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INTRODUCTION
torytelling is the original form of teaching (Pedersen, 1995). It is a simple but powerful method to help students to make sense of the complex and unordered world of experience by crafting storylines (Bruner, 1990; Gils, 2005). Although storytelling is not new, the idea of digital storytelling is new (Meadows, 2003).
Within the last 10 years, digital cameras, editing software, authoring tools and electronic media outlets have encouraged teachers to utilize many more approaches and tools than ever before to help students to construct their own knowledge and ideas to present and share them more effectively (Standley, 2003). One of these powerful approaches to multimedia production is digital storytelling.
The Digital Storytelling Association (2002) describes Digital Storytelling as:
A modern expression of the ancient art of storytelling. Throughout history, storytelling has been used to share knowledge, wisdom, and values. Stories have taken many different forms. Stories have been adapted to each successive medium that has emerged, from the circle of the campfire to the silver screen, and now the computer screen.
Gils (2005) suggested many advantages of using digital storytelling in education: to provide more variation than traditional methods in current practice; to personalize learning experience; to make explanation or the practicing of certain topics more compelling; to create real Ufe situations in an...