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You can use this guide as a gateway to learning how to collect, curate, credit (or attribute) and share information ethically, create and edit videos, podcasts and images, and connect inclusively, respectfully and safely with your peers, lecturers, and your future profession online.

Digital storytelling at its core involves using computer-based tools (and increasingly also mobile devices) to tell stories.

It is described in various ways including digital documentaries, digital histories, computer-based narratives, media science communication, mobile storytelling, digital essays, interactive articles, and even more.

Creating digital stories can help:

• Develop a range of literacies — digital, oral and written. 
• Increase collaboration - you can work in pairs or groups and learn to plan a task cooperatively, allocate responsibilities, share in gathering resources and in presenting the story.
• Develop communications skills by learning to ask questions, express opinions, construct narratives and write for an audience.
• Develop a range of technical and computer skills such as file management, audio production, image manipulation, and internet use.
• Increase engagement with a topic by giving you ownership of the content and helping you share your ideas with peers (and sometimes beyond) in new ways.