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Digital storytelling Digital Storytelling
Like paintings, personal narrative stories that mix images, graphics, sound, and music with the author's own storytelling voice will exist over time and be enjoyed long past their creation. The ideas and content for the Digital Storytelling section of the Adobe Digital Kids Club have been compiled and written by Bernajean Porter, whose book, DigiTales: The Art of Telling Digital Stories, includes detailed step-by-step processes for bringing this emerging oral storytelling style into today's classrooms.

Learn how software like Adobe® Photoshop® Elements and Adobe Premiere® Elements can become effective digital storytelling tools in your classroom. Unleash your students' imagination as they create unique, personal 3- to 5-minute movies .

Topics
What's all the buzz about digital storytelling? What's all the buzz about digital storytelling?
Get the inside scoop on this special genre that uses an author’s own voice as the centerpiece of content while artistically dancing multisensory elements into personal understandings about self, family, ideas, and experiences.
Digital storytelling in the classroom Digital storytelling in the classroom
Digital storytelling is not just for language arts! Learn how the Take Six: Elements of a Good Story can easily be incorporated into non-fictional storytelling that shares what students know and deeply understand about topics.
Getting started: Seven process steps for digital storytelling Getting started: Seven process steps for digital storytelling
The skills, resources, and technology tools needed vary with each phase, but following these process steps will help your students translate their imagination and talents into digital stories.
Take Six: Essential elements for coaching good storytelling Take Six: Essential elements for coaching good storytelling
Pull up your writer/director’s chair to understand how to put power in your digital storytelling by incorporating six essential elements.
Beyond words: The craftsmanship of communication Beyond words: The craftsmanship of communication
Read how students can express ideas with multiple communication technologies, not just the written word.
Storying around for 21st century skills Storying around for 21st century skills
Make a connection with digital storytelling and the national standards for curriculum, technology, and 21st century skills.

Highlights
Digital storytelling tutorial Digital storytelling tutorial
Empower students to express themselves through digital-imaging projects created with Adobe® Photoshop® Elements software and digital-video projects created with Adobe Premiere® Elements software.
Bernajean Porter Meet the author
Read a biography of Bernajean Porter, recognized by educators worldwide for helping teachers and students find and create their own stories.
Read about the book About the book
DigiTales: The Art of Telling Digital Stories is being used in many professional development programs and classrooms to blend technology and storytelling into a new dynamic communication form.
Classroom tips Classroom tips
Get helpful, expert advice about keeping exciting digital storytelling projects on track in your classroom. These classroom tips cover essential elements of quality, time, and group management.
Technical tips Technical tips
Help students mix professionalism with creativity — without losing any of the excitement of digital storytelling.
Student gallery Coming soon: Student gallery
Check out amazing work produced in classrooms where digital storytelling engages students in learning and encourages creative exploration.