A Great Tool for Presentation: Digital Storytelling

    Today, I have read a an article named 7 things you should know about Digitalstorytelling, from it, the 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.” In fact, this is a simple way to present a group of pictures. We may saw this kind of things on YouTube or in many occasions for many times before. And today I found that it makes easy for everyone to tell a story vividly and we can also make one for our teaching using.

    For language teachers, in most classes, they may have a theme to develop. A true story of the teacher told with the digital storytelling method will be a perfect opening. It could catch the students’ attention immediately and help them to understand the theme of the class better. For students, they will use several different capacities when they are asked to do a presentation with digital story telling method. They need to write a script to be the structure of the presentation, choosing the suitable music and pictures to express their content is also a challenge to young students. Sometimes they also need to work together and they need to learn to discuss with their group members. All of these abilities are necessary for students and of course they will benefit from using this method.