EDEL 3250-01

So this week in computers we continued onward with our digital stories. Malie and I are doing our digital story on Rosa Parks. We feel that Rosa Parks is a good topic because she changed how the world works today by doing one silent act. When she refused to give up her seat on the bus it changed our world history forever. She ended segregation for the most part so we can all live equal lives. I think its amazing she had the courage to do such a thing.



We have actually had some fun creating our digital story. Malie found alot of cool pictures from google of Rosa Parks and also pictures that represented her and showed what she went through along with the layout of the bus where she was sitting which i thought was way cool. While Malie found the pictures I was writing the script and I learned so many cool things about Rosa and learned what an awesome person she was. Before making this digital story i really didnt even know who she was, I had just heard of her name.



I think Digital stories are a way useful tool in the classroom. When I was in field I found an awesome one of Life during The Great Depression and The Dust Bowl. It really reached out to the kids and gave them a real sense of feeling of what it would have been like to live through those times. I think Digital Stories are a great hook for a lesson and really spice things up. I look forward to finishing ours and being able to use it as a learning tool in the future.



For my video post this week, I watched a clip on Bruner because I needed to learn more about him to do a presentation for Psychology. It was a demonstration of teaching prime numbers using beans a type of "Discovery Learning" Which Bruner is a true believer in. It was interesting and made me agree that discovery learning is a very successful technique to teaching students!