Digital Story Telling

Digital story telling has now became of the best ways to communicate ones ides. The story may include simple tales for kids to social awareness stories like courage shown by lot of people. As per the old saying goes.. A picture can speak a thousand words, these digital story creating softwares can bring life to the stories. 


According to wikipedia. One can think of digital storytelling as the modern extension of the ancient art of storytelling, now interwoven with digitized still and moving images and sound. Thanks to new media and digital technologies, individuals can approach storytelling from unique perspectives.


Digital story telling in Education


In education digital story telling can do magic. Because using digital story telling tools that are freely available in the world wide web, teachers can prepare generally a 4-7 min presentations, on the required topics, which will make the students to understand those topics very efficiently. Using these latest web 2.0 tools the main topic of the study can be made directly to the point without any problems. The students can understand the point directly without much need of going through lot of study materials, and reading. This will help students in to understand the study materials directly which leads to more time for work related research.


Even the primary school teachers can also take benefits of this Digital story telling. They can create short moral stories with the help of tools such as Kerpoof studios etc. and show those interesting stories to children. Please click on the link below the image for one such example..

Princess Tansa

One other example of digital story telling is to give information regarding the latest websites that offers free education online. Different colleges and universities are using these websites to give free education to the students that are present all over the world. Here you can see one example of such way of giving information for the user..

Media Used And Idea behind:

For story for children , Princess Tansa, I have used Kerpoof Studio, this is the tool that is very simple to use and can also be used by children, in this one can create images, movies, story books etc.  The idea behind using this is to create a simple story and show how one can teach morals for the children.

The other media I have used is Windows Live Movie Maker, the idea behind creating this story is to provide information about one website that helps students all over the world, for free. I have participated and learned so much from that website, so I wanted to share that information with the students over the world.  To make it simple without annoying animations etc etc., I have created a simple paint images to make a movies.