Digital Storytelling is an art of telling stories by using computer based images, text, recorded audio narrations, video clips, and/or music. There are numerous benefits of using digital storytelling for teachers and students.

1. Benefits of Digital Storytelling
By Nadia Afzal
3/11/14

2. Digital Storytelling
• Digital Storytelling is an art of telling stories
by using computer based images, text,
recorded audio narrations, video clips,
and/or music
• Digital Storytelling is not a new practice
• Digital Storytelling enables people to share
their stories with others from anywhere and
at anytime

3. Elements of Digital Stories
• Purpose
• Narrator’s point of view
• Dramatic Question
• Choice of content
• Pacing of the narrative
• Meaningful audio soundtrack
• Grammar and Language Usage

4. An Effective Educational Tool for
Teachers
• Introduce new concepts and Ideas
• To gain students’ attention
• Explaining content
• A way of modeling how to effectively use digital
storytelling
• Reviewing Material

5. An Effective Educational Tool for
Students
• Source of generating interest, attention, and
motivation
• Student Engagement
• Source of increasing Communication and
collaboration

6. An Effective Educational Tool for
Students cont.
• Meets the needs of different learning styles
• Provides hands on learning experience
• Promotes digital literacy
• Promotes creativity
• Source of increasing literacy skills

7. Technological Tools and Techniques to
use Digital Storytelling
• Blogs
• Podcast
• Wiki
• Pinterest
• Scoop it
• Voice Thread

8. References
• http://digitalstorytelling.coe.uh.edu/
• https://net.educause.edu/ir/library/pdf/ELI70
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