Digital Storytelling_Angela M. Luna

   

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    Yazdian and Diamant-Cohen describe digital storytelling as, "the process of using multimedia tools to tell a story. A digital story can be something as simple as narrating a story over a single photo or as complex as a movie with audio and visual effects." They elaborate that "Allowing children to use technology to tell stories can generate interest and motivation in content creation, ignite creativity, and support the development of twenty-first-century literacy skills." There are many tools that one can use to make this process easier, Best free digital storytelling tools for teachers lists some suggestions to use for digital storytelling, from Canva to StoryboardThat. 

Here is a link to an example of digital storytelling from the Peacehaven Community School Digital Storytelling Project :

    While I personally do not have any experience with this topic, reading about it and seeing examples shows me how valuable it is to engage in storytelling beyond traditional methods. From what I gather from my research, digital storytelling allows people to gain literacy skills by making media rather than simply consuming it. Czarnecki when speaking to a librarian at a public library regarding their digital storytelling program notes that these programs can, " Offer an engaging context for promoting and enhancing traditional literacy skills: research skills, writing skills, information-management and information assessment skills, interview skills, and presentation skills (26)." I would love to explore this topic further and bring a similar program to the library where I work. 

Works Cited

"Digital Storytelling in Different Library Settings.” Library Technology Reports, vol. 45, no. 7,             Oct. 2009, pp. 20–30. EBSCOhost, search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?                                            direct=true&db=f6h&AN=47797170&site=ehost-live&scope=site.

Kharbach, Med. “Digital Storytelling Tools for Teachers.” Educators Technology, 4 May 2024,      www.educatorstechnology.com/2023/05/some-of-the-best-free-digital-storytelling-tools-for-teachers.html.

“Peacehaven Community School Digital Storytelling Project.” Digital Storytelling,                             blogs.brighton.ac.uk/digitalstorytelling/projects/peacehaven-community-school-                    digital-storytelling-project/. Accessed 16 May 2024.

Yazdian, Lisa M.Sensale, and Betsy Diamant-Cohen. “Upping Your Digital Storytelling                     Game.” Children & Libraries: The Journal of the Association for Library Service to                     Children, vol. 21, no. 1, Spring 2023, pp. 35–36. EBSCOhost, https://doi-org-palomar-idm-oclc-org.ezproxy.palomar.edu/10.5860/cal.21.1.35.