Digital+Storytelling

=What is Digital Storytelling?= Digital Storytelling is the process of writing about a story and adding the multimedia elements of voice, images and music to create a visual story. = = =Why use Digital Storytelling?= We use Digital Storytelling because...
 * it develops visual and multimedia literacy for students.
 * it develops application of digital media to represent a message or story.
 * it provides students with a voice by enlarging their boundaries of whom they can communicate.
 * it increases their power of communication.
 * it permits students to recapture creativity, develop it, intensify it, apply it, and extend it.
 * it allows students to write more effectively by permititng them to visualize their writings.
 * it gives students an opportunity to explore elements of technology and information literacy while learning the ethical use of materials as per copyright and fair use.
 * it provides an opportunity for differentiated instruction, allowing students to create as per their ability.

=Examples and Other Resources about Digital Story Telling= http://www.techteachers.com/digitalstorytelling.htm http://digitalstorytelling.coe.uh.edu/powerpoint.html http://its.ksbe.edu/dst/ http://www.digitales.us/ http://www.infotoday.com/MMSchools/jan02/banaszewski.htm http://www.jakesonline.org/storytelling.htm http://teachdigital.pbwiki.com/ds http://www.niles-hs.k12.il.us/joebre/story.htm http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Instructional_Technology/Digital_Storytelling