Digital storytelling can be a very useful tool to capture and keep students’ attention. This technique blends pictures, music, recorded messages, text, and whatever else you want to put in it. In lament’s terms, it is a pimped-out slide show. Although it seems basic and simple, there are many factors that come into play when digital storytelling.
You must have a clear purpose. Stories can range in topics from personal experience to historical events to scientific breakthroughs. There is no constraint as to what type of story is being told. Also, you need a dramatic question. This will get the students thinking and make them search for the answer throughout the rest of the story. If there is music, be sure to have relative music, not just some stock sounds from your computer. It must add to the presentation. Possibly the most important factor is the quality of images. If the pictures are grainy, over-stretched, boring, or irrelevant, no one, possibly not even you, will want to pay attention. Digital storytelling can be a good way to incorporate these things into a concise 2 to 10 minute presentation that will hold your students’ attention.
