Digital Storytelling
Note: this page links to assignments and assessment tools. For information about how to use specific software applications, check Technology Integration.
5 Ways To Enhance Instruction with Digital Narratives
Tips for success as teachers integrate digital storytelling in the classroom.
10 Tips for Dramatically Improving Your Videojournalism Stories
Many of these tips also apply to digital storytelling.
Book Talks
Students are required to read a novel of their choice. Students will then demonstrate an understanding of that novel by creating a book talk. In the book talk, students will be required to give an overview of the book, read two passages, and give an overall critique of the book. Students will create a Photostory for the presentation.
Capture Wales
An outstanding example of digital storytelling.
Center for Digital Storytelling
Interviews and articles.
DigiTales
Everything you need to help students craft a digital story is here: models, procedures, rubrics.
Digital Storytelling
This collection of links includes classroom applications and an FAQ list.
Digital Storytelling
This site offers practical tips with wit and insight.
Digital Storytelling Finds its Place in the Classroom
A teacher talks about digital storytelling in his classroom and offers step-by-step advice for those who'd like to try it in theirs.
Digital Storytelling in the Classroom
This site from Microsoft offers a download of the free application, PhotoStory 3. It also offers a free ebook on digital storytelling. Follow tabs to templates and additional information about integrating this technology.
Digital Storytelling Resource Kit
Tech4Learning offers "how-to" articles, samples, and lesson plans for digital storytelling. Registration required.
Educational Uses of Digital Storytelling
It's all here: introduction, getting started, examples, resources, and more.
Eight Tips for Telling Your Story Digitally
Advice on planning, building, and promoting digital stories. Students will especially want to know about the 7 elements listed under #1.
Interviewing Guide
This 5-page handout includes tips for a good interview and includes a model. It is designed for grades 6-12 and requires Adobe Reader for access.
Storybird
Use the art on the site to illustrate or inspire student storytelling. Good for elementary students or those writing for them.
Storytellers of the New Millennium
I liked this site from the opening paragraph: "If you don't have a good story to tell you might as well save yourself the expensive digital bells and whistles and go back to your writing table. Content is still, thankfully, king."
That's the Story of My Life: Creating Storyboards for Graphic Novels About Adolescence
Students consider stories about adolescence and adolescents, and then fictionalize a scene from their lives in storyboards for graphic novels.
