title: Voices from the heart: the use of digital story telling in education.
abstract: Digital storytelling has emerged as a powerful teaching and learning tool, which presents personal narratives, images and music to create a unique and sometimes emotional snapshot into another person's experience. By offering a platform for sharing and understanding such narratives, professionals may gain insight into a perceived experience and construct their role accordingly. Used effectively, they can engage the listener and offer opportunity to reflect and consider the impact of their professional role on the storyteller. This article looks at how digital storytelling can enhance professional practice and enable vulnerable voices to be heard.
authors.affiliation: Kent Community Health NHS Trust. Jackie.Matthews5@nhs.net
authors.forename: Jackie
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Matthews
mesh_terms: D003146:Communications Media; D003194:Computer-Assisted Instruction / Q000379:methods*; D003201:Computers; D003626:Data Display; D004506:Education, Nursing / Q000379:methods*; D006801:Humans; D009740:Nursing Staff / Q000193:education*; D063545:Personal Narratives as Topic; D012984:Software; D006113:United Kingdom