For my research, I typed "digital storytelling" into my yahoo search engine, and clicked the first site at the top of the page. It was a link to the University of Houston that completely explained the idea of digital storytelling. Not only that, but it had a variety of other places you could navigate to within the website that can help put your story together, such as movie and sound editing programs, and how to get started. I think I am going to find this helpful for the project at the end.
On the home page to the site I looked at, there was a short video clip about digital storytelling. In it was a series of video clips that were just pieces of American history, from Neil Armstrong stepping on the moon to the space shuttle blowing up in '86. It also showed a short clip of a larger story that a man had put together about his dad being a pilot in WW 2. Just these brief clips were enough to touch me, as I remembered the events in my life, big and small, that affected me greatly.
Digital storytelling is not necessarily simple. As with anything involving the creative process, it takes time and energy for a quality completed project. I just hope that I will be able to do the medium justice and create something that matters.
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