VALUE IN DITIAL STORIES

Digital stories without a doubt hold value in academia, and outside it. Academically speaking, it is important to have a variety of mediums in which students can learn. Simple lecture and a wordy presentation of information is efficient, but not always entertaining for the students making it harder to learn from. When there are forms of technology at our fingertips that also allow us to be quietly entertained paying attention is difficult, but if the material is presented through something such as a digital story it is much easier to focus and retain information from the modern, attention-grabbing video. Outside of academia, digital stories hold just as much value. People can create or capture memories and stories from the past in a way that describes them better than a simple photograph or verbal story based on memory.