Week 7- Digital Storytelling

Digital storytelling is a term to describe the new form of digital narratives used by ordinary people to tell a short story. In class, we covered such forms as iMovie, Powerpoint, and screen capture software. Digital media comes in analog and digital form. Analog information can be electric and is a physical representation of the original source. Digital form consists of information as a conversion of an original source into numeric data. Digital form comes in the form of digital photography, video, and storage.

I can use digital storytelling as a marketing tool for public relations. I feel the websites you have shown us in class can be used to be put on facebook to promote events. I think its creative and eye-catching and it draw an audience. It is a good way to show and not tell your information.

The following video from Youtube explains what digital storytelling is and the transition from the old form of story telling to the transition to digital storytelling. It explains how people can share stories at any time or any place and what forms it comes in. I chose it because it explains digital storytelling in very simple terms. It relates to our class discussion because it goes over the digital storytelling forms we went over in class.