Digital Stories

Having students compsoing their own digital story will definately get the creative juices flowing.  Free cloud based software is available for the choosing.  We used Photostory 3 for Windows to do an class project.
I agree digital storytelling can be used to enhance students' skills in critical thinking, expository writing and media literacy (Zuger, 2009). It wouldn't suprise me if our future resumes will presented in a digital manner. Any exposure to technology we can bring to our students is going to be important to their future. 
Bryan Alexander inviews Paul Ford, a fellow journalist and interestingly, Ford arrives at this point by reaching back to the Whole Earth Catalog and its Freudian notion of humans as prosthetic gods.

 We’ve reached a point where anyone with an SMS card or access to an Internet café can potentially be heard by billions of people. What could be more godlike… than that?(Alexander, 2011)

Imagine digital stories being shared around the world....maybe this would bring about World Peace.



References:

Zuger, S. (2009, March 09). Digital storytelling goes hollywood. Retrieved from http://www.techlearning.com/article/digital-storytelling-goes-hollywood/45840

Alexander, B. (2011, July 30). Storytelling the news with new media. Retrieved from http://newdigitalstorytelling.net/2011/07/30/storytelling-the-news-with-new-media/