16- In a nutshell / Digital storytelling

What is Digital Storytelling?
Digital Storytelling refers to using new digital tools to help students to tell their own real-life stories in a compelling and emotionally engaging form. It's a fantastic way to engage students and motivate them to use English. It's an extremely important oppurtunity for students to combine the longstanding art of telling stories with any variety of available multimedia tools, including graphics, audio, video animation and web publishing.
For Daniel Meadows, an academic photographer and storyteller, digital stories are "stories, personal multimedia tales told from the heart. (...) They can be created by people everywhere, on any subject, and shared electronically all over the world.

What are the benefits of Digital Storytelling?
Digital Storyytelling has a lot of benefits:
1- It helps students learn to use the Internet to research rich, deep content while analyzing a wide range of content.
2- It increases the students' computer skills.
3- It helps students learn to use the Internet to research rich, deep content while analyzing a wide range of content.
What are the elements of a Digital Story?
If we check The literature related to Digital Storytelling, we will find that the elements of Digital Storytelling can be summarized as follows:
1- Overall purpose of the story.
2- Narrator's point of view.
3- A dramatis question(s).
4- Choice of content.
5- Clarity of voice.
6- Pacing of voice.
7- Meaningful soundtrack.
8- Quality of the images.
9- Economy of the story's detail.
10- Good grammar and language usage.