Digital storytelling involves using computer-based tools to tell stories through a variety of multimedia elements like graphics, audio, video and text. Digital stories typically focus on a specific topic from a particular point of view, are 2-5 minutes long, and personal, historical or explore life experiences. They allow people everywhere to create and share multimedia stories electronically. Educators have also found digital storytelling to be an effective instructional tool for presenting new material, enhancing lessons, and facilitating discussion as students research topics and create their own stories.

1. ABOUT DIGITAL
STORYTELLING

2. What is Digital Storytelling?
 Digital storytelling at its most basic core is the
practice of using computer-based tools to tell stories
 digital documentaries
 computer-based narratives
 digital essays
 electronic memoirs
 interactive storytelling, etc.
 telling stories with a variety of multimedia, including
graphics, audio, video, and Web publishing.

3. What is Digital Storytelling?
focus on a specific topic
contain a particular point of view
mixture of computer-based images, text, recorded audio narration, video clips,
and/or music
length between 2 and 5 minutes
personal tales
historical events
exploring life

4. What is Digital Storytelling?
• Short, personal multimedia tales told from the heart
• Can be created by people everywhere, on any subject, and
shared electronically all over the world
• Multimedia sonnets from the people
• A gaggle of invisible histories which, when viewed together, tell
the bigger story of our time, the story that defines who we are

5. Digital Storytelling , when and where
 Center for Digital Storytelling (CDS)
Berkeley, California
since the early 1990's.
 Today
businesses
universities centers
libraries
schools
,

6. Educational Uses
 Digital Storytelling as an Effective
Instructional Tool for Teachers
a way to present new material
a way to enhance current lessons within
a larger unit
a way to facilitate discussion
a way of making abstract or conceptual
content more understandable

7. Educational Uses
 Digital Storytelling as an Effective Learning Tool
for Students
 students may be given assignments in which they are first
asked to research a topic and then choose a particular point
of view
 students begin to research and tell stories of their own as
they learn to use the library and the Internet to research
rich, deep content
 students may develop enhanced communications
 students learn to create stories for an audience, and present
their ideas and knowledge in an individual and meaningful
way
 students have the opportunity to share their work
Digital Storytelling fosters collaboration

8. The 7 Elements of Digital Storytelling
1. Point of View
2. A Dramatic Question
3. Emotional Content
4. The Gift of Your Voice
5. The Power of the Soundtrack
6. Economy
7. Pacing

9. The specific requirements of an educational
digital story
 1. The Overall Purpose of the Story
2. The Narrator’s Point of View
3. A Dramatic Question or Questions
4. The Choice of Content
5. Clarity of Voice
6. Pacing of the Narrative
7. Use of a Meaningful Audio Soundtrack
8. Quality of the Images, Video & other Multimedia Elements
9. Economy of the Story Detail
10. Good Grammar and Language Usage
 http://digitalstorytelling.coe.uh.edu/view_story.cfm?vid=409&category
id=16&d_title=History

10.  Stupeflix
 Movie maker

12. Web 2.0 Resources
 Many popular Web 2.0 resources deal with digital storytelling
and related technology tools and techniques. A small number
of these helpful sites are shown below.
 http://digitalstorytelling.coe.uh.edu/
 http://storycenter.org/blog/
 http://www.stenhouse.com/html/lmillerpodcast.htm
 http://cogdogroo.wikispaces.com/50+Ways
 http://readwriteweb.wikispaces.com/Digital+Storytelling
 http://jdorman.wikispaces.com/digitalstorytelling