Digital Storytelling...

After reviewing some of the different sites attached to this activity especially: http://www.storycenter.org/index1.html
and then watching a listening to some of the clips I was amazed at how deeply touched I was by the obvious effort, thought and feeling put into their production. Most of the clips I previewed were of personal stories, I would never have considered or even thought that storytelling through the technology/digital media would move me.
Educationally, Digital Storytelling by students is another way in which they could collaborate their efforts to digitally create a story and then post it onto one of the storytellers networks, blogs, wiki`s and the list can go on. The Learning Engagement Theory by Kearsley & Shneiderman (1999), discusses project orientated learning, this combined with the process behind successful Digital story's, give students a whole range of learning techniques based around one task. As mentioned in Digital Storytelling for Education (2009), students require writing skill, speaking and visual skills, technical skills and personal development skills. A whole range of Learning Styles/Multiple Intelligences can work together to produce a Digital Story.

Dominique

References:
Kearsley, G., & Shneiderman, B. (2008). Engagement theory: a framework for technology-based teaching and learning. Retrieved September 1, 2009, from
http://home.sprynet.com/~gkearsley/engage.htm
Digital Storytelling for Education, (2009). Retrieved August 16, 2009, from, http://www.lubbockisd.org/sfirenza/storytelling/
Gardner, H. (2008). M.I. after 20 years. Retrieved September 1, 2009, from
http://www.howardgardner.com/Papers/papers.html