Teaching About First Aid

For my digital story, I created a story that informs or instructs educators on how to provide their students with first aid care. At first, it took me a while to pick what type of digital story I wanted to create, because I originally wanted to create a personal narrative story. Even though it was easier to find images dealing with my own life, I found it difficult to come up with a voice recorded story that I liked that went along with my pictures. I decided that I didn't want to focus the digital story on me personally, but I would rather make it more educational instead. I also decided to make a story that would be useful to other adults including teachers or parents that want to learn more about first aid care. I feel like I had more confidence speaking about this subject over other ones such as social studies or science. When I was creating the story for first aid, the most difficult part for me was figuring out how I wanted to approach my audience with the information I was giving them. As future educators, it is important for us to learn about children and first aid care in order to apply it successfully to the students in our classrooms. I decided to structure my story through giving instructions because this topic deals with specific issues.

Depending on how teachers present them, I think digital stories can provide great learning opportunities for students. It allows students to be more engaged in lessons being taught, by providing them a variety of interesting images, texts, and voices. Digital stories can also be used to inform or instruct students on certain things, like the digital story I created. Students can also be part of the digital stories themselves, which could really give students a chance to learn more about themselves and their classmates. Especially with the personal narratives, student could create stories about their own lives like an autobiography, or about their vacations and different places they have been to, where they have been or what they want to go. These stories could also allow them to imagine themselves in the future by asking them what they want to be when they grow up and why. It is important to make these stories as meaningful to the students as possible. Digital stories should not be used for educational purposes only, but should also provide students to express themselves creatively, and learn how to connect with people through the web.