Digital Storytelling Guide for Educators - Softcover

Storytelling is an age-old art form. With Web 2.0 and the tools already available on most computers, students can use text, music, sound effects, videos, and more to create a multimedia presentation that links them to the world beyond the classroom. Storytelling has the potential to unleash creativity, engage, and motivate. Applicable across the curriculum, digital storytelling teaches students to work collaboratively and use new technologies - skills they will be required to have in the workforce of the future. This book offers an overview of digital storytelling as well as its variations, including e-portfolios, digital photo essays, and scrapblogs. The many recommendations, overviews, and explanations of digital storytelling tools, along with lists of additional digital storytelling resources, will help educators to apply this exciting technology in their classrooms. Educators will also discover the ways digital storytelling can be used for their own professional development. "Digital Storytelling Guide for Educators" provides detailed directions for preparation, production, and presentation, and rounds out with a discussion on creating rubrics and evaluating student work. Readers will come away with an understanding of digital stories and the tools needed to create and assess them. This title provides assessment rubrics for each stage of digital storytelling. It aligns digital storytelling to the NETS for Students. Each chapter of this title includes a list of resources and links.

Midge Frazel, a strong believer that any educator can master using technology in the classroom, is known for her enthusiastic teaching style at the professional development workshops she conducts. A frequent contributor to the educational community, she is the author or co-author of 10 books for classroom teachers, specialists, administrators, and librarians, and she maintains a website and blog on educational technology. Frazel recently received her master's degree from Lesley University.