Digital StorytellingFor Beginners

Choose Photos That Tell a Story

Choose Photos That Tell a Story

Elements of an interesting digital story:

1. A point of view – “Wow; I didn’t know that it was so difficult to grow rice!”

2. A dramatic question – “Who lived here?”

3. Emotional content – “It made me so happy to see the children at the pre-school when they saw us coming up the path.”

4. Not too long or too short

5. Sound. Music, voice, sound effects.

Use the first person in your stories.

I’ve never seen sunflowers growing in a field before.

Dramatic Question:

How would I survive without my parents for three days?

What do the symbols in Phi Mai mean and who put them there?

Where does the food that we eat come from?

What did I learn from farmers and villagers?

Emotional Content

Connect to your audience.

Make them laugh.Make them cry.

Topics Ideas

Everyday life

Transportation

Food

Leisure Activities

Crafts

Culture

History

Compare and Contrast

Explain how Something Works

Explain the History of Something

Ask Questions

Persuade Your Audience

Themes instead of Topics

What I learned

How my thinking changed

Connections between my life and the lives of the people I visited

Taking risks and trying new things

Reaching Out to Another

Growing Up or Changing as a Person

Unexpected Outcomes

How about a poem?

Two roads diverged in a wood and II took the one less travelled byAnd that has made all the difference

You can read or write a poem for parts of your digital story

Use Quotes to Begin or End your

Story

“Tell me and I forget. Teach me and I remember. Involve me and I learn.”

Ben Franklin