Digital Story Telling: A Cool Tool for Your Projects

Meeting Digital Story Telling is an amazing surprise in my academic career. Who does not want to present a fresh and stunning project in his/her class? Digital Story Telling will satisfy your multiple requests for an interesting and comprehensive presentation. According to 7 Things You Should Know About 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. Well, basically, Digital storytelling is the practice of using computer-based tools to tell stories. From the scenario that provided by this article, we can see that David incorporated many sophisticated multimedia components- audio clips, narration of himself, as well as his family`s private photographs, which is very impressive to his classmates and let his classmates see another David.

 One of the earliest large-scale digital storytelling projects is sponsored by the BBC to capture and share stories from around the United Kingdom that reflect different local histories and cultures. Today the use of digital storytelling is being practiced in neighborhood community centers, schools, libraries and businesses, by novice technology users to those with advanced skills. The oral tradition of knowledge transfer and exchange has served as the basis for education and digital stories also build on this model by incorporating rich, dynamic media. “This dynamic creates an opportunity to reflect on life and find deep connections with the subject matter of a course or with an out -of-class experience, such as a trip abroad.”(7 Things You Should Know About Digital Storytelling) It will be much more fun to be an editor who organized his own experience than just being a speaker in front of the classroom.

 From the website The Educational Uses of Digital Storytelling, you can see many amazing examples made by others. And I believe you will be glad to have a try after you watched those interesting works. Technology is no longer a tangential part of education and actually, I can`t wait to applying Digital Storytelling in my next presentation now. I believe it will not disappoint us.