A must-read for incorporating digital literacy into your classroom!

As the saying goes, "If you want someone to remember something, tell them a story." But if you really want your students to remember what they learn, then let them create their own digital stories.

Digital storytelling empowers your students to be confident communicators and creators of media as they gain essential 21st-century literacy skills and reach deeper understandings in all areas of the curriculum. Aligned with refreshed ISTE and Common Core standards, this new edition of Digital Storytelling in the Classroom includes:

• Practical techniques for combining storytelling with your curriculum content
• Tips for exploring effective storytelling principles through emerging digital media as well as via traditional literacy skills in reading, writing, speaking, and art
• Information on relevant copyright and fair use laws
• Visual aids and video clips that illustrate best practices in multimedia composition

A world leader in digital storytelling and a lifelong digital humanist, author Jason Ohler opens the door to a new world of creative teaching and learning for you and your students.



Praise for the first edition:
"Ohler illuminates the very heart of learning and digital technology: storytelling. His is the story of how the networked computer amplifies our human capacity to learn through tools of expression."
—Walter Bender, President
One Laptop per Child Foundation

"Essential for integrating learning, literacy, and new media in and out of the classroom. Jason Ohler is a world leader in digital storytelling, and a master teacher, and a global communicator."
—Bernard J. Luskin, Professor and Director of Media Programs
Fielding Graduate University

• Covers the foundations of storytelling and offers ways to combine curriculum content and storytelling
• Shows teachers how to blend multiple literacies within the context of digital storytelling
• Shows how to plan for creating and executing digital stories
• Links digital storytelling to improving traditional, digital, and media literacy
• Includes "story maps" throughout as well as helpful hints and resources that can be used or adapted
• Includes an e-book version compatible with devices such as the iPad, the Kindle, and the Nook; also includes a companion website containing video clips of media production techniques
• Provides coverage of the connection between Digital Storytelling and social media, including performance and social media, with connection to the 5Cs (21^st century skills).
• Addresses use of technology and new media, including smart phones, the iPad, and other tablets, and green screening