Let's Learn Through Stories!

According to Digital Storytelling, digital storytelling is the practice of combining narrative with digital content, including images, sound, and video,to create a short movie, typically with a strong emotional component. Sophisticated 

digital stories can be interactive movies that include highly produced audio and visual effects, but a set of slides with corresponding narration or music constitutes a basic digital story. It is fundamentally the application of technology to the age-old experience of sharing personal narratives. With digital storytelling, students are encouraged to be creative in their learning.Therefore, it will be very helpful for my future teaching.

According to Digital Storytelling, People tell stories to teach beliefs and values to others. It is very nice and necessary to teach proper value to students via stories, a way that attract students' attention. Teaching is not always about knowledge. it can be related to value education, either. And digital storytelling can help me with that.Through playing digital stories, I can melt the values into stories, making them interesting and understandable.

According to Digital Storytelling, it connections with the subject matter of a course or with an out-of-class experience.Teaching is not all about learning in the classroom. What we have learned should be able to be applied to real life. There are many ways for teacher to reach that teaching goal, and digital storytelling can be one of them. 

Digital storytelling can help teachers organize teaching and make teaching clear. According to The Educational Uses of Digital Storytelling, teacher-created digital stories can be used to enhanced current lessons within a larger unit, as a way to facilitate discussion about the topics presented a story and as a way of making abstract or conceptual content more understandable. For example, when teaching complicated concepts, teachers can use digital storytelling to illustrate the concept, combining images or videos.  

To conclude, digital storytelling can be very helpful for teaching and learning. It not only offer teachers a way to organize and enrich their teaching, but also give students opportunities to engage in learning and to be creative.