Digital+Storytelling

=Digital Storytelling =
 * Digital Storytelling** "refers to using digital tools so that ordinary people can tell their own real-life stories." [[|x]] This may include YouTube Videos, Digital Scrapbooks, Slideshows, Timelines and more. There has been a major trend in Hollywood to include the Digital Storytelling format in their programming such as on the sketch-comedy show //[|Saturday Night Live]// and the YouTube channel turn Nickelodeon star[| FяED].

The use of the format in the field of Education is growing continuously with the advent of new technologies being available to teachers and students. Teachers are able to incorporate relative, 21st century techniques into their curriculum by having students use various programs to tell stories digitally in lieu of traditional methods of storytelling. Aside from using digital storytelling as a means to evaluate students, the medium also lends itself to use as a learning tool. = Resources: =

[|What is Digital Storytelling?] [|Digital Storytelling -- Research-Based Practice in New Media] [|Educational Uses for Digital Storytelling]

[|Digital Storytelling Tools for Your Digital Selves (Part 2)] [|Aviary: free image and audio editing tools which can be utilized right in your web browser]

3:15 (new for-profit project which expands the boundaries of "digital storytelling")

"The Future of Digital Storytelling" video "31 Favorite Digital Stroytelling Sites"

[|National Writing Project]

[|National Writing Project (deux)]

[|Inner City Digital Storytelling]

[|Deepening Student Literacy with Visual Assignments (video)]

[|Developing Literate Identities with ELLs (sign in required?)]

[|New Media Pathways to Literacy, Learning, and Creativity (sign in required?)]

= Some (Internet) Famous Digital Story Tellers! =

[|Leopold Bonar -- Professional LulCat] [|Jenna Marbles -- Blogger and Entertainer] [|FяED] [|Miranda Sings] [|Saturday Night Live's "The Lonely Island"]