One of the things that has struck me as i trawl through the research for Jess’s and my immersion task and discussion paper is that digital storytelling has been around in various forms for quiet a while now. Sites such as ‘telling their stories’ remind me of when i visited Yod Vashim, the Holocaust museum outside Jerusalem. There was one exhibit in-particular that struck me and i have never forgotten in the nine years since i have seen it. In a quiet room their was a screen, and projected on it was people telling their stories, Jews from the camps, American liberators, old women who had their childhood destroyed. The simple images and powerful words brought me to tears. 

Connecting this site and that exhibit, it  shows how the internet has broadened the scope for such a powerful tool such as digital storytelling. It also reminds me that storytelling is not new, but we find new ways to reach an audience. A new way to share information and teach the youth about our collective past.

The possibilities of this sort of tool in the history and english classroom is immense and exciting.