Creating a digital story taps skills and talents - in art, media production, project development, and so on - that may otherwise lie dormant within many students but that will serve them well in school, at work, and in expressing themselves personally.
Ohler, J. (2005). The world of digital storytelling. Educational Leadership, 63(4), Retrieved from http://www.jasonohler.com/pdfs/digitalStorytellingArticle1-2006.pdf
I chose this quote because I agree with what it is saying, but it just scratches the surface of what digital storytelling can do. While digital storytelling enhances skills and talents of students it does something even more important...it gives the student a voice. Using digital storytelling will help the shy child become more comfortable and show their personality. It will help the ELL students show their knowledge instead of demanding that they express themselves in a language that is unfamiliar or that they cannot speak as freely. The video I found was an excellent example of how digital storytelling can work in a classroom. The assignment was to interview someone the students personally knew about immigration for their senior project and to make a digital story out of the information that they uncovered. The students were ELL and many were immigrants themselves. Their writing wasn't very strong to begin the project, but as it progressed they had multiple revisions and refinements that their writing improved. The project allowed the students to put a personal touch on an historical/current phenomenon that they were required to understand under 12th grade CSOs.
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