In creating my own Digital story I had a great time doing it. I thought it was very simple and can be very beneficial in my joinery in becoming an educator. I learned something that many educators may overlook when designing a Digital story, which is allowing the child with disability along with peers to assist in the process. This helps promote independence and generalization of skill with the student who has the disability. In the article "Digital Stories Targeting Social Skills for Children with Disabilities: Multidimensional Learning" Cori states that "it is important to help children with disabilities begin to take ownership of learning as early as possible to avoid learned helplessness" (More 2008). This supports my reasons as to why Digital stories should be used in educational institutions.
My Digital story I created is titled "Walking Through the Hallways". This helps students with any type of disability learn appropriate behavior strategies for walking in the hallways. I picked this topic because I thought it was essential for student with disabilities, to learn age appropriate behavioral strategies while in the hallways. Also it's very important to keep them safe as they might be in schools that is mixed with students with and without disabilities from all different grades.
Here is the link https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HcdgtOOQSrs
My Digital story I created is titled "Walking Through the Hallways". This helps students with any type of disability learn appropriate behavior strategies for walking in the hallways. I picked this topic because I thought it was essential for student with disabilities, to learn age appropriate behavioral strategies while in the hallways. Also it's very important to keep them safe as they might be in schools that is mixed with students with and without disabilities from all different grades.
Here is the link https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HcdgtOOQSrs
Great post Shanice! I liked your digital social story. It covers a topic that is helpful with ALL students, haha! I also enjoyed using the program to create the digital story, but I noticed (on mine) that the voiceover did not load onto the video. Not sure if you had the same problem, but it was great nevertheless! I like that these simple stories can be easily created and molded to the specific child you are working with at the time. It's completely individualized! I agree with you too that it makes for a fun and interesting way to learn. Nice job!
ReplyDeleteThank you for your feedback. It's always good to hear your thoughts.I had the same problem with the voice over as well.
ReplyDeleteI enjoyed the topic. I think it is very important and you seemed to isolate the steps. The one thing you would need to add is your actual voice. Many students with Autism may not be readers. As such, you have to essentially read/talk to them through the story. That is part of the idea of how they work. Using the script you already wrote, you could update it for future use.
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