Assess The Importance Of Digital Storytelling

Writing is a powerful tool for communication and connection. As an extension and expression of the mind, writing is as much about the mental processes of the author as it is about the final marks laid to paper. As we write, we hold in mind our own thoughts on the work, anticipate the reader’s thoughts, and think both in concrete and abstract ways in order to accomplish the task at hand. Whether an academic research paper, a novel, or text message to friends, writing seeks to engage, persuade, or impress concepts upon an audience. Like language and other art forms in general, the practice of writing is ever-evolving and is subject to cultural and contextual influence, expectations, and conventions. Each writer holds a theory

The article “The Writing Revolution” by Peg Tyre is a piece which aims to address the problems in school systems often associated with the way in which writing is taught to students. Tyre’s article conveys the different arguments presented in the course of teaching writing to students, which have been shown to be on opposite sides of the creative and analytical spectrum. These different perspectives of how to build the foundation of writing for the children of America as well as other countries are backed similarly on both sides, though the debate still continues. “The Writing Revolution” instead of focusing on all aspects of writing, highlights the effectiveness of analytical fundamentals over that of creative writing in helping to

My relationship with writing could have culminated into three words; fear, quality, and of course no relationship is complete without excitement. Like any new relationship, emotions can determine the success or demise of the relationship. These emotions all work to the betterment of the writer and the writing relationship, each emotion feeding ever so slightly off one another. Exploring these writing relations reveal the truth where my writing relationship is concerned.

In my English 1010 class, I have learned to do a number of things through writing essays. I have written a Literacy Narrative, a Discourse Community Analysis, and a Writing Research essay. Firstly, I have learned to identify how an author’s purpose, audience, genre, and context determine effective writing. The purpose of the literacy narrative was to help me understand myself better as a writer (Jones 1). My teacher was the intended audience of the narrative. The genre of the narrative was non-fiction by cause of it being about my experience as a writer. The context of writing made my writing more interesting and more effective. Knowing those elements helps you to compose writing that is more effective due to you needing to know what you need to write about and who is receiving your writing. I displayed these skills by going into detail about my experiences with reading and writing through my life. As shown in the following sentence from my literacy narrative I shared how fun and exciting it was when my second-grade class received the opportunity to write a book, A Book of Future Astronauts, “Everyone in the class was truly excited to be writing our own book,” (Writing is Good).

Stories come in many forms, such as drawings, paintings, photos, videos, film/movies, etc. All of these forms can be detailed even though some don’t include any words being spoken. Storytelling has captured the human imagination for thousands of years, because before people started writing, story telling was the only way to pass on information. According to http://school.eb.com/levels/middle/article/277912 “Anything a culture wanted to preserve—its beliefs, its history, and its traditions—had to be told out loud.” Every story orally told changes over time because when you you listen to a story that is being told verbally you can not remember the entire story word by word forever, you will forget some words and change the story a little bit

In this reflective essay, I will explore how I use social media to enhance my creative writing, which aspects of social media platform did I utilize the most in an effort to connect with a new audience and examine the nature of my relationship concerning my creative exploration and use of technology within the writing process.

The author is conveying we all have feelings and he is explaining his feelings through the digital narrative. In addition, he is talking about his life and emotions, and what is was like for him growing up. I feel like he is preaching and telling people they can be a better person, and not get into trouble. Be yourself with the effects of life do not let people or bullies bring you down. We are the person our parents want us to be they mold us into a better person that we can be. We are who we are and cannot change that. Emotions are a part of life, and we cannot always control our emotions. This digital narrative also tells about the author’s life and what he went through weather it was good or bad. If you work hard, it will show and help

Discovering the meaning, where does the meaning come from? Excerpt from Improving Your Storytelling, also reveals how the story can be described individually by the interpreted meaning. The meaning can be rewritten as the acronym ‘MIT,’ or the most important thing. The MIT can be represented through telling, and during retelling, it puts emphasis on certain areas and can represent a fake portraying of the story, I feel. However, there is no other way so let's move on. On the secondary chapter, it follows up with the first chapter. The substance of resolving and removing out the meaning, then highlighting the meaning is one major technique to be pulled away. This what most good storyteller does. The word highlighting is key. From Speak and

Antisocial is an act refer to people that unable to communicate with each other. This behavior happens because people are not confident with themselves or probably too shy to talk to others. Sometimes they blame themselves for their lack of skill to communicate to other people. It would be simplistic to say for people who are very confident with themselves. Be an antisocial person is not always an awful behavior. There is an example of an act of antisocial which for a good thing. Madonna, a celebrity, claimed herself as an antisocial person. She doesn’t do a lot of socializing in social media or go out to hang out with her friends. She prefers to stay at home and take care of her children. Antisocial is not always involving a celebrity or crucial person, but it also happens to us. Many of them said that the reason of antisocial behaviors is because technology.

Have you ever read a book or listened to a speech that made you want to make something greater of your life and impact the world for the better. Writers use language to inspire people to be greater than they are. They create stories to show that people can be amazing and awe-inspiring. They show people that they can make the world a better place.

According to Gustav Freitag, in literature, there is a specific way in which plot develops, and it is portrayed as a pyramid of five actions. In this pyramid, there is a basic conflict which is followed by multiple complications until the conflict reaches its breaking point, and then after the conflict is clear, the issue will then either resolve or not. This method has been used for years, however, there is a method of storytelling that does not follow this pyramid, and it is known as a digital story. Digital stories do not follow Gustav’s pyramid exactly, and often tend to leave information out of the story itself. Whereas in traditional stories detail is essential to the plot, and what keeps the reader going, this lack of information present in digital stories tends to leave the readers’ interest constantly peaked since it is unknown what will occur next.

In recent decades, various learning paradigms have been used to enhance teaching and learning practice. Digital Storytelling is an innovative pedagogical approach that has the potential to engage learners in student-centred learning, and enhance learning outcomes across the curriculum. The key motivation for incorporating educational technologies like digital storytelling into the curriculum is the desire to improve the engagement and learning of students. Digital Storytelling is an art form with a defined structure that delivers narrative intelligence and imagination using technology. Digital Storytelling is an exceptional instructional tool which helps in enhancing learners’ motivation, and helps teachers in building constructivist learning environments.

The activity structure that I am most familiar with is electronic publishing. I often utilize electronic publishing to engage students in writing because I have seen firsthand how blogging for an authentic audience builds increased interest in the task. As Roblyer (2016) describes, “Strategies in which students write for distance audiences help motivate them to write more and to do their best writing” (p. 222). Yet, as I read about culturally-responsive pedagogy in this week’s module, I began to see new possibilities and benefits to online projects, collaboration,

Successful storytelling can feature a myriad of techniques. Instead of spreading the focus onto a large field of topics, it would be more effective to focus on just a few. They could include writing authentically and theme in relation to the writing genre.

Academia has been slow to incorporate digital technology into the learning process, and English courses seem to lag behind most other subject areas. Even when trying, College professors are challenged because post-secondary students “separate into different stratifications… according to their previous academic, social, and professional experiences with computers – experiences that, in turn, are often dependent on age, class, race, and gender” (Bancroft, 2016, p. 47). These stratifications create Rainie’s definition of the digital divide: “the gap between those who access and use computers and the internet and those who do not” (Bancroft, 2016, p. 47). Many students can access the internet or computers, but there is an additional expectations in collegiate education. Writing centers regularly work with students who cannot confidently or successfully use technology for academic purposes, which becomes a primary barrier to their academic success. Writing centers need to actively attempt to reduce this divide through instruction, application, and adaptation to help struggling students.