Developing students’ creativity through digital storytelling

Abstract

Digital storytelling is a complex teaching-learning strategy that combines digital multimedia usage with narrative forms of content management. The name covers a methodological process model, in which the students produce specific subject content by activating their prior knowledge and experiences, by searching resources and by multiple creations. During the process, students construct their own 2-5-minute videos, with their own voice, by reorganizing existing images, music, texts, and also by creating new ones. The process is accompanied by a constructive discourse with the facilitator teacher and the students, and allows the teacher to support the cooperative work of students with diverse learning forms, methods, and online and offline learning environments. The aim of the study is on the one hand to give a review of the literature on the relationship between digital storytelling and creativity, and on the other hand to summarize the results of a qualitative study. We analysed the case studies of teachers (n=14) on the creativity who were facilitated a digital storytelling process in their school. The aim of the study is also to present the general views of the teachers about the development of students’ creativity through digital storytelling. At the end of the study, we examine how creativity was appeared as an aspect of evaluating on digital stories.