Digital Storytelling & Ebooks

I have briefly heard of ebooks and digital storytelling, and was very interested in talking with my mentor about these resources. However, she did not offer a great deal of knowledge on these topics. I turned to my Library 2.0 and Beyond text, where I found most of my information.

Digital storytelling is a story told using moving digital images, digital voiceover narrative, and digital music. Digital storytelling formats are short and precise. Digital storytelling is created for people to tell stories about their lives using drama and emotional content. It must include facts established form context and include emotion and heartfelt meaning.

Library 2.0 and Beyond lists the seven elements of digital storytelling:
1. Point (of view)
2. Dramatic question
3. Emotional content
4. The gift of your voice
5. The power of the soundtrack
6. Economy
7. Pacing

Ebooks are online resources, that ocus on areas where print materials are lacking. Ebooks come in a variety of commercial contents, such as Mobipocket, eReader, the Palm eBook Store, and ecookbooks. Reference books are available in ebooks for law, medicine, and humanities. Gutenberg is one of the largest and oldest online sources of ebooks. It provides 19,000 public domain works.

I look forward to talking to my schools literature/Language Arts department about the benefits of using Digital Storytelling and Ebooks.