1. Digital Storytelling
A classroom tool
Me li s s a Pa re n te , Da n ie l K ie ly, C h r is K in s e ll a
a n d G il li a n Q u a s e

2. Why Choose This Topic?
Based on the growing need to integrate literacy
development at every level in a classroom.
Students learn to do what they are doing, and by using
tools that they are familiar with we will be targeting
their interests while building their skills and strengths.
The use of digital storybooks targets many different
interests, abilities and styles of learning. Thus insuring
that we are reaching as many students as possible.

3. Key Points
 What is it?
 Digital storytelling is the process of using any
different forms of media(i.e. Audio, graphics,
&video) to create a story.
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 Common programs used are: Audacity, Garage
Band, I-movie, Movie Maker, Photo Shop, etc.
 Promotes student creativity.

4. In the Classroom
• Digital story telling can be utilized in the classroom by teachers
and students to depict the various ways we could use literature in
the classroom
• Digital storytelling allows students to be creative as well as
process information on a multitude of different levels.
• Allows children to learn about different forms of technology as
well as acquire literacy skills when undertaking the project
• Helps children develop organizational skills as it requires many
different steps
• Incorporates visual learning in the classroom

5. Connecting to the QEP
• Digital stories are flexible and include: Personal Narratives, Historical documentaries,
Stories that inform/instruct.
• Teachers should “integrate ICT in the preparation and delivery of teaching/learning
activities” (QEP Professional Competency 8)
• Digital storytelling supports the 4 QEP ELA competencies
• When teachers show digital stories to instruct/inform, students “read and listen to
literary, popular and information-based texts.”
• When students create their own digital stories they are led…
- “To write self-expressive, narrative and information based texts.”
- “To represent his/her literacy in a different format.”
- “To use language to communicate and learn.”
- Quebec Education Program, http://www.mels.gouv.qc.ca/dfgj/dp/
programme_de_formation/primaire/educprg2001h.htm

6. References
• Quebec Education Program, http://www.mels.gouv.qc.ca/dfgj/dp/
programme_de_formation/primaire/educprg2001h.htm
• “The Educational Uses of Digital Storytelling,” Bernard R. Robin, Curriculum and
Instruction, University of Houston, Texas., http://digitalstorytelling.coe.uh.edu/
• -University of Houston, (2011). The educational uses of digital storytelling. Retrieved
from http://digitalstorytelling.coe.uh.edu/index.htm
• -Jonassen, D., Howland, J., Marra, R.M., & Crismond, D. (2008). Meaningful learning with
technology . Upper Saddle River, New Jersey: Pearson Merrill Prentice Hall
• http://storybird.com/books/to-dream-again/