Digital storytelling

         Story telling in general has many benefits in intercultural understanding, in the classroom, commonalities of cultures around the world, and performance techniques.

- Read more; (Storytelling- benefits and tips)

        Digital story telling is a tool is a useful tool in teaching in which teachers can make use of it to "make abstract concepts real to their children" according to what has been reported in Jennifer New (2014). (http://www.edutopia.org/use-digital-storytelling-classroom)

        From my experience in this technology course I have been informed the importance of using storytelling in the classroom and how we can create digital storytelling for lecturing. I have an experience of the role storytelling provides in classroom such as engagement, entertainment, comprehensive understanding in fiction and reading courses. However, after taking this topic in the course, I realize the power of it.

       - Digital storytelling in the classroom;

       I have faced a challenge in knowing the programs I can use to create digital storytelling, and a challenge in knowing different types of it. I have searched to learn more, then I found what I need to know.

·         Programs for creating digital storytelling;

a.       PhotoStory3

b.      Story Bird

c.       Digital Vaults

-          Read more; http://edtechteacher.org/index.php/teaching-technology/presentation-multimedia/digital-storytelling

·         Types of digital storytelling;

a. Personal/Narrative Stories

b. Stories that Inform or Instruct

c. Stories that Examine Historical Events

-           Read more; http://writing2.richmond.edu/writing/wweb/digitalstory/digstorytypes.html

       I hope the usage of digital storytelling spreads among teachers widely in future. This can be achieved by providing workshops to emphasize its importance and benefits in teaching and education in general. Clearly, Lectures with the help of this tool can give good impression on the course to make more interaction and more concentration, and it becomes a subordinator for teachers while having lectures.

• This is my product; digital storytelling (Preparing for winter; the grasshopper and the ant)

- I used PowToon to create the storytelling because I could not download PhotoStory3 to my laptop. I found it very easy and interesting program.