Digital Storytelling and Presentation Tools A proposal for

“Digital Storytelling and Presentation Tools: A proposal for fun, eye catching, and engaging presentations” Dimitrios Vlachopoulos Malmo, 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 selfrepresentation and establish their identity • Students creating digital stories develop proficiency with multimedia applications

Interesting tools for digital story telling • Zimmer Twins is a web 2. 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 • Storybird This 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 • Piclits Students can choose a picture and start drawing or writing a text on it to create a story.

Interesting tools for digital story telling • ACMI GENERATOR This 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 • Slidestory This 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 • WIX Create your own webpage -CV - Course - Business www. wix. co m

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