Once upon a time stories came alive

Digital storytelling is a great multisensory activity that combines images, music and voice to stories. The author is forced to be quiet creative as they incorporate all these elements and give the characters and events depth and vivid color. This is a valuable experience for the author, but I think the reader does not use his/her imagination as much as reading text from a story to paint the picture of the characters and events. The drawback to digital storytelling is it is time consuming and there can be technology limitations such as a teacher's knowledge of the equipment and further technological difficulties such as enough space to save the digital stories. I do like that children can share their stories with the community and therefore give their writing more purpose. Also students can hear stories directly from people who have experienced events in history and can tell a more vivid emotional depiction.