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Amanda Kasey Langston Wilson Innovation: Week 2 Application amanda.langston@waldenu.edu December 18, 2011 EdS in Educational Technology- General EDUC- 7101-2

The innovation that I feel will benefit the education field is digital story telling. Digital storytelling is the practice of using computer-based resources to tell stories that are designed by children. Porter (2010) discusses in his article about the stories that children hear from older generations and he wonders if they understand the meaning of the story. With digital story telling the students are able to tell thier story using technology. Porter states, "It is the act of telling our personal story of what we know and understand from an event or topic that provides a 'sense-making' process enabling our brains to organize a myriad of factoids while also increasing 'sticking power'” (Porter, 2010). I decided to choose digital storytelling instead of wikis and google apps because after I research this spectacular resource, and learn more about how to utlize it in the classroom then I would like to incorporate this piece of technology into my curriculum. Since I do work with students that have learning disability in reading and writing, I feel that digital storytelling with help these students have more of a creative mind when it comes to writing. "Digital storytelling encourages students with learning disabilities to write by allowing them to create their stories in an oral format" (Kaylor, 2011). Sylvester and Greenidge state that digital technologies can motivate struggling writers and scaffold understanding of traditional literacy (2009). In this article they discuss how struggling writers can benefit from using digital storytelling. Three students were studied while they used digital technology. Some were successful; some were not successful, but they did improve their writing skills.

Reference Kaylor, M. (2011). Use Digital Storytelling to Improve Your Students’ Writing Skills. //CEC Today.// Retrieved on December 16, 2011 from http://www.cec.sped.org/AM/Template.cfm?Section=CEC_Today1&TEMPLATE=/CM/ContentDisplay.cfm&CONTENTID=11288 Rogers, E. M. (2003). Diffusion of innovations (5th ed.). New York, NY: Free Press. Porter, B. (2010, June). //DigiTales: The Art of Telling Digital Stories//. Paper presented at the ISTE conference in 2010, Denver, CO. Abstract retreieved from http://center.uoregon.edu/conferences/ISTE/2010/program/search_results_details.php?sessionid=49989633&selection_id=62939425&rownumber=67&max=314&gopage=60 Sylvester, R. & Greenidge, W. (2009, December). Digital Storytelling: Extending the Potential for Struggling Writers. //The Reading Teacher//. Vol. 63, No. 4. Retrieved on December 14, 2011 from http://web.ebscohost.com.ezp.waldenulibrary.org/ehost/pdfviewer/pdfviewer?sid=f8d8db53-5c3a-4c1e-a18c-b21152d73455%40sessionmgr104&vid=4&hid=122