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= **What is digital storytelling?** = = = "Digital Storytelling" is an emerging term, one that arises from a [|grassroots] movement that uses new digital tools to help ordinary people tell their own 'true stories' in a compelling and emotionally engaging form. These stories usually take the form of a relatively short story (less than 8 minutes) and can involve interactivity. The term can also be a broader journalistic reference to the variety of emergent new forms of digital narratives (web-based stories, [|interactive] stories, hypertexts, and narrative [|computer] games). As an emerging area of creative work, the definition of digital storytelling is still the subject of much debate." --[|wikipedia definition] = About this wiki = Here you will find snapshots of tools to use in the classroom for students to tell their stories using 21st Century Learning skills. The tools listed are typically FREE of cost, but some have pricing plans to give you a more robust working environment and enhanced tools. If you have a great online tool, please add it to the ALL TOOLS LIST!

= Authors: = [|Tom McGee]

[|Trace Blazosky]