Digital Storytelling

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                   Digital storytelling is a virtual tool that can entertain or enlighten any audience.  As stated by Jeniffer New in her one source titled How to Use Digital Storytelling in Your Classroom, she states that, in today's digitized world, visual storytelling is a favorite classroom tool, and the affordability and accessibility of technology such as iMovie provides opportunities not imagined a decade ago.  Digital storytelling can use a variety of text, video clips, music, narration, text, and recorded audio.  The length of these videos    can vary in length but for educational purposes, these videos usually last for two to ten minutes.  There can be a variety of themes and ideas for creating digital storytelling.  These themes and ideas can range from historical events, personal tales, and stories about planets and dogs and everything in between.  

 

         In order to fully understand digital storytelling and what it has to offer, watching this six minute video clip on Introducing Digital Storytelling will allow viewers to take into consideration the ways in which this tool can be beneficial.  

 

       The way students express their creativity and use their imagination nowadays can have kids be fully engaged in creating Digital Storytelling.  Students can use narration and clips that express their wide range of creativity.  Students can work collaboratively on creating digital storytelling that will allow them to use writing, speaking, and listening to make their story.  In a ESL or FL classroom, students can present these different digital storytelling techniques that introduces to other students their home life with pictures and possible dialogue that allow for complete interaction in the classroom.  Following the curriculum of the school is an important factor of teaching but using technology in ANY classroom will heighten students awareness of what is being taught due to the interaction, visuals, and sound opportunities that students can explore.