The Media Production Process, Phases II-V 

As technology continues to evolve and become more and more available for use and consumption for students so does how they can use it in the classroom.  In my government class we do a “create a political party” project where the students are paired into random groups and they must come up with an acronym and ideology that represents the group then present it to class using CMAP tools and Prezi.  However, after reading this chapter in the book I am going to have them create a campaign ad using the guiding principles of digital story telling (DST). “Even though many software programs can be used to assemble a digital story, I recommend iMovie and Movie Maker because they are free, easy to learn and use, and generally are powerful enough to accommodate most classroom-based DST projects.”  Jason B. Ohler. Digital Storytelling in the Classroom: New Media Pathways to Literacy, Learning, and Creativity (p. 151). Kindle Edition. This quote out of the book made me think about all of the things that I could do with this free software to reach my students such as creating videos from lessons and putting them on YouTube, putting worksheets online, using this instead of PowerPoint to teach a lesson.    Furthermore, having my students and myself use these DST protocols when help them in other educational core areas such as writing.