Digital Storytelling: Creating an Estory (Technology and Its Application)

With this powerful new teaching tool, students and educators alike can learn to find and use digital videos, digital sounds, and digital images to create personal stories for presentations and to demonstrate student learning in any curriculum area. This easy-to-follow, step-by-step process uses common software such as PowerPoint(TM) to help teachers connect what students are learning in the classroom to real life situations and problems through creating and personalizing their stories.

This teaching tool provides a software tutorial guide written for PC (IBM compatible) computers which includes five popular software programs that can be used to create digital stories. Tutorials on how to build personal stories, sample stories for grades K-12 in each chapter, illustrations, screen captures, and digital storytelling tips are just a few of the helpful guides you will find among the pages.

Adaptable projects and ideas make collaboration between teachers and library media specialists a breeze. Whether in the classroom or the library media center, educators can use Digital Storytelling: Creating and eStory to guide students through a technological learning experience that is sure to captivate imaginations and spark a new interest in story time!