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Expanding Literacy

Bringing Digital Storytelling into Your Classroom

How can we make meaningful, thoughtful digital storytelling a standard, best practice in schools? Expanding Literacy offers a specific project-based learning angle that can be meshed with any traditional and non-traditional curricular topic and is flexible enough to be applied to almost any content area.

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ISBN 978-0-325-13239-6 / 0-325-13239-9 / SKU E13239
2022 / 208pp / Paperback
Grade Level: 6th-12th

Topics: Collaboration, Technology, Writing

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Storytelling is humanity’s most universal form of communication. It is also one of the hardest to master effectively. But there are powerful opportunities for students to command this vital form through digital storytelling, which offers new and deeply relevant pathways to communicate effectively and purposefully using text, sound, music, and imagery––still and moving.

How can we make meaningful, thoughtful digital storytelling a standard, best practice in schools? Brett Pierce takes you on an journey into the deeply engaging world of digital story creation, providing a new outlook for why Digital Storytelling is critically important and how to integrate these processes seamlessly in the classroom.

Expanding Literacy offers a specific project-based learning angle that can be meshed with any traditional and non-traditional curricular topic and is flexible enough to be applied to almost any content area. It’s an approach to learning that focuses simultaneously on deep curricular learning and a range of digital and human skills, all within the expansive realm of digital multimodal literacy.

We all live in a visually-driven, technological world. In digital storytelling, the written word is an integral part of this visual world, but its role is re-cast in coordination with the creatively robust properties of sound, music, and imagery. The resulting narrative experience is impactful. Prepare students for most anything that the world may throw at them and teach them how to communicate effectively inside of the digital universe that envelopes them, now and in the future.

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“Occasionally a book comes along that creates a shift in thinking. This book...Expanding Literacy: Bringing Digital Storytelling into your Classroom by Brett Pierce...does just that. This professional book provides teachers with the tools and resources they need to integrate digital storytelling into their classrooms.”--The Reader - The Journal of the Arkansas Literacy Association, Volume 46, Issue 1 - Summer, 2023. Tammy Gilmore

“Brett Pierce pulls us into a thoughtful and enthusiastic conversation about the power and potential of digital storytelling in the classroom. …Throughout my reading of this book, I found myself asking: What if all students had the opportunity to participate in digital storytelling before coming to the college composition classroom? What if I could build on and reinforce the idea of exploring our possible selves through digital stories? What if digital storytelling was a required and accessible part of all of our educational stories?”--Arizona English Journal, Fall 2023. Tracy Iftikar

“Pierce’s sprinkle of personal and professional experiences along with statistical research, add depth and context to this modern interpretation of storytelling. As educators in varying stages of our careers, we are no strangers to storytelling. This book not only offers creative and practical suggestions for project-based learning but also helps define and navigate digital storytelling as an artform that can be implemented with all of its benefits for our use in the field.”-- The Montana English Journal, Vol. 44, Iss. 2023. Monica Jane Dierken, Georgina Molly Kepferle, and Madeline Wenberg

“The central strength of this book for teachers looking to take up this work is its accessibility through offering concrete activities and projects to try in the classroom. … Expanding Literacy: Bringing Digital Storytelling into Your Classroom assists teachers seeking concrete ideas for integrating digital literacy practices in their classrooms. It supports them in honoring students’ existing literacy expertise and creating more equitable classroom spaces that do not privilege singular types of knowledge.”--Kansas English, 2023, Volume 104, Number 1Kansas Association of Teachers of English. Jennifer S. Dail.

“As I began Expanding Literacy, I found myself asking what is digital storytelling? By page six, I had an answer: it “is the capacity to communicate using text, sound, music, and imagery – still and moving. Although my tech-based anxiety level began to rise, there was no need to panic. We educators are not required to be proficient in all these areas. …Ask your principal or librarian to purchase a copy now. Read it and experiment with several activities before the end of the school year. Make sure to invite the building administrators to the premiere – Digital Storytelling in Room 101.”--Middleweb, 1.12.23 - Anne Anderson