This document provides an overview of the course EME 5050: Fundamentals of Technology for Educators. It defines digital storytelling as combining narrative with digital content like images, sound, and video to create short movies typically with emotional elements. The document discusses how digital storytelling can be used in education to explain complex subjects, introduce new ideas, engage students, and summarize units. It also outlines six elements of good storytelling and how digital storytelling benefits students by encouraging collaboration, engaging multiple learning styles, and increasing digital literacy.

1. EME 5050: Fundamentals of
Technology for Educators
Dr. Kelvin Thompson
Presented by:
Hadil Ashqar
Date: Oct.23.2011

2. Generally, they all revolve around the idea of combining
the art of telling stories with a variety of digital
multimedia, such as images, audio, and video. Just about
all digital stories bring together some mixture of digital
graphics, text, recorded audio narration, video and music
to present information on a specific topic.

3. Definition:
Digital storytelling is the practice of combining narrative
with digital content, including images, sound, and
video, to create a short movie, typically with a strong
emotional component.
There are many websites explain what is the
Digital Storytelling for example:
http://edweb.fdu.edu/folio/FrancoE/ST/index.html

4. • Uses Digital Storytelling in Education:
• As Explain the Complex Subject
• To Introduce the New Ideas and New Events
• Learn the Students to Use Technology
• As Hook to Capture the Attention of Students
and Increasing their Interest in Exploring New
Ideas
• To Summarize Units.

5. • Six Elements of Good Storytelling
Living in the story Showing not telling Economizing
Lessons learned Craftsmanship Creative tension

6. • How Digital Storytelling Benefit the Students ?
• Encourages collaborative learning- students
problem solve and bounce ideas off each other
• Allows students to learn and present in their
individual learning style
• Motivating to students because it relates to their
personal experiences or interests
• Enhances writing by requiring students to
consider a wider audience, not just their teacher

7. • How Digital Storytelling Benefit the Students ?
• Allows students to share work with a large audience that
can reach outside the classroom
• Provides a non threating way for students to read their
writing aloud
• Practical and meaningful way to learn new technology
• Increases "digital literacy"

8. • The following skills have been identified and
cross-referenced with National
Standards, NETS-S
• Creativity and Inventive Thinking
• Cognitive Apprenticeship
• Enduring Understanding
• Effective Communication
• Multiple Intelligences and Learning Styles
• Teaming and Collaboration

9. • References:
• Educause Learning Initiative, 7 Things you Sould Know about… Digital Storytelling.
Jan 2007
http://net.educause.edu/ir/library/pdf/ELI7021.pdf
Digital photography and video guide, Digital storytelling, Digital
photography and video guide, 2008
• http://www.adobe.com/education/instruction/adsc/pdf/digital_storytelling.pdf
• Bernard R. Robin, The Educational Uses of Digital Storytelling, University of
Houston, 2011
• http://digitalliteracyintheclassroom.pbworks.com/f/Educ-Uses-DS.pdf
• Bernard Robin, The Educational uses of Digital Storytelling,2011
• http://digitalstorytelling.coe.uh.edu/index.html
• Digital Storytelling
• http://edweb.fdu.edu/folio/FrancoE/ST/benefits.html
• Thanks for Google Images

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