Digital Storytelling
An empirical study, Sadik (2008), analyzed student-produced stories to determine the education value of digital story-telling. The results suggest that students using digital story-telling thought more deeply about topics, personalized the learning experience and went beyond regurgitating facts and concepts about their topics; engaging in self-reflection, through imagery and language. "Students learned to think and write about people, places, events and problems that characterized their individual life experiences or others’ experiences" (Sadik, 2008).
Storyrobe: a mobile digital storytelling application
Storyrobe is a iPhone / iTouch application that allows users to attach stories to photos or videos. Students could create stories collaboratively and share them with each other. Digital storytelling has proven to be highly motivating for students inside and outside of the classroom (Reinders, 2011).
Promoting student creativity, digital storytelling gives students a voice and puts them at the center of the learning process. A survey conducted by the University of Houston (Yuksel, Robin & McNeil 2010) examined the benefits of digital storytelling in the classroom. The survey responses indicated benefits including: subject skills, reflection skills, language skills, higher thinking skills, social skills and artistic skills. These skills are reflective of how an activity like digital storytelling takes advantage of Gardner's Multiple Intelligences. Some examples: Musical-Rhythmic (student could record a music video), Bodily-Kinaesthetic (students could narrate and perform a dance on video), Interpersonal (students collaborate to create these stories), Visual-Spatial (students use images to connect to images and video).
Promoting student creativity, digital storytelling gives students a voice and puts them at the center of the learning process. A survey conducted by the University of Houston (Yuksel, Robin & McNeil 2010) examined the benefits of digital storytelling in the classroom. The survey responses indicated benefits including: subject skills, reflection skills, language skills, higher thinking skills, social skills and artistic skills. These skills are reflective of how an activity like digital storytelling takes advantage of Gardner's Multiple Intelligences. Some examples: Musical-Rhythmic (student could record a music video), Bodily-Kinaesthetic (students could narrate and perform a dance on video), Interpersonal (students collaborate to create these stories), Visual-Spatial (students use images to connect to images and video).
"[The] flexible and dynamic nature of digital storytelling, which encapsulates aural, visual and sensory elements, utilises the multitude of cognitive processes that underpin learning-from verbal linguistic to spatial, musical, interpersonal, intrapersonal, naturalist and bodily-kinaesthetic"
(Lynch and Fleming, 2007).
(Lynch and Fleming, 2007).