Where is the research? What evidence do we have about the effectiveness of digital storytelling as a learning strategy?
The research is just being conducted. Caleb Paull completed a doctoral dissertation in 2002 entitled, Self-Perceptions and Social Connections: Empowerment through Digital Storytelling in Adult Education (University of California, Berkeley). His findings “focus on the ways in which creating digital stories seem to help create a sense of personal and social agency and empowerment in the students, a space for reevaluation and moving forward.” Teacher Tom Techszewski has begun a Masters Thesis Project on Digital Storytelling. His blogs document his research process.
