Ebooks are becoming more familiar in the electronic world. In our school, it hasn’t made an impact. The cost of ebooks along with the devices for use will be too costly at the moment. Along with the cost issue, the media specialist at our school does not feel that it will be used to its full capacity right now. We do have the PDAs (personal digital assistant), which is one of the devices used for ebooks. It is used in our school for Dibels at this time, we only check them out to team leaders. I viewed several electronic reference sources that the schools are familiar with for students and teachers such as EBSCO and Britannia.com, which you have to be a member of or have access to it. I don’t think our students will have a problem wanting ebooks, because students today enjoy electronic devices. Many of our younger students (K-2) enjoy their story time in the media center and having the book in their hands. The ebooks that I have seen on a low level could be great for lessons especially for students needing the assistant.
Digital storytelling is a story told with digital images, narration and music. The author of “Library 2.0 and Beyond” referred digital storytelling to allowing the story to be re told. Several subjects can be used with digital storytelling for students to do from the basic to getting very creative in formatting a story. It will certainly be helpful to teachers to enhance a lesson, and allow students to research information that they can relate to. The University of Houston gave seven elements that could be helpful to a beginner like myself:
1. Point of view
2. Dramatic question
3. Emotional Content
4. Gift of your voice
5. Power of the Soundtrack
6. Economy
7. Pacing
These elements can also be found in the textbook (Library 2.0 and Beyond by N. Courtney)and with explanations of each one. Digital Storytelling will be helpful to students with a more active outlook of their lesson.
Connie-
ReplyDeleteYour school is headed in the right direction it seems. We don't have PDAsa for our DIBELS yet. I thik you are right about the younger students still enjoying a "real book". The upper elementary, middle, and high school students would enjoy ebooks, I think. It is technology they know. What better way to get them to read than meeting them on a level they a familiar with.
I like the list you posted of helpful elements. I am a beginner myself and need direction. I think digital stories are engaging to the students and help them become more responsible and hands-on in their learning.