Digital Storytelling Reflection

I was very pleased to have the opportunity to create a digital storytelling video for class. My group decided to do a library tour/orientation for our fictional high school Dom HS. Since it was such a limited time limited, 3-4 minutes, we wanted to hit the important topics such as hours, contact information, databases, and the online catalog. We wanted to narrate the information but also put up an outline of what we would be talking about, email addresses and other important links and text. We also wanted to add some humor to our project such as a dated student ID picture, a funny cat meme.  We knew that library orientation is not the most riveting topics so we wanted the students to enjoy it.  

I think the most important part of our digital storytelling project is the screen cast of the online catalog and library website. Students need to know how to navigate these websites in order to request books, renew and search the catalog. By only narrating directions, I think it would have been too difficult for students to navigate. We wanted to add visual instructions as well. 

My group worked really well together. We all brought something to the project. I was so pleased with our final product! I thought it had a nice personal touch to it with our photo. 

I would love to use this in the future in my own library. I think the primary aged students would love to see a video with my voice over or even a picture of me in it. They would really enjoy it.  I think I could adjust the text and script to meet the needs of my library and my students. It would save my voice and make sure that I would get all the important topics and not forget anything with all the classes. I will definitely try to make a digital storytelling for library orientation/tour for my library.