Digital Story Telling

Digital Story telling is the use of technology tools to tell stories. Much like traditional story telling many digital stories focus on a specific topic and contain a particular view point. Digital stories are usually compiled from a mixture of computer based images, texts, audio recordings, music or video clips. Digital stories usually vary in length, with topics ranging from personal experienced to recounting historical events. New technologies allow digital stories to be shared over the internet, on discs, podcasts, or other electronic distribution systems. Digital storytelling combines the art of storytelling with multimedia features such as photography, animation, text, audio, voice-over, and video. Digital story telling is a modern extension of ancient storytelling using modern tools woven together to tell a story.

Digital story telling in the classroom is a wonderful resource for students, students can create a movie or an interactive slide show telling their story. Allow students to tell their digital story makes learning more personal. Through digital story telling students will improve their writing, show creativity and share their voice. Benefits of digital story telling using an array of technology tools which allows students to really express themselves creatively. Technology tools are used by students to take simple content and make a meaningful story. Students will use new software and technologies, along with chosen images and voice inserts to make their story personal. 

I think digital story telling is a fantastic idea to creatively express ideas and merge traditional story telling with technology. I especially like that anyone who has access to a computer can create a digital story. Digital stories can be written from a personal stand point or based on a class lesson. The stories can also be short or longer depending on the content. Content-related digital stories can help upper-elementary and middle-school students understand abstract or layered concepts.