Storytime Isn't Just for Kindergarten!
What is Digital Storytelling?
“A digital story is simply a story told using some combination of still and moving digital images, digital voiceover narrative, and digital music. Digital storytelling has empowered people in a variety of settings to tell their personal stories (Diaz, K., Fields, A., 2007)”
*Digital Storytelling brings stories to LIFE.
*Digital storytelling is a great way for teachers to introduce a new concept, explain a complex idea, or summarize a unit.
*Digital storytelling takes the fear out of presentations for students and is a tool for learning across content areas in an engaging way that is relevant in the 21st century.
To do good digital projects of any kind, it’s about designing information. Storytelling differs in that it comes from
a personal angle—you have to engage in the data and information personally.
- Bernajean Porter, the author of DigiTales: The Art of Telling Digital Stories
Elements of a Digital Story:
1. Overall Purpose of the Story
2. Narrator’s Point of View
3. A Dramatic Question (or Questions)
4. Choice of Content
5. Clarity of Voice
6. Pacing of the Narrative
7. Meaningful Soundtrack
8. Quality of the Images
9. Economy of the Story Detail
10. Good Grammar and Language Usage
An AP social studies class at my school utilizes www.goanimate4school.com to create presentations. The students are so engaged that they often do not notice anything else going on around them. They love to answer questions about their topic and explain their presentations. I can’t wait to see them when they are finished! There are some very shy students in the class and digital storytelling gives them an outlet to express themselves without the fear of standard presentations.
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