7 things you should know about... Digital Storytelling / Content learning Continue

    After reading the 7 things you should know about... Digital Storytelling from www.educause.edu/eli  I learned that Digital storytelling means "combining narrative with digital content, including images, sound, and video, to create a short movie, typically with a strong emotional component."  I feel you could use this in your classroom as a group or individual activity. This is a  good activity for students due to they don't have to have much technical background knowledge to be able to create a digital story.  There are many programs online that are free  to be able to create these stories.  One way many teachers use digital storytelling could be having the student listen to a story that the teacher made and then having them create their own story in groups and or individually. Then have they create they story using digital story programs.

       After re-reading in the book Pearson Custon Education Itroduction to Educational Technology EDU 102 The Teacher Academy at NCCC, about Content Learning and talking with my teacher I learned that  content learning is a basic fact that a student has to memorize. 
Declarative is the idea of  just memorizing.
                   For example, the students will memorize the grapheme of the letters of the alphebet.
Structural  is the idea of how the students peice things together.
                  For example, students could conect the idea of grapheme and phonems together.
Procedural knowledge is the idea  of how to do something.
                   For example having the student apply what they learned during the lesson by using a game. 
                  An example of a game many elementary teachers may use is:

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Musical Letters

This is a fun game we play if the children are interested in writing letters. We place the chairs in a circle, and I place a letter and a different colored marker on each chair. While the music plays, children march around the circle holding a clipboard with paper or a dry erase board. When the music stops, they must find the closest chair, take the letter and marker and write that letter on their paper or dry erase board. You are welcome to use any kind of music that gets your students involved.
I got the idea for this game from the web site Prekinders.com.

If you would like to read more you are more than welcome to go to the website I used: Prekinders