Description of digital storytelling

What is a “digital storytelling”? 

With there being many different ways of ways to define/explain what this is I will give you the laymen version.  “Digital storytelling” is taking any information on any computer (digital) and adding a story line to it.   As the University of Houston states on their website “storytelling is the practice of using computer-based tools to tell stories.”  Simple, right. Well, from this point everything becomes interesting.  The ‘any information on any computer’ refers to all information that is found on, through, or can be put on a computer.  The story line refers to you the creator(s) adding information in the form of sound recordings (voice or otherwise) to the information selected.

So, “combine narrative with digital content.”

How does it all work?

To create a digital story on needs to select material (digital) from a computer.  Arrange the material in an order they feel tells a story and then add recordings to the material to tell the story.

 

Or “created by combining recorded voice, still and moving images, and music or other sounds”

(Center for Digital Story Telling)

The creator takes a story recording and finds material to match the recorded input.