Digital Story Telling

 Students want to be engaged in their own learning and inspired to develop their skills and talents, and they want to tell stories using technology. Watch this powerful plea to teachers,  Digital Storytelling – Student Perspective. By incorporating digital storytelling projects into learning, you can reach today’s students and, at the same time, help them to develop the skills they need to be successful in our complex, technology-rich world.  Digital storytelling learning projects may not be a cure-all for reluctant learners, bored students, students who have trouble retaining information, or those who are chronically late – but the experience of students and teachers in classrooms around the world confirms that this approach to learning is an exciting and compelling way to engage students in the learning process and to inspire them to become lifelong learners.
Telling digital stories enhances technology-rich project learning. Ask most students which they would rather do – write a traditional paper or create a digital story that presents their research and learning – and they will tell you, “Create a digistory!” Students of all ages enjoy creating stories, and more and more students are eager to use technological tools to create those stories. Digital storytelling, the art of combining storytelling with some mixture of digital graphics, text, recorded audio narration, video, and music to communicate information about a specific theme or topic, enables them to do both at once.