I think my digital story is coming along really well. With it being a story about the learning environment I work in, I fell like I am living in my digital story everyday. This is a real pro and con because I am thinking about my story often, but also wanting to change it often. I fell like I have a good spine of a story through last weeks planning and just want to make some revisions to it after getting my feedback from class and Professor Shannon. The biggest change I want to make is changing the POV. I got some feedback about making it the POV of one person and I really like that. The type of student I would like to try to capture as the main character is just an "average" student. The high achievers fight through it, and the lowest achievers are usually the cause of problems or not participating in general. I think this adds to the complexity of the problem, but also maybe narrows down the end goal. I will make my needed changes to my planning core, script, and board before starting on the creation of the product itself. I think getting lost in the tiny details of the product will be really easy so I want to try really hard to have a clear picture of what I want before I start that creation piece next week. I think as far as assistance I just want someone to look over a draft of my product before I present it.
Two of the resource's I am using from the reading Kapular, D. (September 7, 2018). Top 30 tools and apps for digital storytelling. Tech & Learning are Pixton and Storyboard that. I really enjoy Pixton. I am implementing in my own classroom as a more accessible way for my students with writing struggles. I don't feel I have a glaring issue in writing, but I do struggle with being artistic. I feel like Pixton removes the barrier for art from creation pieces like this as it allows to type what I want instead of make it. Storyboard I use in a pretty rudimentary way, but I still enjoy it. Sometimes what you really need is good formatting and storyboard that gave me grade formatting for my planning process.
I think the authentic audience for my creation is teachers. Especially teachers in a truly chaotic school. My story is to make people think about the balance of dealing with everyones baggage as well as needs. We can't constantly baby our kids with trauma, nor completely ignore them, and we cant assume our worst don't have a reason to be that way. Teacher's are only human so my hope is that they can remember we can simply be a calming force in the chaos. Hopefully that impact is passed on to students. I have noticed the calmest teachers that still demand high standards get the most out of students, because I think they truly crave that. I have developed a lot of planning skills from this assignment. I think I usually would have made this on the fly and not doing that has made me step back and think of what my vision is. I think a role I can play with this story is sharing it out to a couple close colleagues and getting some feedback and having better conversations about the things that are happening around us.
It is interesting that you mention how you want to change your story often, because I don't think you're alone in the thought! As teachers, we are constantly changing our minds and it is important for us to acknowledge how this happens and how it impacts our job overall.
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