Digital Photostory

My digital photostory tells a brief history of my life thus far and how I became a teacher.  For this project, I used iMovie, importing photos, music and recording audio to create it.  This was a really fun project once I got the hang of how to use iMovie.  I think it would be useful in my class in a couple ways.  As a teacher, I could use this technology to introduce myself to the class.  If I created a class blog, I could embed a "meet your teacher" video like this one, so students and parents could get to know a little more about me.

Students could also use this technology, and I think they would really enjoy it as well.  In my class, we do an entire unit on short stories, and part of our focus is on the elements of short stories: exposition, rising action, climax, falling action and resolution.  It would be a great project if students demonstrated knowledge of these elements by writing their own short stories.  They could then present them to the class using something like iMovie or Windows MovieMaker on the school's computers.  It would be a fun and creative way to present information, but it would also show me how well they grasped these short story elements.