Over the last year, we have become more and more enthusiastic about the potential of new technologies to enhance teaching and learning. The reason for this enthusiasm is the very simple-to-use software that is mostly free and allows everyone – adults, kids, and teens to create creative content and share it over the web. Ohler takes us into the realm of digital storytelling. First he tells us about the possibilities of enhancing literacy, links us to standards, describes methods of storytelling, and then helps us produce a digital product using free tools on the Mac or PC. He encourages us to have children and teens learn to write and produce their own stories by teaching them to story mat – a technique for understanding how a story works using a graphical model. We can think of all kinds of applications beyond just the reading of stories on line, or the writing of stories through production. Using these techniques, we see students as individuals or groups creating digital story biographies or oral presentations using story as the central narrative interest catcher. Even better, we can share the products on the Internet to be available instantly for parents, board members, judges in competitions, and even uploaded to YouTube. We give this one a big plus. A required read. A required DO IT! ( )