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What is the Digital Storytelling program?
Digital Storytelling helps youth confidently use technology in creative and responsible ways to explore, record and share their own stories.
Through five lessons, they gain hands-on experience with basic digital storytelling tools, including using a camera, operating a microphone and recording their own digital story to share with others.
Age group
Designed for grades 3-5
Youth outcomes
- Digital literacy: Understand how to use various digital tools and platforms effectively for learning, communication and creative expression.
- Responsible technology use: Practice safe, ethical and balanced technology habits that support personal wellbeing and positive online interactions.
- Storytelling with technology: Use digital media, such as photos, video and audio, to capture and share personal or community stories in meaningful ways.
- Critical thinking about technology: Explore how technology influences daily life, relationships and society, and make informed choices about how and when to use it.
Program information
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Partners implementing Digital Storytelling receive curriculum and may also receive support from 4-H staff who can help facilitate or co-facilitate programs with their teams.
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Digital Storytelling is a set of lessons for youth in grades 3-5 to explore multimedia technology and digital literacy.
Lessons
- Spot the Truth - Youth practice distinguishing fact from fiction in a fun, interactive way while discussing why some images can be misleading.
- The Three-Act Story Structure - Youth learn the three-part story framework — beginning, middle and end — as a foundation for creative expression, critical thinking and communication by planning their own story using the three-part structure.
- Camera Skills - Youth practice several key skills of taking quality photos or video, including: types of shots, framing your shot, rule of thirds and composition.
- Can You Hear Me Now? - Youth learn and practice techniques to record high-quality sound with a microphone.
- Share Your Story - Youth learn to share digital communications safely, practice making responsible choices with support from trusted adults, and develop critical audience skills by reviewing their peers’ work.
Digital Storytelling program lessons connect to Minnesota ELA and National standards.
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Reviewed in 2026