The art of storytelling has long been a multimedia affair. From cave paintings to Shakespearean plays to graphic novels, communicating that makes use of combinations of audio, visual, and written texts offers complimentary ways for adult learners to make sense of information. Although academics have long-relied on books and journal articles as the most legitimate sources of knowledge, a growing literature about multimedia and multimodal learning identifies the ways that the brain processes and stores information better through the use of combinations of sensory information (Shams & Seitz, 2008), thereby enhancing comprehension. Coupled with Bloom’s Taxonomy, and the updated Bloom’s Digital Taxonomy, the social worker can understand the ways that manipulating and creating digital tools for storytelling can add value to communicating a story for both the author and audience.

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