... an emerging term, one that arises from a grassroots movement that uses new digital tools to help ordinary people tell their own 'true stories' in a compelling and emotionally engaging form. These stories usually take the form of a relatively short story (less than 8 minutes) and can involve interactivity.
Digital storytelling has started to enter many classrooms and teachers are looking for various resources to utilize in their curriculum. Here are some links to get you started about digital storytelling:
> Shared Experiences, Individual Impressions: Buddies Create PowerPoint Stories
Rubrics
> Digital Storytelling Rubric
> Scott County Digital Storytelling
> HyperStudio/Powerpoint Appearance and Content
> Multimedia Project
> Video - Preproduction
> Storyboard - Multimedia
Digital storytelling can be a term with broader reference to a variety of other emergent new forms of digital narratives that includes web-based stories, interactive stories, hypertexts, and narrative computer games. The University of Houston has a great website to expand on digital storytelling called The Educational Uses of Digital Storytelling. On that site there are student examples, a software list, essentials, getting started, evaluation and other digital storytelling how-to links. Here are some outstanding social studies digital storytelling projects from the University of Houston.
Discovering Digital Stories
UMBC Faculty Explore Digital Storytelling