𝐃𝐢𝐠𝐢𝐭𝐚𝐥 𝐒𝐭𝐨𝐫𝐲𝐭𝐞𝐥𝐥𝐢𝐧𝐠/𝐍𝐚𝐫𝐫𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐯𝐞 + 𝐒𝐭𝐨𝐫𝐲𝐛𝐢𝐫𝐝: 𝐂𝐫𝐞𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐦𝐲 𝐨𝐰𝐧 𝐬𝐭𝐨𝐫𝐲 𝐰𝐢𝐭𝐡 𝐒𝐭𝐨𝐫𝐲𝐛𝐢𝐫𝐝! 🐦

Hi curious people on the Internet, welcome back to my blog! I'm thrilled to share and talk about today's contents with you: Digital Storytelling (Digital Narrative), Storybird and finally My Own Story! (Making Friends with Nature)

📚 What is Digital Storytelling/Narrative?

Digital narrative or often called as ''Digital Storytelling'' is a form of digital media production that provides people with digital & life stories, creative imaginings, pictures and some inspiring ideas from the Internet as an interactive tool. Users of digital storytelling can write their story online and share various aspects of their story with the digital tools everyday. Individuals can also make up a story and present or ask about their ideas to other people by using film techniques, stills, pictures, audio tools and many more! Digital storytelling is now seen as ''a new practice'' for people who are willing to tell their story to the world through digital tools. New forms of storytelling on the Internet are presented with the advent of media production techniques & ways & hardware and software such as digital cameras, digital audio tools, digital voice recorders and examples would be Microsoft Photos, Microsoft Movie, Microsoft 365 Business Voice and many more.

📚 Digital Storytelling vs. Digital Narrative?

Digital storytelling, as a digital media production, can cover a range of digital narratives such as interactive stories & narrative computer games & hypertexts and web-based stories. By commercial and non-profit enterprises it is sometimes used as film-making tool in general to describe & display advertising and promotion efforts.

📚 Who is A Digital Storyteller?

A digital storyteller can be anyone who is willing to display and share their life experiences, ideas, opinions, stories, or feelings through the use of story and digital media tools. Digital storytellers can improve themselves by contining to write and develop their stories through technical assistance from facilitators, digital support and of course their creaitivty! Anyone can be a digital storyteller with their technical knowledge, inspiration to write a story and innovation & creativiness.

📚 How to use Digital Storytelling in your Classroom?

It can be hard to see yourself using digital storytelling in your classroom or in any educational institution as most of us are used to using ''books'' in the classroom, but don't worry, I did my research for you and came with a few useful tips and advices about applying digital storytelling to your environment easily!

Watch and Learn & See technology as a helpful tool for storytelling ⇰ Movies are the best options for starting to use digital storytelling in your classroom. You can ask your students to do some research & examine the most popular and well-known movies so that you can work with the whole classroom, discuss and exhange the ideas & opinions about the movies in different categories by using different storytelling apps and techniques! Maybe you can think that teaching and giving lessons about technology should be main focus of the curriculum but if you have your mobile device, computer or camera it's enough to apply! By using simple technological devices, you can learn some programs such as ''iMovie'' or ''Microsoft, try some basic editing and improve yourself as you continue to include more advanced programs to your practices.

Learn from your mistakes & See yourself as a producer ⇰ It's important to know that you are going to spend some time while trying to learn about digital storytelling, its apps, techniques and more. You can do some research on the Internet, look for some resources and get help from the by asking your questions or about your mistakes. While interacting with them, you can get inspired from their expriences and take some advices from them! Besides, you can look from your students' perspectives, understand their problems and help them as you learn from your own mistakes. You can consider yourself as a producer and get motivated from the feeling of producing and editing some programs. While learning about storytelling and technology, it's crucial to work with your students and show the best version of yourself even though you don't have much knowledge about the technology as your students always look up to you and follow your leadership!

Be Collaborative with your Students & Praise them for their works & success ⇰ Let your students help you as some of your students may have more knowledge or learn faster than everyone. By working with your students collaboratively you can absorve technology quickly and learn more about digital storytelling. Do not forget to make some groups in your classroom as some knwoledgeable students may be very helpful for their peers and they can work on & improve their weaker sides. It's a great opportunity to create an environmen where students explore their hidden talents and consider themselves as writers, editors, producers and technicans. Do not forget to take into consideration every effort that your students've made for your classroom and praise their works. Your students will be get encouraged to do more work and spend more time on technology & digital storytelling when you celebrate their work and success.

📚 Some Examples of Digital Storytelling Websites & Apps

Sock Puppets: This app lets you create your own lip-synched videos and share them on your social media sites such as Facebook & YouTube. You can add puppets, scenery, creative imaginings and backgrounds and start to use Sock Puppets by creating. ▪️ Toontastic: Toontastic is a digital storytelling and learning tool that makes kids draw, animate, and share their own cartoons easily with people all around the world. Other apps: Adobe Slate ▪️ Puppet Pals ▪️ ShowMe Interactive Whiteboard ▪️ WeVideo ▪️ 30hands Starter

Some Digital storytelling websites: ACMI Generator ▫️ Bubblr ▫️ Capzles▫️ Comic Master ▫️ MakeBeliefsComix ▫️ PicLits ▫️ Slidestory ▫️ Smilebox ▫️ Storybird ▫️ ZooBurst ▫️ MapSkip

📚 What is Storybird? + My Own Experience

Storybird is a web-based storytelling tool that is used to create stories and creative writing pieces with pictures. The users can share their own stories, get inspired from other artists and be an inspiration on the Storybird space. Users are also able to use & benefit from various stories, artworks as a tool for their storytelling thanks to the collaborative feature of Storybird.

Inspiration from Storybird: The inspiration on Storybird comes from the amazing artworks, pictures, provided on the website by brilliant artists. Storybird users selects a picture, creates different ideas from it and finally a story borns from the picture. The images help users to write their story as it provides them a base for plot, characters, story setting & details and more. The only thing you have to just selecting an artwork which illustrates your digital story and starting to write the digital story by using their inspiration, the artworks! Storybird is a really great tool to promote your creativity and do amazing collaborations with other artists like you!

When I created my own account, I encountered with the 'Basic Challenges' section where Storybird helps you to become better writer by providing writing prompts, lessons, video tutorials, and quizzes for you, so I was amazed by these tutorials as they are very helpful for writing skills! I also liked how Storybird offered different options, from poetry to picture book, for me to write my own story with amazing artworks!

📚 My Own Story: Making Friends with Nature

The link for my story: https://storybird.com/picture-book/making-friends-with-nature--0

For detailed information, do not forget to check the official youtube channel of Storybird!

Thank you for reading my blog! Hope you enjoyed my blog about Digital Storytelling & Storybird and my story about Mother Nature! See you next blog, let's keep reading and writing our own fantastic stories! :)