Mod 9 Digital Storytelling

Digital Storytelling is a computer-based tool to tell stories. It combines telling story with various multimedia, such as audio, video, etc. Compared with traditional storytelling, digital storytelling has a specific topic. It has different length but for education it is often 2 to 10 minutes. The topic in digital storytelling is very rich, including personal tales, historical events, literature, and so on.  John Seely Brown described digital storytelling this way: I’m particularly interested in Digital Storytelling, in new ways to use multiple media to tell stories and in the ability of kids, who are now growing up in a digital world, to figure out new ways to tell stories. They have the ability to build interpretive movies very simply and to lay sound tracks around the content. They condition or “sculpture” the context around the content. The serious interplay between context and content is key to what film—and rich media in general—are about.

I think I can use digital storytelling in my future teaching to introduce a topic like the history of English.   Digital storytelling is a new and advanced way for students learning and they may not feel boring. At the same time, they can learn knowledge. I think in this way, they will impress much more and can memorize what they have learned better.