Digital Storytelling for CLIL

Storytelling is innate in the human species and the oral tradition of telling storieshas served as the basis for education for centuries. Digital stories stem fromthis model and move a step forward, incorporating rich, dynamic media. In fact, adigital story typically begins with a script. Then you have to assemble rich media tosupport the ideas and emotions in that script, including music, video, audio effectsso that the final product is a short movie, usually about two to four minutes long. Itcan be simple with basic functions, but also sophisticated and interactive and can haveinstructional, persuasive, historical or reflective purposes.Working with digital storytelling at school can be very effective and productivein terms of motivation and learning outcomes. As Gino Roncaglia states in a recentinterview, «providing the students with the ability to produce, select, manage, evaluateand disseminate complex digital information should be among our fundamentalteaching objectives»