This guide was written especially for educators, who want to teach 21st century skills, such as collaborating, communicating, and connecting, through digital storytelling. Free.
"Far more important to me than all the venture-capitalized consortia of elite university MOOCs (Massively Open Online Courses) and the hundreds of thousands of students flocking to them is a course taught by an adjunct professor at University of Mary Washington."
"This pilot study sought to improve the vocational learning and literacy development of learners through the making of their own digital stories. The findings were that digital story telling supports vocational learning and literacy development, reflective conversations encourage deep learning, and collaboration fosters empathy and transformative learning."
"And yes, of course, there should be a digital storytelling App. But it won't be easy to design because the hardest thing for people to learn isn't technique, it is confidence."
Zeega is an open-source HTML5 platform for creating interactive documentaries and inventing new forms of storytelling.
Zeega will make it easy to collaboratively produce, curate and publish participatory multimedia projects online, on mobile devices and in physical spaces.
Zeega is in early alpha. Sign up t