In week 7, we learned about Digital Storytelling. This is the use of media and new computer-based tools to tell stories. It usually contains a combination of pictures, text, video, audio and music. This is used highly in education, by either recounting events in history or teaching new concepts. Outside of just educational stories it can be narratives, for workshops or participatory production. They are innumerable ways and resources to present digital storytelling. It can be slideshows, travels shown on Google Earth, timelines, comic strips, collages, videos and many more.
With an ever-changing environment and economy, it is imperative in the accounting world to constantly learn new rules, processes and events. Digital storytelling is one way to present this information to employees of firms in a more interesting way. Continuing education is a requirement for the CPA license and this could be one way they could incorporate facts in an entertaining way. It is important to incorporate the different types of media like video, audio and facts, and this is one successful way to encompass these. When these accounting firms recruit students, it is important to appeal to them and display different aspects of the firm. Using Digital Storytelling to describe the company, show locations they can travel to with Google earth, and video/picture footage of their activities could be very successful in presenting the firm.
The following link is a website provided by the University of Virginia for teachers and students to create “narratives” (digital stories) in one easy site. They provide materials and images to use, as well as a location to actually make it with ease.
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