Digital Story

In my Integrating Technology into the Classroom class we made digital stories. I chose to do mine on one of the themes in Michael Crichton's books, namely that a lot of them are "cautionary tales" or "what could possibly go wrong? .... all of this". Here's my vid.

I can see how I could use digital stories in the classroom. Just using book themes as an example, having students use pictures and quotes from the book in order to demonstrate theme. I don't think that it is a replacement for writing a paper, but it could be a way to get a student started on such a project.

Your thoughts?