David Jakes on Digital Storytelling
David Jakes’ The Strength of Weak Ties: Digital Soft-telling?
Why do we do digital storytelling? I tell everyone this: it improves writing skills (it does and we have evidence) and it makes students more visually literate. But there is more. Something much more powerful…
Apparently, Digital Storytelling in education has some hot buzz write now, like podcasting and blogs and more. It’s a name for teaching and practicing multimedia literacy, and I don’t think it’s a fad, I don’t think it’s going away. I heard Joe Lambert of the Center for Digital Storytelling last fall’s National Storytelling Festival1, and he gave a keynote at the SITE conference, which was in Orlando last week concurrently with FETC. Tim Wilson of The Savvy Technologist posted an interview with Joe here.
1 Dang – I thought I had blogged it here or at timmerritt.net, but can’t find anything – what a colossal brain cramp.
April 1, 2006 at 9:31 amMike
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“hot buzz WRITE now?” Typo, or intentional double-meaning?
April 1, 2006 at 11:25 amTim Merritt
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Typo! I don’t usually make mistakes like that… thanks for the catch.