The document discusses the power of digital storytelling through various quotes. It highlights how stories are an essential part of people's lives and how they convey experiences, thoughts and emotions. One quote notes that without being taught sound and images, people could be considered illiterate. Another quote challenges young people to reach out to peers in other countries and convey truth through images and sounds.

1. Capturing Stories, Capturing Lives: The Power of Digital Storytelling David Jakes

2. “ Story is the song line of a person’s life. We need to sing it and we need someone to hear the singing. Story told. Story heard. Story written. Story read creates the web of life in words.” Christina Baldwin Storycatcher

3. “ If people aren’t taught the language of sound and images, shouldn’t they be considered as illiterate as if they left college with out being able to read or write? ” George Lucas

4. “ Ok, so I totally agree with Stephanie because this was an outstanding assignment. I mean if you had just a class for digital storytelling I would so sign up… ” High School Junior District 99, Downers Grove, IL

5. “ We are our stories. We compress years of experience, thought, and emotion into a few compact narratives that we convey to others and tell to ourselves.” Daniel Pink A Whole New Mind

6. “ Here is a challenge to the young people of our country and those on the other side of the world-- to go through the wall that separates the ambassadors and heads of state-- to reach into the hearts and minds of peers in foreign lands with the truth as we live it, as we can best convey it-- partly in image, partly in sound, but always in our own voice.” Matthew Formato Master English Teacher

7. “ I know only one thing about the technologies that await us in the future: We will find ways to tell stories with them” Jason Ohler

8. “ Knowledge is not intended to fill minds. It is intended to open them…. George Siemens Knowing Knowledge

9. “ A story should be remembered for its soul, and not the bells and whistles.” Bernajean Porter

10. “ Make the best out of the bad. Just laugh it off. You didn’t have to come here anyway So remember… every picture tells a story, don’t it?” Rod Stewart Every Picture Tells A Story

11. “ In the end, folks, we ain’t nothing but a song…a story.” Joe Lambert, Center for Digital Storytelling