“Digital Storytelling and Presentation Tools: A proposal for fun, eye

catching, and engaging presentations”

Dimitrios VlachopoulosMalmo, 13.10.2014

Digital Storytelling

• Digital storytelling is the practice of combining narrative with digital content.

students engagement and a bigger degree of motivation

Why Digital Story Telling in Education?

•  It develops creativity and critical thinking

•  Students who are shy or afraid to talk in class get a chance to speak out their minds

•  It empowers students voice to deliver rich, deep message that is capable of conveying a powerful message.

•  It helps students explore  the meaning of their own experience, give value to it, and communicate that experience with others.

• It promotes the notions of life long learning and independent learning

•  It develops students communicative skills

 

Why Digital Story Telling in Education?

• It is a reflective process that helps students reflect upon their learning and find deep connections with the subject matter of a course or with an out-of-class experience.

•  It fosters students sense of individuality

•  It also gives students an opportunity to experiment with self-representation and establish their identity

• Students creating digital stories develop proficiency with multimedia applications

Interesting tools for digital story telling

• Zimmer Twinsis a web2.0 tool that

allows students to give vent to their imaginative powers and exercise their storytelling skills from early stages to advances ones.

Interesting tools for digital story telling

• StorybirdThis is an awesome website that

allows students and teachers to create short art inspired stories to read, share or print out.

Interesting tools for digital story telling

• PiclitsStudents can choose a picture and

start drawing or writing a text on it to create a story.

Interesting tools for digital story telling

• ACMI GENERATORThis is a creative studio space where

students explore the moving image and create their own digital stories to share with others.

Interesting tools for digital story telling

• SlidestoryThis is a free digital story telling tool

that students can use to combine sharing pictures and narration to create awesome presentations and stories to share with others

LET’S TRY IT!!!

Interesting tools for digital story telling

• WIXCreate your own webpage-CV- Course- Business

www.wix.com

QUESTIONS?