Digital Storytelling Difficulties

I think that doing a digital storytelling project in school would be such a useful and effective project. However, there will be some difficulties in doing so. Especially for younger grades. Very young grades may have difficulty doing the project on the computer. They are still too young to have taht technological knowledge and ability. One way around this would be to brainstorm with the class instead about what should be in the story, what pictures and music should be used, etc., and then the teacher puts it together before showing the final product to the class. Also, if the teacher intends for the class to each do their own video, or even work in small groups, she will have to figure out how to allow enough computer time for them all to put their videos together. She will have to make sure the computer lab is available or send groups to the classroom computers in increments throughout the day. Because this is such a fun project, the teacher will have to give very specific instructions of what is allowed and what she wants the students to produce. Otherwise, there is a lot of potential for students to take too much creative liberity and deviate from the intended lesson objective. In all though, I think this would be a great classroom project!