Digital+Storytelling

Digital stories are multimedia texts consisting of still images, soundtrack, narration, transitions, print, and perhaps video. Digital stories provide affordances of aural, oral, visual, linguistic, temporal, and written modes. The overall design of digital stories requires the layering of these modes in ways that intensify the intended messages (Siegel, 2006). Moreover, the composing process for digital stories utilizes both foundational and new literacies (Skinner & Hagood, 2008; Sylvester & Greenidge, 2009).
 * What is digital storytelling?**

Here is a video about what a digital storytelling is: []

Here is an example of digital storytelling using Photo Story:
 * Examples of digital stories:**

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Here is an example of a digital story in response to a book. The book is //Elijah of Buxton//. These students used PowerPoint.

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Here is a digital story of "The Princess and the Flightless Bird":

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Here is a digital story that is told by a ten-year-old boy about his life living in the projects: []

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 * Here is a link to a video that gives reasons to use digital storytelling with students:**

This link provides an excellent introduction to using digital storytelling in the classroom: []
 * Here are some important resources to learn more about digital storytelling:**

[|http://www.storycenter.org] This is the Center for Digital Storytelling, an international nonprofit training, project development, and research organization that assists youth and adults around the world in using digital media tools to craft and record meaningful stories from their lives and share these stories in ways that enable learning, build community, and inspire justice.

[] Digital Storyteller is a web-based tool that offers teachers and students //frictionless// access to digital images and materials that enable them to construct compelling personal narratives. Digital Storyteller was developed as an initiative of Primary Access. You might check out this site to play around with making a digital story before making an original one of your own.