Digital Storytelling: Teaching Aid for E-Learning to Improve the Quality of Non-Formal Students of Teachers' Training and Education

This article discus about digital storytelling as supporting materials for the e-learning portal in students of Non-Formal Department. It tells about the process to create a digital storytelling as teaching aid for literal listening subject. It has urgency to give contribution for the effective and fun English learning. Qualitative approach is used to analyze the data. The research started with collecting sources for creating the digital storytelling on stories entitled "Aunt "Polly" and "Tom Fight" by Mark Twain. It started from inventorying the teaching and learning stuff such as syllabus, lesson plan, software, and the digital contents of the storytelling made. The researchers choose Audacity 3.5 Beta, and Windows Moviemaker 2.6, as the software for editing audio and creating video. The stories are made for improving the students listening skills either bottom-up or top down. The result of this research proves digital storytelling can be used in E-learning portal, such as Edmodo. The questionnaires result shows that digital storytelling is an interesting material, but need to be modified more in e-learning.