Educational Uses of Digital Storytelling

Educational uses of digital storytelling gives a variety of options for students to listen to books or learn specific lessons with visual attributes instead of having to read actual words. With my interest in Special Education I will encounter multiple students with lower reading levels and low vision. Digital storytelling is a good resource to give an alternative for students to still engage with academic material and include themselves with their peers. The digital storytelling also provide multiple topics of interest and educational material that can not only be used in the classroom, but through out their daily lives. Digital storytelling is a good way to relay a message and make something that may not be entertaining or interesting to watch by a viewer. The digital storytelling creates a fun, interactive way to engage with literature and text. It also gives a way to access lessons or concepts through video and visual production. The pictures and voices make for an easy way for students to understand more difficult topics and concepts. I really plan on using this resource in my classroom and looking to the site for more educational uses of digital storytelling. The process that is completed to create a digital story needs to have multiple goals to engage viewers. The story should be entertaining, but informational, and should potentially have an educational goal to teach a lesson or about a topic.