Digital storytelling refers to using computer tools to tell stories or present ideas in a narrative, multimedia format. It can combine elements like timelines, audio, video and images. Digital storytelling has benefits in schools by creating meaningful learning opportunities for students. It allows students to showcase their own learning and skills while developing technical, research and writing abilities. Elements like point of view, emotional content, pacing and soundtrack are important to an effective digital story. Photo essays also use a series of images to tell a visual narrative or story without words. Information technology uses devices to store, process and exchange electronic data and information, providing relevant information to managers and employees for decision making. It allows organizations to build customer relationships and interact with external partners.

1. DIGITAL STORY TELLING
AND PHOTO ESSAY

2. •Digital story telling

3. • INTRODUCTION
• In its simplest form, digital storytelling refers to the practice of using
computer-based tools to tell stories or present ideas (Educational Uses of Digital
Storytelling, n.d.). Digital stories have also been defined as multimedia presentations
that combine a variety of digital elements within a NARRATIVE

4. DIGITAL STORYTELLING IN SCHOOLS
• Digital storytelling creates space for meaningful
listening. Digital stories provide students with the opportunity
to digest information in a meaningful way. This is particularly
where people are bombarded with stories and information.
teachers to genuinely engage students in the story's message.

5. • Digital storytelling persuades the brain and the heart. Digital
stories can teach students the value of emotional rhetoric,
new ways of acting or thinking differently. These stories can
responses in students and encourage them to pursue topics
about.

6. • The method allows students to showcase their learning to their
peers. Students benefit not only from receiving information
through digital stories but also from making digital stories that
experiences and learnings. The many aspects of creating a
students' technical skills and hone research and writing skills

7. DIGITAL STORYTELLING TOOLS

8. • Digital storytelling is the practice of using digital tools such
as timelines, audio, videos and images to create non-traditional forms
of scholarship. We are no longer required to rely only on text to
explain concepts in our writing. Traditional online articles are now
becoming interactive storytelling experiences.

9. ELEMENTS OF AN EFFECTIVE DIGITAL
STORY
• Point of view: According to Lambert, addressing the point of
view of a digital story also defines specific concepts that the
audience to realize. Every part of the story needs to help the
realization, so defining the point of view becomes an important
process as well.

10. • Emotional content
• Effective digital stories stir an emotional reaction from the audience. Such digital
stories work to discover and pursue a new understanding rooted in the concept of
being human (

11. • Pacing: There are a number of visual and audio effects that can
help establish a digital story's pacing. Quick visual effects and
instance, suggest urgency and excitement. Meanwhile, slower
drama and contemplation

12. • Soundtrack
• A soundtrack can greatly enhance and underscore a digital story, "adding complexity and depth to the
narrative." (Digital Storytelling: Essential Elements, 2020) Moreover, Lambert (n.d.) explains that music
in a film stirs up emotional responses different from what visual information suggests. For instance, a
swelling treble of strings provides a sense of suspense, while upbeat melodies suggest happy endings.
• The soundtrack is often placed at the end of the process of creating a digital story. This makes it easier
to screen the story in a draft format first if the story's length becomes an issue.

13. OTHER ELEMENTS OF A DIGITAL STORY
• Visual design.
• Technical structure and organized content
• Engagement opportunities

14. TIPS ON CREATING AN EFFECTIVE DIGITAL
STORY
• Start with the right idea and scope. For digital storytelling,
Lasica (2010) recommends thinking small. It is best to focus on
can prevent creators from being caught in conveying all the
life, for instance. Ideally, the output will be a three to five-
small, personal truth.

15. • Show instead of telling. Creators must keep this in mind when
writing the script. The script must be written economically, with
of inferences (Orech, 2007). For instance, instead of telling the
are feeling, an effective narrator instead shows emotions

16. BENEFITS
• It captures the individual stories of students in your classroom, celebrates their
uniqueness, develops their individual voice and helps them learn that their story has
value.
• It gives students a choice about how to best tell the story they have inside them.
• Digital storytelling requires us to listen to others, building empathy and
understanding for a point of view.
• Digital Storytelling means that the true lived experience of each individual can be
shared with the class, making for a more equitable environment. (2)
• It allows students to become teachers on a regular basis.

17. • It gives a broader understanding of communication skills beyond the written word,
allowing students to communicate in the spoken word, pictures, music and art.
• Digital storytelling is closer to the kind of communication that is a part of modern social
media and allows us to help kids to understand it, while teaching them prosocial
norms and norms and prosocial behaviors for using them.
• Digital storytelling has shown to improve the social and emotional intelligence of
students. (3)
• Digital Storytelling teaches important 21st century skills such as digital literacy, global
literacy, technological literacy and Information literacy. (4)
• Digital storytelling is fun. The kids are excited to share their stories, their classmates are
excited to watch them and teachers are excited to grade them.

18. CREATE PHOTO ESSAY
INFORMATION AND COMMUNICATION TECHNOLOGY

19. INTRODUCTION
• A photographic essay is a form of visual storytelling, a way to present
a narrative through a series of images. A great photo essay is
powerful, able to evoke emotion and understanding without using
words. A photo essay delivers a story using a series of photographs
and brings the viewer along your narrative journey.

20. INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY IS THE USE OF PHYSICAL
DEVICES SUCH AS COMPUTERS TO STORE, PROCESS,
ANALYZE AND EXCHANGE ELECTRONIC DATAAND
INFORMATION.

21. INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY PROVIDES MANAGERS
AND EMPLOYEES WITH THE CONTINUOUS AND
RELEVANT STREAM OF INFORMATION FOR DECISION
MAKING, CONTROL AND COORDINATION WITHIN
THE ORGANIZATION

22. EMPLOYEES CAN CONNECT TO EACH OTHER;
ATTEND MEETINGS AND DISCUSSIONS REGARDLESS
OF TIME AND GEOGRAPHY. REGARDING THIS
GALBRAITH SAID, “USING IT AND VARIOUS
GROUPWARE TECHNOLOGIES, THE MEMBERS OF A
DEPARTMENT MAY BE SCATTERED THROUGHOUT
THE WORLD, BUT STILL HAVE THE FEELING AND
EXPERIENCE OF WORKING CLOSELY WITH ONE
ANOTHER”.

23. IT HELPS ORGANIZATIONS TO BUILD A LONG-
LASTING RELATIONSHIP WITH THE CUSTOMERS,
WHICH IN RETURN WILL MAKE A BUSINESS MORE
SUSTAINABLE AND PROFITABLE.

24. ADVANCED COMMUNICATION SYSTEM CAN BE
USED TO INTERACT WITH THE EXTERNAL
ENVIRONMENT WHICH INCLUDES SUPPLIERS,
CUSTOMERS AND STRATEGIC PARTNERS.

25. INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY COMPLETELY
CHANGED THE ORGANIZATIONAL FORMS AND
DESIGN.
THE THREE MOST CHANGED ORGANIZATION FORMS
ARE A VIRTUAL ORGANIZATION, TRADITIONAL
ORGANIZATION AND VERTICALLY INTEGRATED
CONGLOMERATE.

26. IN VIRTUAL ORGANIZATIONS, THERE IS NO NEED
FOR A SHARED OFFICE AND PHYSICAL PRESENCE OF
EMPLOYEES.

27. TRADITIONAL ORGANIZATIONS ARE THOSE
ORGANIZATIONS WHICH ARE USING TECHNOLOGY
TO MAKE SOME CHANGES IN THE STRUCTURE
WITHOUT MAKING ANY MAJOR MODIFICATIONS TO
THE ENTIRE ORGANIZATION.

28. INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY IS SHAPING THE
FUTURE OF BUSINESS.