Digital Storytelling

Digital storytelling involves the amalgamation of story telling and digital multimedia. Now how can you get better than that? Everything children love all rolled into one fantastic tool. Or should I say ‘Funtastic’. Engagement couldn’t get any easier.

Teachers create contexts for engagement when they provide prominent knowledge goals, real-world connections to reading, meaningful choices about what, when, and how to read, and interesting texts that are familiar, vivid, important, and relevant.

Guthrie 2000

Digital Stories can be:

• Personal Narratives
  Historical and
  Informative.

Digital Stories can be used in different ways:

Teachers can use them to tell stories or give information
Or they can be used for the student to complete stories or create stories of their own.

Because digital stories can cover a myriad of topics teachers can cater to the interests of all the students. The graphics, audio and other multimedia applications capture the interest of the students while being relevant to their experiences.

Digital Storytelling allows for the acquisition and development of other literary skills in students such as Research skills, Writing skills and Organizational skills just to name a few.

This tool to me is by far the most exciting of all that I have come across. The possibilities are endless.