This document discusses how digital storytelling can promote 21st century skills. It defines digital storytelling as combining narrative with digital media like images, sound, and video to create short movies. Creating digital stories requires thinking carefully about the topic and audience. Stories typically begin with a script and include rich media like music, images, and video. Creating and viewing digital stories can increase students' information literacy and provide artifacts for e-portfolios to demonstrate learning over time. The document provides examples of digital storytelling tools and resources.