Mar 06 2008
Digital Storytelling
I have just visited Tim’s blog and on his blog he has a post on digital storytelling. This made me think that digital storytelling would be a great task to use in a webquest activity because it shows that students have engaged in the content area and thus has created something as a result. As Gaskill, McNulty & Brooks (2006) comment, a feature of a webquest is when “learners analyse a body of knowledge, transform it in some way and demonstrate in-depth understanding of the material by creating a final product that others can react or respond to” (p.133). Therefore, digital storytelling allows for students to do this. However, it would have to feature in a longer term webquest, because making a digital story that demonstrates in-depth understanding will take a longer period of time than just one lesson.
Ref. Gaskill, M., McNulty, A. & Brooks, D.W. (2006). Learning from WebQuests. Journal of Science Education and Technology. 15 (2), pp.133-136).
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