What is a Digital Story

Human beings experience things through visuals. We wake up and open our eyes and we receive light, then we begin to see shapes and these images go straight into our brain. These visuals are process internally to later be expressed externally. A digital story is a collection of visuals anda audio dedicated to capture a moment to be an informative message. Teachers in classroom, use digital stories to tell events, history, biographies or be applied to any subject that they choose to express. It is a form of expanding the objective. Digital stories are to be received by the viewer after it is processed by the viewer’s mind. Using digital stories is a good way to expand forms of learning. Now these days, society has become more technologically advance and have taken further steps to apply to ways of receiving knowledge. Some people may say, that we no longer sit down and read a book, it has become more convenient to turn on a computer, dvd, tv, projector, iphone, etc.. Where we can search for anything we want to know about; maybe a digital story clip of Darwin’s seminar when he traveled to Africa. The author of the digital story may even choose to include to Darwin’s seminar, images of the elephants, zebras, hyenas, lions, and hippopotamus among the many other animals that Darwin talked about at an auditorium when he recorded it. Even further, the digital storytelling author may decide to select to add part of his own images, representing his own trip to Africa. Digital story can be manipulated in endless forms to display emotion, moment, place, ideas, experiences, etc. A digital story is much effective because it allows the viewers to form a physical bond to the story since it broadens the viewer’s knowledge, transmitted via images, voice, music, and visual effects. Digital stories should be implemented to all classrooms, because it will engage the student to learn and pushes the learner to express itself outwardly.