Without completely outsourcing read-aloud time to automation, digital storytelling can be a great resource for engaging students and children in their connection with books. I personally use a website called Storyline Online for the elementary school that I work at. Members of the Screen Actors Guild Foundation are recorded reading selected stories. The illustrations from the book are then digitally enhanced, making it appear more like a short film. I usually do a read-aloud myself for two weeks, and then on the third week will pick a story to show on the projector. Digital Storytelling also offers the added benefit of captioned subtitles for those who like to read along while they listen, and in some cases an ASL interpretation that goes along with the reader. Here’s the link to Storyline Online. My favorite is “Arnie the Doughnut” read by Chris O’Dowd.
- “Arnie the Doughnut Read by Chris O'Dowd.” Storyline Online, SAG-AFTRA Foundation, www.storylineonline.net/books/arnie-the-doughnut/.
- Wawro, Larence. “Digital Storytelling.” Children & Libraries: The Journal of the Association for Library Service to Children, vol. 10, no. 1, Spring 2012, pp. 50–52. EBSCOhost, login.ezproxy.palomar.edu/login?url=http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=lxh&AN=75044358&site=ehost-live&scope=site.
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