This week we learned about visual literacy and how it can be used. The first link defined visual literacy and explained in depth each of its components. It was interesting to see how an artist or author can put emotion into a picture just by changing the lighting or saturation. After reading about visual literacy, we were shown some sights which explained digital storytelling. My favorite link given was to the Center for Digital Story Telling: http://www.storycenter.org/ Here, people share stories about family, history, health, and so much more through the usage of videos, pictures, and music.
As an elementary education major, I think that digital storytelling is a great tool for the classroom. With the push for using technology in education, this is a fun and easy way to use technology to enhance learning. Not only can a teacher use digital storytelling to convey ideas, but I think it would be a fun project for students to create a digital story about about something they are learning about, such as a time period in history.
I was quite surprised when I typed digital storytelling into the search bar on YouTube. There were a great number of digital stories online created by students that had to do them for projects. I did not even know what digital storytelling was until I read about it in this class. Here is an example of one of the digital stories created by a student on YouTube
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