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   How to make such a cool stuff? Check Animoto!

You can create your own digital story with it; add photos you take,type something to record your life. Animoto provides different styles of slide shows and music played with your story.
  When I  made my first story with it, I started with checking my photos. Memories of good time with parents and friends flooded into my mind; scenery that I had seen became clear and vivacious again. Then I started to think, one of the functions by making a digital story is memory recalling. Teachers could make good use of this function in many ways. Teachers could ask students to use what they learn to make a digital story and share with each other; when students watch their videos, they review the knowledge and consolidate what they have learned. Teachers could also ask student to keep a digital diary that records their life and make a presentation to share with others.
  Another thing about digital storytelling is activating students in the classroom. The students will be motivated to present, share ideas; with teachers' help, they will find using pictures to tell a story or present something interesting is so much fun. They will also learn considering what their audience would like in order to make a attractive work, which is very important in future writing.

Storytelling--Let's do it in digital ways

You can learned some basic concepts of digital storytelling in "7 Things You Should Know About Digital Storytelling". By combining the art of telling stories with graphic, audio, video and Web publishing,

we created digital storytelling. The resources available to incorporate into a digital story are virtually limitless; they made digital stories instructional, persuasive, historical or reflective.

Digital storytelling can be used to facilitate various learning styles and connect to students’ interest in technology. There are storytelling programs promoting the notion that user with little or technical background should be able to create digital stories. In fact, a number of simple applications can be used to make digital stories, for example VoiceTread. The storyteller can use a script and add audio effects or images into the story to rich and support the emotions and ideas in it.

Creating digital stories would benefit students from thinking critically about effective combinations among audio and visual elements. It’s not just combining things together in whatever ways. Students have to think how to use them to support their ideas and consider how their audience would be attracted into their stories. Thus they could improve their logic thinking and challenge themselves to do their best while searching for resources and making decisions to accomplish their goals.

Digital storytelling can be used both by teachers and students. As I said above, digital storytelling could be a good way to assign students to tasks such like presentations and brainstorms. Students would share their stories and get feedback from others. They can improve communicating skills and competences of expressing ideas. Teachers could use digital storytelling to connect students’ interests with various topics. A history story would not be boring with pictures and sound effects in early childhood education. You could find more inspiration in "The educational uses of storytelling."