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[|**Dr. Glen Bull’s article “Storytelling in the Web 2.0 Era”**] in [|**the February 2008 issue**] of ISTE’s Learning and Leading with Technology Magazine (unfortunately not published on the open web, it requires a login to the Members Only Area to view it) includes the following observations about why digital storytelling tools (specifically those utilized by Alan Levine in his amazing project, **50 Tools to Tell a Digital Story**) can be used in ways well-supported by educational research. Dr. Bull writes:

"Employing these new capabilities in ways that enhance learning will require thoughtful integration. Pavio’s dual coding theory suggests that verbal and visual systems coexist in the mind and that employing both visual and verbal information may facilitate learning. The National Reading Panel has cited instructional imaging techniques as among the more promising ways of fostering comprehension development. Emerging Web 2.0 tools will provide new opportunities to do this."

__h__[|ttp://digitalstorytelling.coe.uh.edu/pdfs/Dogan-DS-Research-2008.pdf] The teachers that used digital storytelling in the classroom with their students reported and all agreed that they observed increases in certain skills such as technical skills, presentation skills, research skills, organizational skills, and writing skills with their students."