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A List of The Best Free Digital Storytelling Tools for Teachers.

Here some of the pluses of digital storytelling in education :

- It develops creativity and critical thinking Students who are shy or afraid to talk in class get a chance to speak out their minds 

- It empowers students voice to deliver rich, deep message that is capable of conveying a powerful message. 

- It helps students explore  the meaning of their own experience, give value to it, and communicate that experience with others.

- It promotes the notions of life long learning and independent learning 

- It develops students communicative skills It is a reflective process that helps students reflect upon their learning and find deep connections with the subject matter of a course or with an out-of-class experience. 

- It fosters students sense of individuality It also gives students an opportunity to experiment with self-representation and establish their identityStudents creating digital stories develop proficiency with multimedia applications

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