CINDY DIDONATO Digital Storytelling Storytelling is an ancient art that continues to teach meaningful lessons today using the web. Miss Cartier

What is digital storytelling? Short Personal Multimedia (Text, Images andAudio) Tale Two-ten minutes in duration

Subjects Topic Language Arts Social Studies Music Personal Reflection Science Storytelling Relates to Many Content Areas

More Educational Uses for Digital Storytelling Digital Storytelling Story Corps Telling Their Stories

Telling Digistories: Encourages research. Encourages creativity. Fosters critical thinking skills. Encourages students to be better writers. Gives students a voice. Helps students to connect to the outside world. Works well with portfolio assessment. Encourages students to communicate and promotes 21 st century digital literacy.

Addresses National Education Technology Standards Creativity and innovation Communication and collaboration Research and information fluency Critical thinking, problem-solving and decision- making Digital citizenship Technology operations and concepts

Create a storyboard Storyboards using Word Storyboard template Rubric for digital story Rubric

Let’s create a digital story Step 1 Create a folder on the desktop. Name it with your first name. Find 4-5 images at compfight.com. compfight.com Alternately, you can create images using: digital camera cell phone scanned text, photos or art work. Save each image to the folder.

Step 2 Open Photostory 3 by clicking on Start>Programs>Photostory 3. Look at your Using Microsoft PS 3 handout.