Digital storytelling is evolving with new media, tools, messages, and networks. New media includes portable devices under 2 pounds with billions of cells and sensory abilities. New tools allow easier access and editing of media. New messages come through student-created stories that build understanding across borders. New networks help students develop their voice and writing skills to share their stories with wider audiences. The future of digital storytelling empowers individual voices and connects people globally.

1. Digital Storytelling 2.0:
What’s Next?
David Jakes
RCAC Symposium 2009

2. Today…
jakes.editme.com

3. The Digital Storytelling Process

4. • Writing
• Accessing, evaluating
and synthesizing media
• Project management
• Technical and computer
use
• Understanding how to
use intellectual
property in an ethical
and socially acceptable
manner

5. Four
Components
New Media
New Tools
New Messages
New Networks

6. New Media

7. • 3.5
pounds or
1.6 kg
• 12 billion
cells

9. • 3.5
pounds or
1.6 kg
• 12 billion
cells
• Auditory
and optic
nerve

24. New Tools

30. media

31. media

33. New Messages

36. Water buffalo

38. “Here is a challenge to the young people of
our country and those on the other side of the
world-- to go through the wall that separates
the ambassadors and heads of state-- to
reach into the hearts and minds of peers in
foreign lands with the truth as we live it, as
we can best convey it-- partly in image, partly
in sound, but always in our own voice.”
Matthew Formato
Master English Teacher
The Digital Diplomacy Project

41. New Messages
Pangea project

42. New Networks

50. How will you help students write
themselves into existence?

51. How will you help students write
themselves into existence?

52. How will you help students
perform their writing?

53. How will you help students develop
a competitive voice?

54. How will you help students
understand the language of media?

55. The most powerful producer of
media is the individual, its you…

56. As he spoke my spirit climbed into
the sky.
I bid it to return to hear your wondrous
stories.
Return to hear your wondrous stories.
Yes

60. New Messages
and….Woodson

61. How will you help students write
themselves into existence?
How will you help students perform
their writing?
How will you help students extend
their voice for a higher purpose?

63. jakes.editme.com

65. recap
Voice
Competitive Voice
Value-added experience
New Media, New Tools, New
Messages, and New Networks