Skills Developed Through Digital Storytelling
Digital storytelling is an essential strategy in multidisciplinary education as it involves multiliteracies such as visual, organizational, digital, informational, multicultural, oral, and written literacy skills. These skills are essential in both the Art and Humanities disciplines, as well as in the Sciences. The ability for digital storytelling to transcend time and technology as Joe Sabia (2011) states, allows for what Chung (2007) believes as the purpose of digital storytelling where the creative process is the goal rather than the end product. Working through the creative process requires using aesthetic values, hands-on critical thinking and problem-solving skills, which are all essential to 21st Century learning. Duveskog, Tedre, Sedano, & Sutinen, (2012) found that not only did digital storytelling enhance traditional storytelling, but it increased motivation by giving students the desire to write, record and present their stories in a way not previously experienced. These students from Tanzania found their storytelling voice giving them a chance to create their unique, and essential stories and share them with the world. A common result from all of the research points to students acquiring confidence in telling their stories through digital media. Confidence along with engagement in education is an essential element to allow for risk-taking and growth.
This video was created using iMovie on an iPad Mini. The process involved in telling the story, of the development of digital storytelling skills, involved research, writing a script, planning the format (storyboard), finding images, and creating the audio or narrative. The anecdotes or notes were added once the video was uploaded to YouTube. They can be viewed in any embedded YouTube application or when viewing via Chrome. These notes add another layer to the story, making it interactive and extending the content beyond the video.
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