DIGITAL STORYTELLING

Kirsty Mc Geoch is a Ph.D student who really concerns about digital learning. That is why today she came to our class to teach and share about digital storytelling. In the first lesson, she run her own video story which told about her life. We also saw another video by her students. Digital storytelling can be described as a story about something significant in our life, we had better to use our imaginative. We can narrative it by using our images, music, and voice to draw the expression and character deeply. Some others say that this is an interesting work to do. Besides are the testimonial about the digital storytelling that Kirsty taught.

What rules that we must care are:
- point of the story, tells about the focus of the story what is really about
- dramatic question, is something that people will find out from the story
- emotional content, will deliver the truthful people to be honest, such as to be sad or happy
- the gift of our voice, is the type of tone: whispering or making loud
- the power of soundtrack, to represent of emotional story
- economy, we must make it effective in word (word cutting) and time (time limit)
- pacing, is the plot of story that running fast or slow

In my opinion, digital storytelling is very beneficial activity that can be brought for our department. It is due to the fact that in there, neither do the lecturer or students make digital story telling in their learning way. On the other hand, it is important that will make the learning becomes so active where everybody can share together. We also have to creative and are used to using multimedia system.
Before finishing the lesson, we asked to write hand our experience into stort telling draft, and here my writing result:
“Two days ago, I have gotten a message from my husband, telling me that my grandfather passed away. For a moment, I was very sad, I cried, and my friends came to cheer me. Well, I just felt that it was very short time that I met him in last Ed Mubarak last October and he was looked fine at all. One thing that I was really sorry is that I have not seen him during his sick until the day he passed away.
In the night, there is a seminar about ’Phsycology of Death’ in Konjen Sydney. I have got the message from the seminar, that once somebody passed away is the same as ‘back home’. We always happy if we can back home, and the death as well. We just think that we back for God who create us, back for home.. back for good..
I cannot continue this story since I have had different opinion about the death itself. I just think that when we lost our family who passed away, it is something that must be ignored, a nightmare because we still have so many sin to deal with next in the different nature. Well I do not any idea about that. However, it made me feel better in that day, I pray for my grandfather hope that he can back home in peace.”

(Friday, 12 Dec 2008)

Lecturer by : Kirsty Mc Geogh