Digital storytelling allows people to share aspects of their life story through various digital media like video, animation, audio, or images. It benefits education by increasing interest for both students and educators, which creates passion and drive to learn. Using audio and video in digital stories also helps gain and retain students' attention on the content. Educators can start creating digital stories with simple tools like digital cameras, video, or PowerPoint, making it a technology that can help students in the classroom.

1. Digital Storytelling
Benefits to students and educators

2. Digital Storytelling
What is it?
Wikipedia states that Digital storytelling refers to a short
form of digital media production that allows everyday
people to share aspects of their life story. “Media” may
include the digital equivalent of film techniques (full-
motion video with sound), animation, stills, audio only, or
any of the other forms of non-physical media (material
that exists only as electronic files as opposed to actual
paintings or photographs on paper, sounds stored on tape
or disc, movies stored on film) which individuals can use
to tell a story or present an idea.

3. Benefits to Education
Digital Storytelling increases the interest for
both students and educators. Interest in topics
creates passion and drive. When both students
and educators combined have BOTH passion
AND drive Great things happen!

4. Benefits to Education
Digital Storytelling can either be audio, video or
a combination of the two which increases the
chances of student’s attention. Attention
creates retention of content.

5. What do I need to proceed?
Digital Storytelling can be started with a digital
camera or digital video.
It can be as simple as a power point
presentation all the way up to full media
including audio, video.
As educators we need to use all the technology
available to help our students gain and retain
knowledge. Digital storytelling is another step in
the right direction!