2. What is digital storytelling?
Digital storytelling is the practice of
combining narrative with digital content,
including images, sound, and video, to
create a short movie, typically with a
strong emotional component.
3. Seven Elements of A Good Digital Story
Point ofView
◦ What is the main point of the story and what is
the perspective of the author?
Dramatic Question
◦ A conflict or a key question from the beginning
that keeps the audience’s attention until the end
of the story when the question is answered
Emotional Content
◦ The fundamental emotional paradigms such as
love and loneliness, confidence and vulnerability,
acceptance and rejection.
4. Seven Elements of A Good Digital Story
Gift ofVoice
◦ Personalizing the story with the pitch, inflection,
and speed of the voice
Power of the Soundtrack
◦ Music or other sounds that support and add
depth to the narrative
Pacing
◦ The rhythm of the story to sustain the audience’s
interest
Economy
◦ Using just enough content to tell the story
without overloading the audience (3-5 minutes)
5. Why digital story
Critical thinking skills
Research skills
Communication skills
6. Why digital story?
21st Century Skills
◦ Digital Literacy
(Digital Native ≠ Digitally literate)
- Digital literacy is the ability to find, evaluate, utilize,
share, and create content using information
technologies and the Internet.
Alan November
American educator and Educational Consultant
7. Why digital story?
21st Century Skills
◦ Media Literacy
- Media literacy is the ability to encode and decode
symbols transmitted via media and the ability to
synthesize, analyze and produce mediated messages.
Media Consumer Media Producer Self-
representation Self-identification
- To look is one thing,
To see what you look at is another,
To understand what you see is a third,
To learn from what you understand is still something
else:
To act on what you learn is all that matters.
-- Taoist saying
8. Why digital story?
21st Century Skills
◦ Visual Literacy
- The ability to interpret, negotiate, and make
meaning from information presented in the form of
an image.
◦ Information Literacy
- The ability to find, evaluate, and synthesize
information in both analog and digital formats.
◦ Global Literacy
- The ability to read, interpret, respond, and
contextualize messages from a global perspective.
9. Basic Steps
Step 1 – Select a topic and point of view
◦ What is the main point of the story and what
is the perspective of the author? Is the author
trying to inform, convince, provoke, question?
Step 2 – Develop script
◦ “We may be digital storytellers but, if we have
no story, then we have no reason even to
switch on our computer.Time spent polishing
a story idea and writing the script is time well
spent.” – Daniel Meadows
