Training and Support for Educational Uses of Digital Storytelling
From the 132 participants who indicated that they had experience with digital storytelling, 38 percent
indicated that they need additional training in digital storytelling. Twenty-three percent of them stated that they
need additional computer hardware and software in order to use digital storytelling in the classroom. In addition,
28 percent of the participants require additional technical support. On the contrary, 45 percent of the participants
said that they do not need any extra training and support because they already have adequate training and support
(see the DS website for Appendix Table 12)
Sixteen participants answered the open-ended question related to what they need in order to use digital
storytelling in their classrooms. Seven respondents wrote that they need more training, technical, hardware and
software, although they have already enough support to use DS for educational purposes. They also included the
following statements about support for DS: “keep learning new things all the time,” “I would always be happy to
improve both own skills and technical support,” “more would be better.” One of the participants who is a
coordinator of education in a museum stated that teachers need more training and support and stated that “I need
more help from the teachers and they need more training and support.”