Critique of University of Houston Digital Story Website

The digital storytelling website by the University Houston contains a wealth of information. The "About Digital Storytelling" page explains the background of digital storytelling, which began in the 1990s! This page describes digital storytelling as similar to traditional storytelling but may also include computer-based images, text, videos, and music.

When creating a digital story to use in education, there are 10 elements outlined on the website that are considered essential. These are: the overall purpose of the story,the narrator’s point of view, a dramatic question or questions, the choice of content, clarity of voice, pacing of the narrative, use of a meaningful audio soundtrack, quality of the images, video & other multimedia elements, economy of the story detail, and good grammar and language usage. Knowing these elements and keeping them in mind as you make a digital story are important.

The "educational uses" page gave great ideas for ways that teachers may incorporate digital stories to enhance lessons. It has ideas for students to create their own digital stories as well, which I think is a great idea.

Exploring this website gave me lots of great ideas to use in my own digital story!