So, although our digital story isn't due for a while, almost as soon as I learned about the tool, I had a use for it. We are learning about inferring in class and I had already selected a story to discuss.
Pyramus and Thisbe is a story very much like Romeo and Juliet. Pyramus erroneously infers that his love has been killed so he kills himself. In the written story, the reader knows what happens while it's happening. In the digital story I made, I omitted details that would allow the students to easily recognize what happened. Instead, they were left inferring why he killed himself and why Thisbe wasn't where she was supposed to meet Pyramus.
I taught the lesson today and the students were so interested they couldn't wait to get their hands on the written story to see what really happened. The tool is really easy to use too. I can see our students using it to create oral reports in history or language arts.
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