Through digital story telling, your students have the opportunity to grow as individuals and prepare for leadership exchange program interviews.
Enhances English Language Skills
• Digital storytelling provides a platform for your students to practice speaking and understanding in English through creating and sharing their stories in English.
• By working on their digital stories, your students can improve their language proficiency, vocabulary, and grammar.
Develops Communication and Critical Thinking
• Digital storytelling encourages your students to think critically as they plan, organize, and present their stories.
• Your students learn how to effectively communicate their ideas, thoughts, and emotions in English.
Offers Fun and Age Appropriate Activities
• Digital storytelling offers fun and age-appropriate activity for your students to improve their English skills.
• In digital storytelling, your students express themselves, and explore their imagination in an enjoyable way.
Provides Community Engagement
• In digital stories, your students share perspectives about their volunteer projects.
• Your students can publish digital stories on their service projects that make a difference in their communities, contributing to positive change.
Offers Comprehensive Learning
• Digital storytelling aligns with Access program’s goals of teaching English language skills, introducing American culture and values, and fostering computer literacy.
• Your students learn how to use computers, the internet, and a video-editing program to create their own digital stories.
Experience digital storytelling for yourself.
In a STORYCORD teacher workshop, you become the storyteller first—experiencing the same creative process you can bring back to your Access students.
STORYCORD is an independent educational initiative and is not affiliated with or endorsed by the U.S. Department of State.