Reflecting on your experience of creating a digital story, discuss what you have learnt about what digital storytelling is and what it is not.
Through the readings across INF533 and my creation of the digital narrative, Sticking Around, I have come to understand the following about digital storytelling (DS):
- DS is more than the act of reading or comprehending a text, it is about developing different skills through different modes – i.e. writing, speaking, and communicating skills, information literacy, visual literacy, media literacy, language skills, auditory skills, drama skills, presentation skills, listening skills, and publishing skills (Tolisano, 2015).
- DS empowers learners in ways that traditional storytelling cannot (Johnson et al., 2015).
- DS is about transformation, not simply substituting traditional stories (Mills & Levido, 2011).
- DS is often collaborative and social, engaging readers in opportunities to share, connect, and respond with in the digital narrative community; and beyond (Pan et al., 2021).
- DS is about sharing perspective and experiences, creating meaning, and allowing for the amplification of voice (Deoksoon & Li, 2021).
- DS is immersive and often interactive (Edwards, 2013).
- DS can be personalised to support the different needs of students (Hovious et al., 2021).
- DS should be an organic part of curriculum learning and be a balanced or integrated part of a school library (O’Connell, 2015).
References
Deoksoon, K., & Li, M. (2021). Digital storytelling: Facilitating learning and identity development. Journal of Computers in Education, 8, 33-61. https://doi.org/10.1007/s40692-020-00170-9
Edwards, J. T. (2013). Reading beyond the borders: observations on digital ebook readers and adolescent reading practices (ch. 9). In J. Whittingham, & IGI Global (Eds.), Technological tools for the literacy classroom (pp. 135-158). Hershey, PA: IGI Global.
Hovious, A., Shinas, V. H., & Harper, I. (2021). The compelling nature of transmedia storytelling: Empowering twenty first-century readers and writers through multimodality. Technology, Knowledge and Learning, 26, 215-229. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10758-020-09437-7
Johnson, L., Adams Becker, S., Estrada, V., & Freeman, A. (2015). NMC Horizon Report: 2015 K-12 Edition. The New Media Consortium. http://www.nmc.org/publication/nmc-horizon-report-2015-k-12-edition/
Mills, K. A., & Levido, A. (2011). iPed: pedagogy for digital text production. The Reading Teacher, 65(1), 80-91. https://doi.org/10.1598/RT.65.1.11
O’Connell, J., Bales, J., & Mitchell, P. (2015). [R]Evolution in reading cultures: 2020 vision for school libraries. The Australian Library Journal, 64(3). https://doi.org/10.1080/00049670.2015.1048043
Pan, Z., López, M. F., Li, C., & Liu, M. (2021). Introducing augmented reality in early childhood literacy learning. Research in Learning Technology, 29. https://doi.org/10.25304/rlt.v29.2539
Tolisano, S. R. (2015, August 18). Digital storytelling: What it is… and… what it is NOT. Langwitches. http://langwitches.org/blog/2015/08/18/digital-storytelling-what-it-is-and-what-it-is-not/