Many “whole life” projects underway involve digital storytelling. This is using photo, text, music and voice to produce a story, usually about 2-3 minutes long and shared/uploaded onto computers, websites, blogs and so on. Recent research in literacy argues that adults develop many valuable “new literacies” , “deep literacy” and traditional print literacy skills as they create digital stories. These include the creative decision-making involved in matching text with images and music, pacing, designing text/narrative for an authentic audience, attention to voice and emotional content, editing, you name it! Because digital stories value many kinds of learning styles and modes
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