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In the article Digital Storytelling What’s Digital Storytelling?, Alfonso Varona writes “Digital Storytelling is the old need for human beings to tell a story but integrating the new tools of the 21st century” (Varona, 2009).
I have to say that I am totally enthusiastic about the use of digital story telling in the languages classroom, may be some recollection of my major in video and cinema during high school. But at that time it wasn’t digital and I remember cutting metres of films to edit sound or working with gigantic monsters to edit a movie. But what I also remember is the enjoyment of being able to use different skills and the power of telling stories.
I can’t wait to work with students and prepare a digital storytelling project. Students would be allowed to tell their own stories in the target language, telling all about what they like to do, their family, their pets, their hobbies or even to learn about the culture and produce something about the country. Digital story telling offers many opportunities to encourage students to master their own learning and also to motivate them for a new experience.
