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Digital storytelling has many forms and as many definitions. One of the more accomplished digital storytellers of our day, [|Daniel Meadows] defines digital stories as “short, personal multimedia tales told from the heart.”

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The beauty of this digital expression, he maintains, is that stories can be created by people everywhere, on any subject, and shared electronically all over the world. Meadows describes digital stories as “multimedia sonnets from the people” in which “photographs discover the talkies, and the stories told assemble as pieces of a jigsaw puzzle, a gaggle of invisible histories which, when viewed together, tell the bigger story of our time, the story that defines who we are.”

Bernajean Porter (Digitales) shares with us that digital storytelling “takes the ancient art of oral storytelling and engages a palette of technical tools to weave personal tales using images, graphics, music and sound mixed together with the author's own story voice. Digital storytelling is an emerging art form of personal, heartful expression that enables individuals and communities to reclaim their personal cultures while exploring their artistic creativity. While the heart and power of the digital story is shaping a personal digital story about self, family, ideas, or experiences, the technology tools also invite writers and artists to think and invent new types of communication outside the realm of traditional linear narratives.”

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