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Digital text is the use of text services on computers and other electronic devices. This type of text benefits both the students and the teacher. The use of this type of text can greatly benefit a teachers ability provide support, choice, and flexibility to their students, while also giving direct support to each individual students needs. Digital text can come in many forms including services to see, hear, speak, move, and many more. Here is a link that provides more information on digital text and how it benefits a classroom:
http://www.learningtechnologiesab.com/
Here are a few digital text websites:
1. http://www.sundhagen.com/babbooks/
2.http://www.learningally.org/
4.https://www.audible.com/ep/kids-audiobooks
5.http://www.teachersfirst.com/spectopics/audiobookswithtext.cfm
Another great way to use this type of text is through tools and chrome extensions. You can access these through the Chrome Web Store. Examples of the tools and extensions are:
- Read Aloud: A text to speech voice reader
- Readability: makes reading on the web more enjoyable
- Awesome Screenshot: capture a screen and add annotations and comments
- BeeLine Reader: uses a color gradient to guide the reading
Digital Stories are a type of multimedia that includes photographs, videos, animation, sound, text, and more. These stories use digital based tools to create a story. In the classroom digital stories can be uses to increase students creativity, allow for collaboration, and in depth research on subject matters. Some examples of content material that might be useful to students in Pre K- 3rd grade include taking a personal story they wrote and creating a digital story or taking an informational topic such as the water cycle and creating a digital story. Here is a link that provides more informative information on digital stories: http://edtechteacher.org/tools/multimedia/digital-storytelling/
The purpose of this digital storytelling project was to allows these students the chance to publish an original piece of writing. This project allowed students the creativity to write a story of their choice and then transform it using their own drawing and text. This project also allowed for visual aids to help them along the way. This allowed for multiple representations of the writing process.
Two forms of digital text that can help remove barriers for students while writing and support their learning are speech recognition and visual thinking tools. Speech recognition can translate voice to text. This can benefit students in communicating ideas more effectively. Visual thinking tools can help students understand, create, explain, communicate, and many more. Some examples of these tools include concept mapping, timelines, prezi, mind mapping, and brainstorming.
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