Digital Storytelling

Storytelling is an art form that exists from ancient times right up to the present day. Nowadays the stories we share are often multimodal; text, still images, moving images and sound. From a storytelling perspective we have evolved from sharing fairy tales, myths and historical accounts to sharing a wide variety of stories through printed books, e-books, movies, images, videos, blogs, micro-blogs and podcasts.

This creative and innovative workshop will:

●       Explore the benefits of digital storytelling to improve the key skills of literacy, creativity, working with others, managing myself and communication.

●       Examine the effective use of images, audio, video and text to create a digital story.

●       Use digital tools that support the creation of high quality digital stories

●       Focus on methods of story planning, creating and sourcing images, capturing video and how these can tie in with the curriculum.

●       Discover how the digital storytelling process can improve students engagement in learning and students’ ability to self assess.

Tutor:  Aoife Comerford