Digital Storytelling: A Powerful Technology Tool for the 21st Century Classroom

Through digital storytelling (DST) students develop a plethora of skills, necessary to be effective in the 21st century. DST can successfully be used also by students during the difficult period of job search. Even we consider social networking as…

This chapter of Digital Storytelling in Practice examines how digital storytelling can be used to build important skills. Like traditional storytelling, Digital Story telling helps to build conceptual skills like under- standing a narrative and…

This paper presents active research examining the integration of digital storytelling using the iPad device in K12. The creation of digital stories is understood as one way to share student voice (author, 2011) and develop 21st century skills. The…

The article offers information on the use digital storytelling by some teachers as an educational tool for students. It mentions that some faculty have created digital stories to carry best practices in teaching, while others use it to get support…

Reflection is considered as important in education. In this contribution we examine to what extent digital storytelling supports in-depth reflection. Furthermore, we examine whether learner control leads to a higher degree of in-depth reflection…

Digital pathology represents an electronic environment for performing pathologic analysis and managing the information associated with this activity. The technology to create and support digital pathology has largely developed over the last decade.…

In the summer of 2004, I had the opportunity to serve as a participant/ observer in an after school program designed for inner city youth in Oakland, California. I was also able to collect interview data from students, teachers, and community…

Digital storytelling is a compelling activity for the language classroom. Easy to use for both writing and speaking practice, digital storytelling can be a good way to motivate students to use the language both inside and outside the classroom. Many…

Digital storytelling is a compelling activity for the language classroom. Easy to use for both writing and speaking practice, digital storytelling can be a good way to motivate students to use the language both inside and outside the classroom. Many…

Student-created digital storytelling projects provide a number of promising opportunities in the classroom including encouraging student voice, demonstrating deep content learning, and encouraging a greater understanding of the use of media in our…