Digital Storytelling

I love it! I love it! I love it!

As someone who spent several years working with people and children with a disability, I can see how much benefit this could have to struggling students. I think at times these students are left behind in class because of the way information is presented. Lets say a students with a learning disablitly is in your class. Lets call her Stella.

Stella wants to join in with the group work and learn about volcanos. All the kids in the group need to go and find facts in the library. How is Stella going to make a meaningful contribution when she struggles with reading?

What if we found Stella a digital talking book about volcanos? Would Stella be able to access information in this form much more easily than written? Would Stella be able to share this information with her group? I think Stella would feel like she has made a valuable contribution rather than struggling with her reading and feeling frustrated.

And after all, what are you asking these students to do? What are you assessing them on? Is it group skills, research skills, presentation skills? Or is it reading and comprehension?

If we take the reading part out, how many students would benefit greatly?

This is just one example how this recourse is useful. Got any more?