| What is Digital Storytelling? Digital storytelling is communicating a story in first person with audio, images and/or video in a digital format. The telling of stories in a digital format originally used by the American Film Institute, was adapted and refined by Joe Lambert in the mid-1990's into a method of training promoted by the San Francisco Bay Area-based Center for Digital Storytelling. Digital storytelling is now being used in education in various ways. Instructors are using DS as an introduction to overall courses, specific content and to provide a little information about themselves to their students. ECIT’s Keys to Developing a Successful Digital Story |
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| Assemble Collect any images, video and audio you will use in your project. Your own content is often the best to help tell your story. You should always take copyright laws and guidelines into consideration when assembling content for your digital story. When, where and how you are going to deliver your digital story may impact the types of content you use. Storyboards Storyboarding is one of the essential components of developing a successful digital story. A storyboard is a visual illustration of your story, complete with your images, video and audio. Your storyboard should contain an organized workflow of aspects and events associated with your digital story. |
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Additional Resources Faculty Examples at Emory University Educational Uses of Digital Storytelling (University of Houston ) Digital Storytelling - Ohio State University Center for Digital Storytelling |
| Length In our experience, successful digital stories should range between 3 – 5 minutes in duration. Remember your audience and most importantly, your message. Script Create a script to keep yourself on track when recoding the audio for your story. You should not read directly from your script as you would a book but more less as a guide when recording. Your voice is key to telling your digital story. Record/ Remember it is a story When recording your story remember that it’s a story and it’s ok to give some personal insight. Your tone and emphasis on points in your script should be natural. Use inflection and emotion; remember, it’s “your” story. Your voice and tone bring out the personality in your digital story. Technology ECIT supports and recommends Camtasia or Windows Movie Maker on a Windows machine for building digital stories and iMovie 09 or GarageBand on a Macintosh. We recommend Audacity for recording your script, which is available on a PC and Mac platform. Review/share As you develop your story, we recommend you share it with a friend or colleague before finalizing the storyboard and then finally presenting to your intended audience. This will allow you to gain feedback, generate more ideas, find out if your story is engaging and if it is achieving your instructional goal(s). Process of creating a Digital Story 1.) Brainstorm Ideas 2.) Script 3.) Storyboard 4.) Gather Assets 5.) Edit and Produce |
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