Digital Storytelling

Welcome to a 21st century classroom!

8th graders in MzMac's West Virginia studies class are crossing the digital divide! Classes were held in the computer lab today where the students took a traditional historical timeline and transformed it into a digital story! How did they do it? Students transcribed the text material into a PowerPoint program and downloaded graphics and images to illustrate each event on the timeline. The results were awesome!

And what was the topic of these digital stories? We are currently working on a unit which begins with the settlement of Jamestown in 1607 and covers all of the early exploration of the Ohio River Valley by the English and the French.

Trouble is brewing between the French and the English. Stay tuned...