Digital Storytelling

When researching digital storytelling, I came across a very helpful diagram that breaks down creating a digital story.  It basically makes any story that you need to tell or any presentation that you need to make more interesting and more memorable.  I found this really great and helpful site, http://digitalstorytelling.coe.uh.edu/, that talked about digital storytelling from an educational perspective: "Digital Storytelling is the practice of using computer-based tools to tell stories. As with traditional storytelling, most digital stories focus on a specific topic and contain a particular point of view. However, as the name implies, digital stories usually contain some mixture of computer-based images, text, recorded audio narration, video clips and/or music. Digital stories can vary in length, but most of the stories used in education typically last between two and ten minutes."  I did not know that digital storytelling was such a big deal in the educations world.  There is also a really great video on th
at site that I enjoyed.  

When you think about it, digital storytelling is exactly what it sounds like.  It is using digital effects in telling a story.  I am starting to understand why this information would be so valuable to a teacher.  A teacher has to talk all day long to their students, and if there is a way to spice things up and get everyone more interested in what is going on, I am sure that any teacher would jump at that chance.  This class has definitely taught me more about how to use these digital enhancements.  I feel alot more comfortable with alot of basic technology, and I feel like I have learned a lot of new skills.  I guess that through my blog and glog,(which I didn't have or even understand until this class), I have been digital storytelling all summer.