The document discusses using digital storytelling in the classroom to engage students and help them develop creativity, communication, and technology skills. Digital storytelling allows students to express themselves by sharing thoughts and ideas with an audience. It can be used across the curriculum and captures students' attention through a fun new way of telling stories using computer tools. Research suggests digital storytelling provides a potent learning experience by teaching 21st century skills.

1. By: Leslie Weitermann
EME 5050

2. “Digital storytelling is the
practice of using
computer based tools to
tell stories.”
Educational Uses of Digital Storytelling
http://digitalstorytelling.coe.uh.edu/page.cfm?id=27&cid=27&sublinkid=29

3. Digital Storytelling will allow my students:
 To express their creativity
 To develop their communication skills
 To share their thoughts and ideas to an
audience
 To develop 21st century technology skills
 To capture their attention and engage in
learning

4.  I can use digital storytelling throughout the
curriculum in my classroom.
 Digital storytelling is a great way to engage
my students in learning by capturing their
attention.
 I think digital storytelling is a new way to tell
stories in a fun and exciting way!

5. " Digital storytelling can be a
potent learning experience
that encompasses much of
what society hopes that
students will know and be
able to perform in the 21st
century. “
- Bernard Robin

6. University of Houston(2008). The Educational
Uses of Digital Storytelling. Retrieved March
13, 2015 from
http://digitalstorytelling.coe.uh.edu/