Like paintings, personal narrative stories that mix images, graphics, sound, and music with the author's own
storytelling voice will exist over time and be enjoyed long past their creation. The ideas and content for this Digital
storytelling guide have been compiled and written by Bernajean Porter, whose book, DigiTales: The Art of Telling
Digital Stories, includes detailed step-by-step processes for bringing this emerging oral storytelling style into today's
classrooms.
Learn how software like Adobe Photoshop Elements and Adobe Premiere Elements can become effective digital
storytelling tools in your classroom. Unleash your students' imagination as they create unique, personal 3-to 5-
minute movies.
Storytelling is an age-old art form. With Web 2.0 and the tools already available on most computers, students can use text, music, sound effects, videos, and more to create a multimedia presentation that links them to the world beyond the classroom. Storytelling has the potential to unleash creativity, engage, and motivate. Applicable across the curriculum, digital storytelling teaches students to work collaboratively and use new technologies, skills they will be required to have in the workforce of the future.
This book offers an overview of digital storytelling as well as its variations, including e-portfolios, digital photo essays, and scrapblogs. The many recommendations, overviews, and explanations of digital storytelling tools, along with lists of additional digital storytelling resources, will help educators to apply this exciting technology in their classrooms. Educators will also discover the ways digital storytelling can be used for their own professional development. Digital Storytelling Guide for Educators provides detailed directions to preparation, production, and presentation, and rounds out with a discussion on creating rubrics and evaluating student work. Readers will come away with an understanding of digital stories and the tools needed to create them.