As stated by Jenkins & Lonsdale (2007), digital storytelling has been used in a language-teaching classroom involving encouragement and engagement of students, and establishing students’ social presence for on-line learning, participation and interaction. It is supported also by Carolyn Miller (2014), she said that in the educational area “digital storytelling” is used to mean the employment of still images and a recorded script, and possibly some video or animation, to tell personal stories or stories relating to an element in the education curriculum. Digital storytelling has been used at University of PGRI Adi Buana Surabaya for its fourth semester students and the research reported in the paper will further explore students’ perception on increasing their awareness and improvement in the language skills. Digital stories allow students to take a linear series of events and turn them into a multidimensional experience. It encourages them to communicate, collaborate, and research as well as to infuse media into the process. The research uses voice recording of the students as well as questionnaires to determine students’ perspective. This study presents the benefits of digital storytelling for learning and improving the language skills and is expected to make a contribution to the teaching and learning of English to the learners and also to enlighten English teachers. Keywords: digital story board, youngsters, speaking, writing

1. A CLASSROOM EXPERIENCE :
DIGITAL STORY BOARD FOR
YOUNGSTERS

2. What is Digital Storytelling?
Combination of traditional storytelling anddigital
technology
Pictures, backgroundmusicand a story to tell
3 – 10 minutes long

3. Importance of Digital Storytelling
Effective Instructional Tool
for Teachers
Effective Learning Tool for
Students

4. Seven Elements of Effective Digital Stories
A Point of View
A Dramatic Question
Emotional Content
Economy
Pacing
The Gift of Your Voice
An Accompany Soundtrack

5.  It provides knowledge of an applieddigital storyboard
into ICT subject
 The creation of an interactive digital storyboard;
require students to be well-prepared, organized and
technological savvy
Significance of the Study

6. The Implementation
 This study shall contribute significant and practical skills
to English teachers when they are expectedto be able to
innovatively create their own digital storyboard.
Digital storyboardactivities can create productive
environment where the undergraduates’ students develop
theircreative personality andmore positive attitude to
learning the foreign language

7. Classroom Experience
 It was assignedto the thirty students of fourth
semester class B at University of PGRIAdi Buana. The
ICT class students were required to produce four digital
storyboards on topics such as friendship, love story,
unforgettable experience and Indonesian folk tales.

8.  ICT is compulsory for the students. It is intended to
improve students’ English competency for technology
andlanguage skills applications. The students were
dividedinto groups of four to five for each group. This
grouping was heterogeneous basedon students’
language ability. The purpose was to have group
dynamicbetween weak andstrong students and
understanding differences among themselves.

9. Process of Creating Digital Storytelling
 Choose the suitable topic
 Write a script and create a storyboard
Recordaudionarration
Use technology to builda digital story
Revise, publish andshare the final digital story

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14. The Digital Storytelling
Videos

15.  It is a powerful way to motivate students to understand
an academic concept while building their narrative
presentation.
 It allows the students space for peer-to-peer learning
and has a positive effect on students learning outcomes
especially in improvingspeaking and writing skills.
Conclusion

16. Thanks For Your Great
Attention