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=﻿ Digital Storytelling as an Effective Tool in the Classroom =

=﻿﻿What is Digital Storytelling? =

**Objective:** ** Participants will be able to describe what is digital storytelling and how it can introduce material as well as enhance instructional planning. **
=Digital Storytelling combines a narrative with digital content to include sound, images, and video. All of these elements together allows the creator to create a short movie with a deep emotional component. The strong emotional element which is oftentimes present in a digital story is typical of what we know as the ancient art of storytelling used for generation. The main difference is that a story teller set amongst a group of listeners and began to tell a story that was filled with mystery and bravery. It drew on the emotions of the listeners to the point that they never forgot the story. Hence, generations later, the story is still being passed on with minor variations.=

=What does this mean for education? Learning theorists have long believed that storytelling can be applied to all subjects and serve as an excellent pedagogical technique. As teachers, we know the importance of telling a story, personal or not, to gain the attention and involvement of students in a lesson. Furthermore, David Jakes, Instructional Technology Coodinator for Community High School District 99 in Downers Grove, IL stated that digital storytelling represents value-added technology while helping students to develop intellectually and creatively through a language which they are familiar, technology.=

Digital Stories can consist of: Recovery Stories Love Stories Discovery Stories
 * Character Stories
 * Memorial Stories
 * Stories about an event in ones life
 * Adventure Stories
 * Accomplishment Stories
 * Other Personal Stories like


 * The storyteller should see the process as a way to guide the listener through a visual journey without having to show them pictures. **

=Take for example the following videos:=

//Example 1 with images, text, and sound // media type="youtube" key="YzWmho1rMXg" height="390" width="640"

//Example 2 with narration (audio) and images // media type="youtube" key="z23HVKjANPw" height="390" width="640"

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﻿﻿Both examples utilized various elements of multimedia. However, in the first example, the depiction of Pompeii draws more on the emotion of the viewer than in second example. Nevertheless, both examples are centered around a subject area and provides the viewer with material which will be covered, during the lesson. === === Seven Elements for Digital Storytelling ﻿ === Adapted from the Digital Storytelling Cookbook and Traveling Companion

The Center for Digital Storytelling provided these seven steps for creating effective and interesting multimedia stories. According to Lambert (2003), "Constructing a story is not a simple process that follows a recipe or prescribed formula. The elements require consideration for every story and determing the balance each element occupied in the story can take a lot of thinking and re-thinking."

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