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=Welcome to the Workshop of Digital Storytelling in the World Language Classroom =

Digital storytelling is currently being used in more than 80 countries with a variety of contexts including language learning and teaching. It is powerful for language instruction. By integrating different media (text, image, audio, video), students can individually and collaboratively create stories online. In this hands-on workshop, you will explore a collection of digital stories that can be used to enhance students’ reading and listening skills and promote literacy. In addition, you will learn how to use the easily accessible and free digital storytelling tools (e.g., //VoiceThread//, //Storybird//) to develop students’ writing and speaking skills. Through discussions about the methodology, you will learn how to adapt digital storytelling to your own teaching contexts. Guidelines for activity design, rubrics and strategies for storytelling projects along with online resources will be provided.

Diagram of using digital stories created by Barrett (2006)

I hope you will share your ideas with us and enjoy this workshop.

Lina Lee Professor of Spanish University of New Hampshire