This morning, Icy Lee sent me a link to a review of “Digital Storytelling in the Classroom: New Media Pathways to Literacy, Learning and Creativity” on the journal TESL-EJ. Icy was alerting me to the book, but she didn’t know that I’d got the book already.
This book is like a textbook on the use of DST in education. Chung Chi Library has got one copy, and I’ve got one copy. So those of you who wish to borrow my copy, please let me know.
I’m delighted to learn from the review that National Institute of Education, Singapore, is doing some work on DST in their teacher education programmes. DST has flourished in ‘western’ countries for a variety of purposes: giving voice to underprivileged groups, art education, literacy education … Its application in TESOL has just begun to be explored. In Asian countries, DST is almost unheard of, in general teaching and in TEFL. So those of you who use it in your teaching will be pioneers in TESOL in the global as well as the Asian arena.
Here is the link to the review:
http://www.tesl-ej.org/wordpress/past-issues/volume13/ej50/ej50r4/
And a reminder that if you wish to view Icy’s Opportunities story again, it’s on our WebCT homepage, inside “Completed Digital Stories”. Another story which I highly recommend is “A Postcard from Prague”.
See you next Thursday, and please make an effort to turn up punctually; we have a guest speaker.
Posted by Jenny Yeung on December 1, 2009 at 5:04 am
Hi Paul,
I just got the promotion and invitation from a company for a digital storytelling competition for students in Hong Kong. I have invited some of my S.1 & S.2 students to join already and I will coach them along the way!
What a coincidence! I can make use of the skills I learnt in the course in my teaching!
Here’s the link to the company’s web site: http://wels.welnet.hk/SKY/index.html (Perhaps you have heard of it already!)
Jenny