Digital Storytelling

Digital storytelling helped me to develop a story for my son’s blog. I have used sound slide before, but the IMovie and Animoto were easier to use. It allowed me to not only tell the story of Joshua’s everyday life, but to also show images about what he deals with on a daily basis. Digital storytelling was something that I wanted to do, but did not have the knowledge to be able to complete this type of project. I am very excited to be able to now tell not only Joshua’s story, but also the story of my daughter Julia dance competitions.

Digital storytelling is something that will benefit me as a production student. I listened to a group of Telecommunication Advisory Council members and they have informed us to learn how to tell good stories. I am currently enrolled in a news media writing class that teaches how to create stories for radio news, television news, promotional advertising, and PSAs. We are learning how to write to videos at this time telling the story of what is in the video without talking about what is on the video. Digital storytelling will me enhance my storytelling ability in productions.

The digital storytelling lesson was one that I learn a lot about. I did not know that there was a nonprofit center for digital storytelling or a definition for the term. In this digital world telling stories are a way of life. We share our stories via blogs, Facebook, YouTube, Twitter, and many other medium. I looked forward to learning IMovie and Animoto. Animoto was a cool tool to use and the video that I was able to create about my son and his genetic disease of Spinal Muscular Atrophy (SMA) was important for me to tell. The digital storytelling tools and the visual literacy tools have been great tools to learn to use. Imagine I would not have believed that there were over 50 different tools to help us tell our digital stories. I look forward to familiarizing myself with some of these tools and using them to tell my digital stories.

I chose the Discovering Digital Stories YouTube video because it states that no more do you have to be a film maker to be able to tell a digital story.