Sep 13 2006
Digital Narratives For College Entrance?
Just looking at Weblogg-ed to see a new deveopment in YouTube that really got me thinking. (Okay, I didn’t even know about YouTube until today). Apparently an on going video story called LonelyGirl15 was very popular and had many debating on it possiblly being a hoax. Personally I thought the videos were good! Defiinitly something my students would love to do!
What an amazing opportunity for our students to represent themselves to the world audience. Last year after attending a conference that featured Will Richarsdon I became very curious about the blogosphere and how I can use this to teach my Computer Applications students.
The idea of WikiTV is amazing. To just think of the implications it could have for
Junior and Sophmores who will be looking into colleges. Just imagine a student digital storytelling, but the story is about them! In fifteen minutes of time a college admissions counselor could view a digital narrative that goes so far beyond a bland essay.
A student could show volunteer work, student life, athletics, teacher interviews, slides of completed work, and share family stories with a slide show of music and pictures. School concerts, athletic events, volunteer work would no longer be simply 2 dimensional on a piece of paper but alive and breathing with the texture of storytelling.
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