Making the change proved to be a lot of hard work. Vicky discovered that it was
necessary to provide constant teacher support and she set up a system to monitor
progress through a system of periodic assessment so that any problems in the
development of the project could be identified and solutions found to improve the
program once issues had been analysed.
Vicky integrates technology on a daily basis with her own classes and she believes
this has proved to be highly motivating for her learners. One of her recent projects,
with three classes, of 20 learners, aged 17, has been using ‘digital storytelling’. There
are many different definitions of digital storytelling, but, as Robin (2006) says, ‘they all
revolve around the idea of combining the art of telling stories with a variety of digital
multimedia, such as images, audio, and video’.