Digital Storytelling with TPACK

The content we are addressing in this activity is from the Utah State Core. Specifically, we want students to develop language through viewing media and presenting and to help students write daily to communicate effectively for a variety of purposes and audiences. The students will use their language skills to write for the purpose of creating a digital storybook for their peers. This process of writing and creating is the content that we are focusing on through this activity.

This activity has a hands-on approach for the content. By having the students arrange or create the language for their storybooks, it allows them to understand how the language works together to form the whole. By having students also create images to go along with their text, it helps reinforce comprehension. This is why this activity is a good way to teach the content.

To complete the TPACK formula, we need to look at how we use technology in our activity. The technology we use in this activity is a digital camera and a program to put the images together in a storybook form. The technology helps support both the content because they are the medium through which the students are expressing their ideas. The technology also supports our pedagogy for teaching because it allows the students to take control of their learning. Students can record the images they create with the digital camera and then arrange the images to correspond with the text to create the digital storybook. This project allows the students to make decisions on what will be best for their text and to implement those decisions. This is how all the components come together for TPACK in this activity.