Digital storytelling is "the practice of using computer-based tools to tell stories." In the past stories were told verbally and with ink and paper. Most digital stories still focus on a specific topic and point of view but contain a mixture of images, text, audio, video and music. Like any traditional story they can vary in length although they are normally no longer than ten minutes. Digital stories can range from personal tales, history stories, exploring ones community and anything in between. Digital stories can be shared through the web, email, iPhones, or cds making easier to share ones story with people living in different parts of the country or world.
Digital storytelling can be a great resource in a classroom. Students are able to explore writing and grammar while getting to add fun sound effects, music, images, and color to their personal stories. Students also are able to learn more about technology through the creation of digital stories, they learn how to record voices, cut clips out of songs, and edit pictures. Stories could be written in groups or individually with different requirements of length, images, and sound. This style of writing really encourages a child's development as an individual.
I really like how digital storytelling can be adapted to classes of all ages. Children can start with simple stories in 1st and 2nd grade and continue to work with the same concepts going more in depth with abstract thinking as they get older. Younger children can focus on just the creation of a story while more effects such as voice-recordings, music, and images can be introduced as the children get older.
http://digitalstorytelling.coe.uh.edu/
http://www.inms.umn.edu/elements/
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