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=The Art of Digital Storytelling = Digital Storytelling is the latest direction in the art of storytelling. Storytelling has been used throughout time by cultures around the world to impart knowledge and traditions. Through digital storytelling, stories can be told to a much larger audience and in many more diverse ways. Educators are only beginning to explore the use of digital storytelling in the classroom. Upon examination, it becomes apparent that that digital storytelling would further standards-based teaching in a variety of ways. http://digitalstorytelling.coe.uh.edu/alignment.html

==__**Take Six:** **Elements of Good Digital Storytelling ** __ == //**by Bernajean Porter** (used with permission) //  // While there are endless approaches to crafting stories, depending on purpose and audience, at least six elements are considered fundamental to this particular storytelling style //.
 * **Living Inside Your Story**—The perspective of each story is told in first person using your own storytelling voice to narrate the tale. Rather than a detached telling that this happened and that happened, viewers experience you living inside this story.
 * **Unfolding Lessons Learned**—One of the most unique features of this specific digital storytelling style is the expectation that each story express a personal meaning or insight about how a particular event or situation touches you, your community, or humanity.
 * **Developing Creative Tension**—A good story creates intrigue or tension around a situation that is posed at the beginning of the story and resolved at the end, sometimes with an unexpected twist. The tension of an unresolved or curious situation engages and holds the viewer until reaching a memorable end.
 * **Economizing the Story Told**—A good story has a destination—a point to make—and seeks the shortest path to its destination. The art of shortening a story lies in preserving the essence of the tale—using the fewest words along with images and sound to make your point.
 * **Showing Not Telling**—Unlike traditional oral or written stories, images, sound, and music can be used to show a part of the context, create setting, give story information, and provide emotional meaning not provided by words. Both words and media need to reveal through details rather than named or simply stated.
 * **Developing Craftsmanship**—A good story incorporates technology in artful ways, dem-onstrating craftsmanship in communicating with images, sound, voice, color, white space,animations, design, transitions, and special effects. Ask yourself whether your media resources are decorating, illustrating, or illuminating.

**Developing your product. Where to start? Remember it is about the content and then the tool. **



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 * ==[|Digital Storytelling from Arizona Learning Interchange]==

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 * ==<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">[|50 Ways to Tell a Digital Story] ==
 * ==<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">[|The Art of Telling a Digital Story] ==
 * ==<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">[|Electronic Portfolios] ==
 * ==<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">[|Center for Digital Story Telling] ==