Digital Storytelling - Chris Kleit

Academic libraries are centers of education and they serve the students, faculty, and staff at their institutions through the implementation of digital storytelling programs. Digital storytelling can help students develop information literacy skills, which are vital for conducting research and information gathering from a variety of different sources. Students can develop visual literacy by creating and consuming digital stories because it encourages them to combine words with images, an important skill to have in the digital age. Digital storytelling can also help students to learn how to interpret images in a more abstract manner. For example, they can “see how images may be associated with concepts or emotions as opposed to having only a literal meaning” (Czarnecki, 2009).  Digital storytelling has also encouraged faculty to connect with both students and the scholarly community in new ways. For example, the personal voice “used in digital storytelling gives many a new and creative outlet for both talking about and thinking about their work in different ways” (Czarnecki, 2009). Click on the video below to watch the digital story titled "Universal Love" from Cowbird.com. Cowbird is a public library of human experience, with over 70,000 stories.

Works Cited:

Czarnecki, Kelly. “Chapter 4: Digital Storytelling in Different Library Settings.” Library

     Technology Reports, no. 7, 2009, p. 20. EBSCOhost,

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Cowbird.com. "Universal Love." YouTube. 25 May 2014. https://youtu.be/uLcSuVGPqzw.