Digital Storytelling

Continuing on with the theme of visual literacy we discussed the usefulness of digital storytelling. Digital storytelling is using computer technology to create and tell a story, basically making a movie or slide show. In class we watched an example made based off of a video game. There were no words, just music and anyone watching could figure out the basic story, even a young person.

We then for homework created our own digital story. There are many useful sites that are completely free, and allow anyone interested to create their own. Some sites you can create a cartoon based on a variety of characters, sounds, and scenes that allow you to add dialogue as you go. Alternately, there are other sites, such as Animoto that allows you to upload pictures, and music. This is the one I used. I posted pictures of me playing soccer here at school, to give people an idea of what we have to go through every day as athletes at this school. I mess around with a few different sites, all were fairly easy to do and pretty fun, so anyone could do them!

With the advancement of internet and the technology era, digital storytelling will become more and more useful as resources, particularly for teachers. In addition to this digital storytelling on the news and through the media can have a huge impact on those who watch them.