You are welcome to use your cell phone to capture images, video, or sounds while in the field. These can be brought back to the classroom for discussion. Reflections, images, and video can be woven into digital stories where learners document their lived experience in outdoor education settings. While we enter the outdoors together, we are drawn to different aspects of the environment, we notice and experience things in vastly different ways. Digital storytelling invites us to share and celebrate our unique lived experiences.

Chatterpix is another option for creative, fun, digital storytelling, described below.

ChatterPix is a creative mobile app that allows users to animate pictures with voice. Users can take a photo, draw a line to represent a mouth, and record a message to make the picture “talk.” It’s designed to be a fun and engaging way for children and adults alike to create talking pictures, which can be used for educational purposes or just for entertainment. The app is user-friendly and encourages creativity and storytelling through its simple yet effective features.

Try using Chatterpix to create something to capture your experience in the garden. You can use any one of the prompts from the QR codes.