{"id":4,"date":"2025-10-14T18:11:47","date_gmt":"2025-10-14T18:11:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/commons.princeton.edu\/digital-storytelling\/?page_id=4"},"modified":"2026-01-13T12:27:03","modified_gmt":"2026-01-13T17:27:03","slug":"home","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/commons.princeton.edu\/digital-storytelling\/","title":{"rendered":"Home"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>\u201cStories are what we do as humans to make sense of the world\u201d<br \/>\n(Lambert, 2013)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><span class=\"dropcap\">D<\/span>igital Storytelling (DST) is an <em>integrated<\/em> project in Spanish courses at Princeton University. Students from different cultural backgrounds are given the opportunity to find their voice and tell their stories.<\/p>\n<p>DST is used to capture students\u2019 emotions, develop visual literacies, and foster creative abilities. Implementing DST helps learners reflect on their use of words and images in Spanish. This language-in-use approach becomes a meaningful and powerful tool.<\/p>\n<h4>Goal<\/h4>\n<p><em>Finding your voice, conveying emotions, and constructing meanings through images and musical score.<\/em><\/p>\n<h3><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-272 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/commons.princeton.edu\/digital-storytelling\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/479\/2026\/01\/Yours_with_all_my_heart_-_her_own_story_as_told_by_the_beautiful_Italian_gazelle-hound_Fairy_1904_14566126759.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"473\" srcset=\"https:\/\/commons.princeton.edu\/digital-storytelling\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/479\/2026\/01\/Yours_with_all_my_heart_-_her_own_story_as_told_by_the_beautiful_Italian_gazelle-hound_Fairy_1904_14566126759.jpg 640w, https:\/\/commons.princeton.edu\/digital-storytelling\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/479\/2026\/01\/Yours_with_all_my_heart_-_her_own_story_as_told_by_the_beautiful_Italian_gazelle-hound_Fairy_1904_14566126759-300x222.jpg 300w, https:\/\/commons.princeton.edu\/digital-storytelling\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/479\/2026\/01\/Yours_with_all_my_heart_-_her_own_story_as_told_by_the_beautiful_Italian_gazelle-hound_Fairy_1904_14566126759-600x443.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/h3>\n<h3><\/h3>\n<h3><\/h3>\n<h3><\/h3>\n<h3><\/h3>\n<h3><\/h3>\n<h3><\/h3>\n<h4><\/h4>\n<h4><\/h4>\n<h4>Objectives<\/h4>\n<p>Students will be able to&#8230;.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Plan and craft their digital stories in Spanish that integrates oral narration, their own images, and music to share a meaningful experience to an audience.<\/li>\n<li>Use appropriate vocabulary, grammar, and register in Spanish to narrate events and convey emotions in a multimedia format.<\/li>\n<li>Revise and improve a digital story based on peer and instructor feedback (horizontal learning), enhancing linguistic accuracy and the significance of multimodal communication.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h4>Prompt<\/h4>\n<aside>Write about a past experience that was personally meaningful and that helped raise a social awareness. Write about a time when someone said something important to you. Take us to that moment. How did you feel? Focus on the details. Visualize the moment. Why was this important?<\/aside>\n<h4>Digital Storytelling<\/h4>\n<ul>\n<li>Origins in early 1990\u2019s<\/li>\n<li>Multimedia and multiliteracies project (words, images, music, sounds)<\/li>\n<li>The process of sharing and telling significant stories<br \/>\n<em>Digital storytelling: Capturing Lives, Creating Community<\/em><br \/>\nJoe Lambert (2013)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h4>Our Approach<\/h4>\n<ul>\n<li>Emphasis on giving students creative writing techniques to a model story<\/li>\n<li>Centered on personal emotion and significance, symbolism, and visual literacies<\/li>\n<li>Process is key in the digital storytelling project (four steps): writing drafts, storyboard, and final video<\/li>\n<li>Formative Assessment: evaluating different steps with rubrics that highlight key elements in stories<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h4>Why Storytelling?<\/h4>\n<ul>\n<li>Agency and Significance<\/li>\n<li>Learning as personalization, mediation, and crafting<\/li>\n<li>Creativity through self expression<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h4>Crafting Stories<\/h4>\n<ul>\n<li>L2 agency and the development of personal creativity\/self expression<\/li>\n<li>\u201cLa capacidad de expresar qui\u00e9n soy yo y en qui\u00e9n me quiero convertir\u201d<strong><br \/>\n<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Negueruela-Azarola &amp; Gavela-Ramos, 2024 &#8220;Mediaci\u00f3n y consciencia sociocultural.&#8221; In Negueruela-Azarola, E., P. Garc\u00eda, A. Escand\u00f3n (Eds.). <em>Teor\u00eda Sociocultural y espa\u00f1ol L2\/LE<\/em>. New York: Routledge.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right\"><a class=\"button\" href=\"https:\/\/commons.princeton.edu\/digital-storytelling\/project-overview\/\">Project Overview<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cStories are what we do as humans to make sense of the world\u201d (Lambert, 2013) Digital Storytelling (DST) is an integrated project in Spanish courses at Princeton University. 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