Digital Storytelling

I am SO excited to start learning about digital storytelling! I personally think this concept is an amazing way to get students active and engaged with storytelling in the classroom. I have started playing around with some of the digital storytelling apps we recently learned about in class; but from what I have seen so far this is such a creative way for students to construct their own stories using voices, pictures, stickers, and drawings. Students enjoy telling stories to anyone willing to listen, and this gives them a fun and motivating outlet to express themselves freely, while also building vocabulary, sentence structure and even critical thinking skills!  Digital storytelling is also a great tool for teachers because it strongly helps support language, incorporates a variety of multimedia, and meets many of the developmentally appropriate practice standards. I cannot wait to learn more about using this tool in many lesson plans to come.