The aim of this chapter is to discuss digital storytelling in the context of education. Two questions guide the study: What is a digital story and what is a good digital story? What is the motivation for making a digital story? I have examined short multimodal personally-told digital stories published on the Internet. As a theoretical framework for the discussion I have compared digital storytelling with storytelling traditions in, what Walter Ong calls, the oral and the written culture. The result implies that the definition of a (good) digital story depends on what is considered a narrative. By transcending what has traditionally been considered narrative and by defining narrative in a broader sense, digital storytelling is an innovative tool and serves as a promising activity facilitating learning and development in the post modern society.

Kapitlet bygger på en studie där digitala berättelser publicerade på URs Rum för Berättande analyseras med syftet att förstå innebörden av digitalt berättande. En diskussion förs om digitalt berättande som ett pedagogiskt verktyg.