any props or materials that they can create or find, and it allows them to create an animated movie from fixed objects to tell a story. Students can add music, dialogue, and visual effects to their videos.
Watch this video to gain a teacher's perspective of digital storytelling in the classroom.
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