Digital storytelling uses digital media like images, videos, and audio recordings to tell stories. It can be used in early childhood classrooms to write stories documenting learning, recapping field trips or units, or sharing daily routines. Digital storytelling promotes early literacy, language, writing, listening, cooperative play, relationship building, and technology skills.

1. Digital Storytelling in the Early
Childhood Classroom
Kimberly Campese EME 5050

2. Digital storytelling
is a way to
write stories using
digital media.

3. You can use images, videos and audio recordings to tell the story.

4. Ways to use digital storytelling
• Write a story for documentation of learning in portfolios or for conferences
• Write a story for class field trips
• Write a story as a closing project or review of a unit or theme
• Write a story as a end of the year take home gift to the children
• Write a story of the daily schedule (routine) for children

5. Benefits of using digital storytelling
• Promote early literacy skills
• Promote listening skills
• Promote cooperative play
• Promote planning and learning
from experiences
• Promotes relationship develop with
peers and adults
• Promotes language skills
• Promotes emergent writing skills
• Promotes creative expression
through the arts
• Promote technology skills,
including creativity and innovation
and communication and
collaboration