Digital storytelling is a modern approach to storytelling that allows students to tell stories digitally using images, music, voice, and text. It does not require any experience with movie making. Creating digital stories enhances technology-rich project learning and encourages students to think critically and present ideas creatively. To tell a digital story, students find a topic, map out the story, grab the audience's attention right away, tell the story from their unique perspective, use vivid language, provoke emotion, use their own voice, carefully choose images and sounds, keep the story brief and ensure it has rhythm. Examples of digital story projects include stories about authors, autobiographies, instructions, and book reports.

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