Storytelling-the digitial way

I never been introduced to digital storytelling until now. What a fantastic concept! There were so many website Dr. S. supplied the class with on all aspects of digitial storytelling. One website that stood out to be above all the rest was Tips for digital story telling,
here is a section I took out that I thought will be extremely helpful while creating my visual effects when I start to create my digital story:

• Transitions between images help tell the story. Students need to know what different transitions imply. I use a punctuation metaphor to teach transitions. A "cut", or no transition, is like a comma or no punctuation mark, and serves to quickly move between two closely related ideas. A "dissolve" resembles a period, and suggests a change to a related idea. A "fade" is like a new paragraph and suggests a change of topics or passage of time. A particularly effective technique is the use of a black screen for several seconds: with or without sound. Beyond these, most transitions are superfluous and distracting and should be discouraged.
• Pans and zooms can add movement to static images, focus the audience, or give a sense of place for an object. In most cases, slow movement is best so as not to distract the audience.
• Text as art can be an effective method for focusing the audience on a particular line, by using actual text on the screen. Select lines that are particularly important and use a plain font. Text can be used in lieu of narration or in addition. Printed words can also be used to emphasize song lyrics.

I still have not decided what my digital story will be about. It has to be something we would use in our classroom,however, I am not a teacher yet so I don't really know what I could focus on. I downloaded PhotoStory3 so I will be using that to create my story. Stay tuned to see what my digital story will be about.....