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"Digital Storytelling uses digital media to create media-rich stories to tell, to share, and to preserve. Digital stories derive their power through weaving images, music, narrative and voice together, thereby giving deep dimension and vivid color to characters, situations, and insights..." Digital Storytelling Association

Everyone has family and every family has stories.

Thanks to technology, records of births, marriages, deaths and other “official” events will be preserved for future generations to explore. But it’s the family’s stories; the dreams and realities, the successes and failures, the joys and sorrows, life’s milestones and everyday living that give definition and depth to our families.

Storytelling has been a human trait ever since we arose on two feet. We have left our stories on the walls of caves and the myths from Rome and ancient Greece are still alive today. Early art and culture were preserved by the Egyptians in huge pyramid tombs. Most modern religions are based on the morals and values of stories written over the millennia. Yet new stories are being created everyday.

Digital storytelling is the process of using computer technology to collect, author and publish stories. As this technology becomes more accessible to our households we have the opportunity to choose the story we want to tell. We get to write the script and put it together using photographs, captions, simple animation, video, voice-overs and music.

Stories can be shared with all in family by publishing in varied media.

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