Digital storytelling guide for educators

This book offers an overview of digital storytelling as well as its variations, including e-portfolios, digital photo essays, and scrapblogs. The many recommendations, overviews, and explanations of digital storytelling tools, along with lists of additional digital storytelling resources, will help educators to apply this exciting technology in their classrooms. Educators will also discover the ways digital storytelling can be used for their own professional development. Digital Storytelling Guide for Educators provides detailed directions to preparation, production, and presentation, and rounds out with a discussion on creating rubrics and evaluating student work. Readers will come away with an understanding of digital stories and the tools needed to create them.

Telling stories and technology -- Introduction to digital storytelling -- What is digital storytelling? -- Why digital storytelling? -- How does digital storytelling fit in your classroom? -- Pioneers in digital storytelling -- Ideas for digital storytelling -- Open-ended questions for digital storytelling -- Steps in creating a digital story--a snapshot -- Types of digital stories -- Digital storytelling with younger students -- ISTE standards and digital storytelling -- Copyright and citation -- Resources -- Digital story preparation -- Timelines -- Concept mapping -- Storyboards or story maps -- Script writing -- Shared media resources -- Resources -- Digital story production -- Locating and evaluating media to use in the digital story -- iMovie -- Photo Story and Movie Maker -- More creativity tools for production -- Creating and editing audio files -- Resources -- Digital story presentation -- Face-to-face audience -- Remote audience -- Tools for presenting digital stories online -- Resources -- Evaluating digital storytelling projects -- Creating rubrics -- Resources -- Applying digital storytelling -- Building enthusiasm for learning -- The power of audience -- Personal connections -- Visual literacy and scrapbook stories -- ePortfolios -- Photo essays -- Resources -- Digital storytelling and family history -- Research questions -- Family history digital story ideas -- More research questions for digital stories and family history -- Resources -- Digital storytelling: a bridge to the community -- Beyond the classroom walls -- Place-based digital storytelling -- Cultural digital storytelling -- Scientific digital storytelling -- Global digital storytelling -- Open-ended questions: digital storytelling and community -- Resources -- A final word about digital storytelling.