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Digital Storytelling Activity Types

Digital stories take many forms and can be used across the curriculum and across grade levels to develop writing skills. Students practice writing without even knowing it because they focus on the technology. Check out the following videos that walk through each of the categories of digital stories that are appropriate to use as instruction and as possible student-created projects.

Digital Storytelling (Each video is no longer than 10 minutes, but if you have difficulty downloading the file, click here for the PowerPoint eBook version!)

• What is a Digital Story?
• Hierarchy of Digital Story/Writing Skills
• Descriptive Stories
• Photo Essay Stories
• Sequential Stories & Narrative Essays
• Interactive Stories

Specific activities from the categories above that teach digital literacy skills while teaching writing skills include the following:

Activity Types

Storyboards

Digital Collections

Alphabet Stories

Place Stories

Digital Story Starters

Rephotography

Conceptual Dictionaries

Slice of life Stories

VIP or Digital Biographies

Oral Histories

ePhoto Albums

Predictable Stories

How To Stories

Experimental Stories

Differing View Point Stories

Time Lapse Stories

Interactive Stories

iAdventure Stories

I Spy Stories

Cumulative Stories