Digital Storytelling refers to telling a story with some digital media.
Maybe it's a video, but in school it is often a media production of photos, kid's drawings, family artifacts, original digital art, or a combination of any or all, with voice narrative and /or music added. Must of all, it tells a story: a personal story, a historical narrative, the story of a place, the story of a scientific process, the story of learning, etc.
On the web, a great deal of the "digital storytelling" results refer to an adult, "my life story" living-history legacy type of project. If you add the keyword "education" into the search, you will find more of what we are interested in.
If you Google "digital Storytelling" you will get 2,520,000 results. Start with these there to save a little time:
- Begin at Digital Story Telling, Adobe Kids Club's Digital Storytelling page.
- Listen to the podcast of Helen Barrett's presentation at NECC exploring the many uses of digital stories in electronic portfolios at this Apple Learning Interchange page. You can also see the PowerPoint slides for the presentation (very small). Dr. Barrett's own web site has (more or less) the text and ideas she expressed in her talk, and all the videos are linked there (or you can find them all together at this page).
- One 4th and 5th grade teacher's story of his class project: Digital Storytelling Finds Its Place in the Classroom
- The Apple website has some very polished examples of combining Language Arts work with media here, (Chasing Metaphores) and here. (A New Life, a New Home)
- You can browse through the sites Craig Roland has gathered on his del.icio.us Digital Storytelling pages.
- On VoiceThread.com, you can look at some samples (and create some of your own, of course!) Hello, my name is Truman was created by a teacher for students to read (no audio); The three little pigs demonstrates how to use multiple "profiles" to tell a story; The ABC Collaborative Movie Project is an example of one teacher's experimenting with VoiceThread.
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