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Digital Storytelling in K-5 Education to Enhance Literacy Skills

** //Welcome to Course 7104- Digital Storytelling in K-5 Education to Enhance Literacy Skills! Please view the short video below as an intro to digital storytelling. For a full outline of the course and expectations please refer to the course syllabus or course instructor information.// ** //** H. Rogers **// media type="youtube" key="75rOkTJ9S2U" height="315" width="560" align="center"



= // Digital storytelling in education allows students to utilize valuable 21st century skills that will allow the enhancement of literacy and writing proficiency in the K-5 educational setting. This two week course will expose teachers to the purpose and benefits of incorporating digital storytelling across all content areas. It will also give teachers the opportunity to closely explore and collaboratively develop a digital story based on the five steps involved in creating digital stories, as outlined by The University of Houston, Educational Uses of Digital Storytelling (2011). This will allow teachers to gain knowledge of the digital storytelling process and how developing a digital story will allow students to gain a deeper understanding of the content at hand. The link and impact digital storytelling has on student engagement and achievement in the classroom will also be discussed. // =

__ Course Outcomes: __
 * __ Week 1: __** Demonstrate an understanding of the impact of digital stories in the K-5 classroom and across the curriculum.
 * __ Week 1: __** Understand how digital storytelling can be incorporated to increase student’s achievement in literacy and writing.
 * __ Week 2: __** Collaboratively plan, design and create a digital story following the University of Houston’s five steps in creatinga digital story.

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