Something that I've learned is that I believe that I can really get into a story and draw people in now. I am excited to use digital media to both assist and tell my stories. I think that this will be a huge benefit for me as a history teacher, because all that history is is a collection of stories. I am hoping that this class will make me fluent in creating all kinds of digital stories using all kinds of digital media.
Sunday, January 10, 2010
Week 1 reflection
I greatly enjoyed this first lesson. I believe that this class has the potential to be the most worthwhile college class that I have ever taken - I hope that it truly lives up to this. I remember back in high school when I would think I would have this great story to tell my friends about something hilarious that happened to me or that I witnessed. I would get into it, but my story would fizzle out real fast and my friends would laugh and I'd laugh because my story sucked so bad, even though what happened was really awesome. We weren't laughing for the reason that I wanted them to laugh. Slowly, I started listening to people who I thought were good story tellers. When I was sucked into listening to somebody I would ask myself, "Why do I like the way this person is talking?" So I started copying those things and now I consider myself a better story teller.
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Matthew,
ReplyDeleteI think that's a wonderful connection you make between history and storytelling. If it weren't for storytelling how would we ever learn anything about history? I share your same sentiment in this class having serious potential. In less than a week I have already learned more than probably some other semester long classes I have taken in my life. I'm looking forward to what other technologies we'll be learning in future classes.