Stories are now available on the Internet. You can read online books made available by Google or Amazon, or if you're feeling adventurous, you can create your own digital story. To create a digital story, you can combine voice, sounds, pictures, movies, and written words. You don't have to have all of these elements, but there are several websites that can help you along your way.
The Center for Digital Storytelling hosts open workshops for teachers to come and create a digital story. These workshops are three days long, and can be a real help to teachers who are lacking in technology backgrounds. The Educational Uses of Digital Storytelling published by the University of Houston gives a list of the things necessary to create a digital story. There are five essential steps; Choose a topic/write a script, collect resources, select content/develop a storyboard, import/record/finalize, and demonstrate/evaluate/replicate. Each one of these steps is broken down into easier steps for those who need guiding. They even have a link for downloadable tools for those who are ambitious enough to start now.
Digital stories are a great way to cross the barrier between learning at home and school, all while integrating technology and creativity into the classroom.
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