Saturday, October 17, 2009

Content Blog 3: Digital Storytelling

Digital storytelling is quickly arising as popular tool both socially and in the business and educational world. Digital storytelling is fun and sometimes simpler way to make or illustrate stories or plots. There are a variety of applications that are available for our usage such as Animoto and Go Animate. Businesses can use digital storytelling in presentations, or even to make a new advertisement for their company. In schools, it can be used as a new way to present books, or to teach different elements of story telling, such as plot, theme, etc.

Unfortunately there is not much use for digital storytelling in psychology. Once again, having this knowledge and skills might come in handy for specific situations, but I don't feel like it's a great necessity to know for psychology. But, knowing about applications such as the above mentioned is cool to know for every day life, especially if you're in to photography or animation. Animoto makes it really easy to make professional-looking slideshows, and Go Animate allows anyone to easily create short animation clips.

Here's an example of the application Animoto.  It's a 30-second self-made project that tells a story of too many donuts.  Enjoy!

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