Daniel Meadows defines digital stories as “short, personal multimedia tales told from the heart.”  After completing my own digital story I really feel that students can achieve a lot by making one themselves.

Educational Uses of Digital Storytelling describes a number of skills achieved by students from creating their own digital story.  Such as conducting research, synthesizing large amounts of content and gaining expertise in the use of digital communication and authoring tools. It also helps students to organise these ideas as they learn to create stories for an audience, and present their ideas and knowledge in an individual and meaningful way.

I imaging students would feel a great sense of accomplishment after developing their own story.  Sharing their story with their class mates would then, not only demonstrate their skills in story writing, and their ability to adapt to the medium but would share a personal message.