Digital storytelling
Digital storytelling involves using computer tools to tell stories that usually include some combination of images, text, audio narration, video clips and music. Digital stories typically last 2-10 minutes and can cover personal tales or historical events. Digital storytelling has grown popular due to intersecting factors like the human need to tell stories, improved technology making story creation easier, and new online platforms allowing widespread distribution. Teachers are encouraged to use digital storytelling to enhance lessons, accelerate learning, promote student creativity, engage multiple intelligences, and make class more fun.
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Digital storytelling
- 2. What is Digital Storytelling? Digital Storytelling is the practice of using computer- based tools to tell stories. As with traditional storytelling, most digital stories focus on a specific topic and contain a particular point of view. However, as the name implies, digital stories usually contain some mixture of computer- based images, text, recorded audio narration, video clips and/or music. Digital stories can vary in length, but most of the stories used in education typically last between two and ten minutes. The topics that are used in Digital Storytelling range from personal tales to the recounting of historical events, from exploring life in one's own community to the search for life in other corners of the universe, and literally, everything in between.
- 3. We can all be creators, directors, producers, distributors of media and so can our students if we let them. As we define digital storytelling for ourselves we need to think of how we can use it in our classrooms with our students. This becomes even more challenging in the current standard driven, high stakes testing environment. But it is very important.
- 4. Why is digital storytelling blossoming so quickly? Over the past 5 years digital storytelling has become the rage due to a number of intersecting factors. It is the human need to tell stories, and it is the way we communicate. Also, the dramatic change in cost and sophistication of technology provides us the tools to create our own story. Today the level of technology available to the consumer is remarkable. As well as the explosion of locations to distribute stories. Youtube, TeacherTube, iTunesU, etc have allowed all of us to be producers and distributors of digital content. We can all become mini television studios.
- 5. -To enhance your lesson plans. -To accelerate learning. -To Allow for more creativity from your students. -To cover multiple intelligences. -To have more fun!!! Why use Digital Storytelling in your classroom?
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