{"id":7895,"date":"2010-08-09T10:39:41","date_gmt":"2010-08-09T14:39:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/?p=7895"},"modified":"2010-08-09T10:40:06","modified_gmt":"2010-08-09T14:40:06","slug":"digital-storytelling-brings-a-human-connection-to-online-education","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/2010\/08\/09\/digital-storytelling-brings-a-human-connection-to-online-education\/","title":{"rendered":"Digital storytelling brings a human connection to online education"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.facultyfocus.com\/articles\/instructional-design\/digital-storytelling-brings-a-human-connection-to-online-education\/\" target=\"_blank\">Digital storytelling brings a human connection to online education<\/a><\/strong> &#8212; from Faculty Focus by Deborah A. Raines<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">Once upon a time people told stories to share experiences and to  teach.  With the growing popularity of distance learning modalities  educators have been searching for ways to enhance social presence and reflective thinking in the online learning  experience.  The use of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.facultyfocus.com\/tag\/digital-storytelling\/\" target=\"_blank\">digital  storytelling<\/a> might be a strategy to bring human thought and emotion  into online education.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">Since pre-historic times, storytelling has been a form of education  and social connection.  Storytelling allows persons to project their  personal characteristics and to present themselves as real people to  other participants.  The process of creating a story is a mental process  which challenges the learner to use critical thinking processes to  examine information, question its validity and draw conclusions.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">Digital storytelling is the art of telling stories with digital  multimedia to share a reflective narrative.  Through effective use of  perspective, drama, emotion, context and sound, digital storytelling  helps people to connect, explore and understand. Digital storytelling  can provide a creative ingredient to make the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.facultyfocus.com\/tag\/online-learning\/\" target=\"_blank\">online learning<\/a> process engaging and can lead to deeper learning (Sharad, 2010).<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">Digital storytelling presents learners with a challenge to write,  understand and communicate in a collaborative, persuasive, accurate and  entertaining manner.  The steps in creating a digital story as a  teaching-learning activity are:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Digital storytelling brings a human connection to online education &#8212; from Faculty Focus by Deborah A. Raines Once upon a time people told stories to share experiences and to teach. 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