Digital Storytelling

Digital storytelling is a great tool for so many reasons! First off, it is a project in which the creator can use movie makers or slideshows to add music, text, video, or even photographs to put together a movie for any purpose. In the classroom, it is a great project for educational purposes, or to teach students about a topic as well as introduce the teacher.  Another benefit of this kind of project is there is no limit to the time frame; it can be as short as 3 seconds or as long as 30 minutes.  It is easily accessed on computers as well.  For my art classroom, I would use digital storytelling as way to introduce artists into lessons, using the movies as biographies of the particular artists.  Students can use digital storytelling to demonstrate how they made specific art projects, or to put together a biography after researching a famous artist or historical art period.