Digital Storytelling

This week in TPTE we worked on creating digital stories using iMovie on the computer.  Creating digital stories using a movie maker program is a great way to get students engaged and interested in a topic.  Digital stories could be used in a music program to show students the life of a composer or to take them on a digital tour of a place such as a music performance venue.  I am creating a movie about the life of Percy Grainger, a composer who lived during the early 20th century.  I am using photos from his life and the areas he lived to show different events that were important while he was alive.  I also plan on playing music in the background that was composed by him.  This will be a good way to get students to get a more "first-hand" look at the life of a composer that they are studying.

This is a photo of Percy Grainger and his wife, Emma.