Digital Storytelling

While browsing for e-learning examples today, I came across the Center for Digital Storytelling. They’re a non-profit organization that “assists youth and adults around the world in using digital media tools to craft and record meaningful stories from their lives and share these stories in ways that enable learning, build community, and inspire justice.” There are some incredibly powerful stories on their site, such as the one by Zahid Al Amin, a Bangladeshi journalist whose efforts to publicize the story of woman killed in an acid attack had extreme consequences in his own life. Others are less intense, such as Amy Peterson’s meditation on her fifth birthday in august, 1977.

It’s inspiring to see how this tool is used for education, justice, and for individual creative expression.