Includes bibliographical references (p. 218-220) and index.

Confessions of a Digital Storytelling Teacher: Twenty Revelations About Digital Storytelling in Education -- Defining and Discussing Digital Storytelling: Helping Teachers See, Think, and Talk About Digital Storytelling -- Digital Storytelling as an Educational Tool: Standards, Planning, and Literacy -- Assessing Digital Stories: The Opportunities and Challenges of New Media Evaluation -- Thinking About Story: The Story Core, Story Mapping, Story Types -- Applying Story Maps: Seeing the Core, Mapping the Story --Story Planning Considerations: Tips, Techniques, Lessons Learned -- Transformation Formations: How We, and the Characters in Our Stories, Change -- More Story Maps: From Aristotle to Present Day -- Other Kinds of Stories: Different Story Forms and Story Perspectives -- Going Digital -- The Media Production Process, Phase I: Developing the Story -- The Media Production Process, Phases II-V: From Preproduction to Performance -- The Digital Storytelling Toolbox: The Tools Teachers and Students Need to Tell Digital Stories -- Media Grammar for Teachers: Assessing Media Expression -- Copyright and Fair Use in Education: Living in the Gray Zone, Doing the Right Thing, and Protecting Yourself.