What is a digital story?

A digital story is telling a story using the technology. Everybody loves telling stories, now they can make their story look alive with digital story. A digital story would include images that sometimes appropriate to the story, music in the background, the narrative, and voice. A digital story usually is a 3 to 5 minute digital video clip. Story telling has been one the ancient way to express the love for art, with digital story people has great way to combine their voice, images, and music together and express the same love of art.
To create a digital story, someone needs in a 3 to 5 minutes long to combine a personal or someone’s else narrative, some photo images or clip arts if desired, and some chosen music for the background soundtrack. Someone needs also some technology skills in order to use the computer to create the story. Some teacher would require student to create digital story in order to enrich their knowledge in communication. The advantages of creating the digital story is that students most likely to retain what they have learned, because whenever you are doing the work you have more chance of understand it better.
Also, creating a digital story increases student’s creativity skills. Students have to be really creative in finding photos and arranging them in a way to go with the story. Student’s time management skills are increasing because the student has only about 3 to 5 minutes to tell the story and arrange everything to look good. Students also are practicing their reading and writing skills. The writing skills are increasing because students have to make to story enjoyable to the readers. If the writing message is not correctly written, the delivery of the message will not be complete even the photos in music are put correctly or in harmony. When somebody is telling a story, they use different kind of tone depends of the event, action within the story; it is the same as digital story. The arrangement, photos, music have to express the author’s emotion, mood.
Students are encouraged to improve their knowledge in technology. Most of the students have events like graduation, party, and much more that they tell people about. With digital story, students will not only increasing their technology, reading, and writing skills, but also they can reach more people in special way with the story.
In conclusion, the digital story in telling a story that in a personal perspective, it is sharing your emotion with a story that also touches other people’s hearts using digital or the technology. A digital story is brief, but telling people about a journey, a lesson, a poem, something funny or sad, with the combination of words, photos, music, and your artistic skills.