Stories bring people closer and create a sense of society/community. Stories connect us through the way they make us feel and the way we respond to them. By having a beginning, a middle and an ending, they give our lives structure, coherence and meaning, and can provide us with a sense of continuity, liveliness and duration.
Digital Storytelling (DTS) is the modern extension of the ancient art of storytelling, which nowadays is interwoven with digital images and video, as well as sound-music, visual effects and text-narration, which are forms of information that every personal computer, tablet or mobile phone can process.
The whole DST creation supports people in cultivating and applying the skills of modern literacy as well as their artistic and critical thinking skills. Digital stories, as well as traditional stories in that matter, can aim at educating, altering, convincing, soothing, documenting and evoking integration and reflection procedures.
The course aims to introduce students to the theory and practice of the DTS creative process, leading them to the creation of digital narrative with educational, but not exclusively, context.