Digital+Storytelling+Overview

===Digital tools can enhance and expand our student’s storytelling. Their stories will still be the stories of 6 and 7 year olds, of 8 and 9 year olds, of pre-teens, of whatever age they are. Their reach should be big, but their products will be “approximations,” using that word as Katie Wood Ray does when she talks about young writers. I think what Katie says below is applicable to digital storytelling by students. From //About the Authors:Writing Workshop with Our Youngest Writers// by Katie Wood Ray with Lisa B. Cleaveland:=== “The key to believing in our students’ ability to do really big work in our writing workshops is to remember they will do it like five- and six- and seven- year olds. It will look and sound like five- and six- and seven-year olds wrote it. If we can accept this, then they can do it, whatever the it may be. If we struggle with accepting this, we might need an understanding of approximation, which has more breadth than it has previously had in conversations about young children’s writing. We need to honor the smart, theoretical thinking children have to do to approximate spelling and other language conventions. Perhaps, then, approximation is also the key to help us understand and believe more easily in their ability to do very big work as writers at such a young age.”

Make Me a Story- an excellent book on digital storytelling from Stenhouse

This Igniting Student Creativity through Digital Storytelling wiki has a lot of information and resources for digital storytelling.

Scholastic's //Guide to Digital Storytelling//

Another good site is Beyond Digital Storytelling

Making a Case for Digital Storytelling, an article by David Jakes with a quote by Daniel Pink (//A Whole New Mind//)

Why teach digital storytelling? from The Stenhouse Blog