It can be a helpful educational tool, as it provides a vehicle for combining
digital media with innovative teaching and learning practices. Apart from building
on learners’ technology skills, digital storytelling encourages additional educational
outcomes (Dakich [2008]). It enhances learners’ motivation, and helps teachers in building constructivist
learning environments that encourage creative problem solving based on collaboration
and peer-to-peer communication. In addition, digital storytelling can be used to facilitate
integrated approaches to curriculum development, and engage learners in higher order
thinking and deep learning
lmacedopharmd on 20 Aug 13Every Thursday evening, 8:30 ET, 5:30 PT, there's a great fun live gathering on Twitter called #lrnchat. It's a fast free-for-all organized around a theme, like instructional design, virtual worlds, social learning, or e-learning myths, structured around 3 general questions. Topics will range from instructional design, training, education, etc. Begin by typing #lrnchat into the Twitter search box. If you'd like to get a look at who's likely to be there, and how the conversation will go, you can check out the transcripts. This a great way to be part of a discussion on an educational topic and great opportunity to build your network with other eLearning experts in the field...during the chat the live stream of tweets fly fast and furious!
