Digital Storytelling

Once Upon A Time...

"Imagine a learning experience, supported and extended by the application of technology, that empowers students to create and contribute, all within the context of what they are expected to know and be able to do in the 21st Century. Imagine that this learning experience provides students with a compelling and competitive voice and enlarges the boundaries of their ability to communicate, potentially to a worldwide audience. That learning experience is digital storytelling.

Everyone has stories, including our students. Stories come from a variety of places, from a person's past to their imagination. Some can be funny, some can be painful, but all are personal. Digital storytelling is the process of writing about that story, and adding the multimedia elements of voice, imagery, and music to create a visual story.

• Digital storytelling develops visual and multimedia literacy in students. Digital storytelling addresses the development of the interpretation of digital media and th application of that interpretation to a personal message or story.
• Digital storytelling permits students to recapture creativity, develop it, and intensify it, apply it, extend it...
• Digital storytelling helps students write more effectively by permitting the visualization of the writing, resulting in an additional level of perception that extends the writing process to a place seldom reached.
• Digital storytelling provides an authentic personal learning experience-as such; student investment is greatly increased resulting in greatly improved motivation and end product.
• Digital storytelling teaches elements of technology and information literacy-students use many different computer applications and must be conversant about locating and managing visuals and video, as well as being able to do so in the context of copyright and fair use."

Excerpted from Capturing Stories, Capturing Lives: An Introduction to Digital Storytelling presentation by David Jakes at NYSCATE 2007

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