Digital Storytelling

Photo by: Davide Restivo

According to the article 7 Things You Should Know About Digital Storytelling, "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 component." It is very popular for the teachers' teaching methods and students' learning methods in today's education.

In my future teaching, I will make my students to think of a simple story or a unforgettable experience and make the script which is the digital storytelling's first step. Then let them to find the pictures or videos that related to their topic. They may cooperate in groups if their topics are similar to each other. For the first time, I would rather them to enjoy fun of doing this rather than making perfect project. Therefore, the digital storytelling won't be too long and may be created around 3 to 5 minutes. If they can learn and have interests of doing this project, then they will be willing to do the advanced narrative story or more detailed digital project in the future. 

I especially like the way that the video (The Education Uses of Digital Storytelling) said about the digital telling. He said that the project is like a "time machine" from both teachers' and students' creations via a clip to interesting images, audios and videos. Digital storytelling can be an important component of higher education because it includes an effective integration of technology with learning, an emotional connection to content, and increased ease of sharing content. These are the benefits that other project may miss.

Also, in this website, it shared some goals that both teachers and students can use through this method. For example,

Teachers can: Create a digital story for use as an anticipatory set or hook for a lesson; Enhance current lesson plans with the use of a digital story within a unit; Assign student-created stories which requires students to research a topic from a particular point of view. Students can: Learn to use the Internet to research rich, deep content while analyzing and synthesizing a wide range of content; Develop communication skills by learning to ask questions, express opinions, construct narratives and write for an audience; Increase their computer skills using software that combines a variety of multimedia including: text, still images, audio, video and web publishing.