Reflections on Digital Storytelling (now that I know what that is!)

Several years ago, I spent one whole summer scanning family photo albums for my kids.  There were originally 8 photo albums that covered 31 years of my marriage,

 the birth of my kids,

 all the birthday parties

 and Christmas celebrations

 in between.  I had exhaustively covered soccer games,

 baseball tournaments and many, many golf tournaments (as well as you can actually photograph those).

 My boys shared several of these events over the years and there was no way to separate these kids lives!

     My thought was that I needed to scan all bajillion pictures and give each of them a copy.  That is what I did.  It was a much larger endeavor than I had anticipated but I was thrilled when it was done.

     When I stared this workshop on digital storytelling, I feel my work is not complete.  I think now I need to tell the story that goes along with those pictures.  There will certainly be a time when I am not around that they will be saying...now who was that lady? Or where was that taken?  Sounds like another summer's work!

     In the real world, I teach mathematics.  One of the reasons that I started this adventure is to see if there was someway to incorporate digital storytelling in my classroom.  So I searched digital storytelling in a math classroom.  I found several fun videos.  I think most of these were done as projects within a math class or a math tech class.  I had fun watching them and I have attached one here. Enjoy!