Digital+Storytelling

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Digital storytelling is the modern way to engage in both story telling and listening to stories. This is a technology based program where there is audio storytelling mixed with still and motion pictures. -Karissa

Digital Storytelling is the practice of combining narrative with digital content, including images, sound, and video, to create a short movie, typically with a strong emotional content. Digital Stories can be instructional, persuasive, historical, or reflective. ~Becky S

﻿**Nicole Baker: Digital storytelling is the modern practice of using computer-based tools to tell stories. It combines narrative with digital content that includes graphics, audio, video, animation, and web publishing. Digital storytelling will often revolve around a theme and contain a particular viewpoint.** 
 * Digital storytelling is when students create a movie or interactive slideshow to tell their story, therefore making learning more personal. This movie or slideshow combines images, graphics, music and sounds in order to tell a personal tale.-Alyssa **

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==Digital story telling is easy to do- There are all kinds of digital stories so all you have to do is find the format you want and go to town. After the story is made you put it out there for others to view. -Karissa== Depending on the elements included in the digital story, a student might need a recording device and microphone, hardware and software to manipulate images and video, or tools to take pictures and video. It begins with a script and media is assembled to support the ideas and emotions in that script, including music or other media effects. ~Becky S

==**Digital storytelling all starts with an image! Students then incorporate audio, text or video to enhance their own story. Then the images/sounds/text/videos play like a slideshow. -Alyssa **==
 * Nicole Baker: Creating a digital story does not require any background experience. Once you learn how to do on you will be creating them all the time. [|Click to get Started] **

Why would a K-12 educator use it?
==This is a great way for every child to be read to individually with only one teacher in the classroom. The children will be able to move at their own pace. They can also make their own digital stories. This can be a great collaborative project for upper levels. For younger kids they can create a digital story with help and then hear themselves reading. Its great for teachers checking fluency too! -Karissa==

A K-12 teacher would use digital storytelling to integrate technology in the classroom and help students develop a proficiency with multimedia applications. Digital stories also lets students express themselves not only with their words, but with their own voices. Digital storytelling allows students to feel connected with the assignment and add a part of their own personal identity to it, which might make them more interested in the topic. ~Becky S
 * ﻿Nicole Baker: A K-12 teacher would want to use digital storytelling to use rich technology-integrated teaching and learning in the classroom. It is a way to teach the more difficult content and make it more understandable. Digital storytelling is a way to have students work in collaborative groups, to facilitate classroom disscusion and itegrate projects into the classroom. Digital storytelling helps to teach students as well as teachers about the world that we live in. **

** Educators should use digital story telling because it allows a student to improve their writing, show creativity and have a voice. It also allows a teacher to incorporate multimedia into their curriculum, making their lessons more applicable to 21st Century Learning.-Alyssa **

Provide examples for K-12 education:
Here are some great examples for you to view and use: Examples [|Stories]

Students in a history class could use digital storytelling to present past events in history and connect them to their own lives. Pictures and video clips could be found on the internet for students to use to complete the project. Students could also use their own pictures and videos when connecting past historical events to an event in their lives. Pictures and videos from history are often used in digital storytelling, such as this [|example] giving an introduction to what digital storytelling is. ~Becky S

**Nicole Baker: In K-12 education there is a plerthera of ways to incorporate digital storytelling into the classroom. For example, a teacher could have their students participate in a liturature circle. Students could each be given a role that they would be responsible for. The roles could include a disscussion leader, investigator, connector, a recored keeper, illistrator, and a recorder. Each group would then create a story board, an element that is necessary in digital story telling and then collaborativly create a digital storytelling.**


 * I feel that digital storytellling would be great for an introductory/ice breaker activity for students. Students would create a digital story of any elements/interests/hobbies ﻿that they would like to share with the class. After studying a particular story or genre of literature, Students could also recreate an ending to a particular story in their own, unique way. -Alyssa **