Digital storytelling is an art that combines images, music, narrative, and voice to tell a story. It provides an engaging learning experience that improves students' communication skills by blending writing, technology, and emotion. The process of creating a digital story involves students writing a story, creating a script and storyboard, finding multimedia elements, assembling the story using software, and sharing their finished product with others. Benefits of digital storytelling include developing visual and technology literacy in students, improving motivation and the quality of student work.

1. Digital StorytellingMatthew LehmanED 5700June 21, 2010

2. What is Digital Storytelling?Digital Storytelling is the modern expression of the ancient art of storytelling. Digital stories derive their power by weaving images, music, narrative and voice together, thereby giving deep dimension and vivid color to characters, situations, experiences, and insights. Tell your story now digitally.- Leslie Rule, Digital Storytelling Association

3. Why Use Digital Storytelling?Uses technology as an integrated approach to improving student’s oral, visual, and written communication skillsProvides an engaging learning experience which blends writing, technology, and emotion to create a compelling product of value

4. Steps to creating a Digital StoryStep 1: WritingStep 2: ScriptStep 3: The StoryboardStep 4: Locating MultimediaStep 5: Creating the digital storyStep 6 : Sharing

5. Step 1: WritingStudents will write a story using prompts from teacher

6. Step 2: ScriptStudents will create a script, listing the digital components they would like to include along with where they will fit into the story

7. Step 3: The StoryboardStudents will create a storyboard, which is a hand written rough draft of how they want their digital story to look

8. Step 4: Locating MultimediaStudents will use the internet to find resources to add to their digital story

9. Step 5: Creating the Digital StoryStudents will create their story using the software available

10. Step 6: SharingStudents will share their movies in class, and post them on the internet

11. What are the Benefits?• Digital storytelling develops visual and multimedia literacy in students.• Digital storytelling provides students with a competitive and compellingvoice by enlarging the boundaries of who students can communicate withand by increasing the depth and power of that communication.• Digital storytelling permits students to recapture creativity, develop it andintensify it, apply it, extend it…• Digital storytelling helps students write more effectively by permitting thevisualization of the writing, resulting in an additional level of perceptionthat extends the writing process to a place seldom reached.• Digital storytelling provides an authentic personal learning experience- assuch; student investment is greatly increased resulting in greatly improvedmotivation and end product.• Digital storytelling teaches elements of technology and informationliteracy-students use many different computer applications and must beconversant about locating and managing visuals and video, as well asbeing able to do so in the context of copyright and fair use.

12. My Digital StoryMy digital story– Coast to Coasthttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qe2TykMhD-E