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Narrative Digital Identity
A Narrative Digital Identity is a digital media production of storytelling through digital tools. The individual identity is told through the merging of life experience through a story. The narrative must include characters, plots, themes, settings, imagery, etc. The narrative should also be structured in the form of having a beginning, middle and end. The narrative understanding is important to use as a cognitive tool in which one can make sense of the world. Human beings have the tendency to organize individual experiences into a narrative form. This helps to contribute to meaningful actions and events to be organized and shared.

Introduction
The term of narrative digital identity is developing into a more common term in todays digital age. The use of digital tools to create and then share with the internet world is becoming more common. This narrative digital identity is also interchangeably known as digital storytelling in which the story teller can upload to social or youtube. This has gained popularity in social, cultural, and historical context throughout the digital world.

Uses in Education
The use of narrative digital identity is used within the educational system in order to develop engagement for students in the 21st century. With the abundance of the technology tools, such as desktop computers for all students, ipads, tablets, cellphones, etc. being used in the classroom the access to the digital world is easily assessable.

Author Murray eludes to the common view point of the compute age often being overwhelming with information. She explains how we should push the technology in both an analytical and synthetic medium. We should develop it as a tool for serious inquiry. This method of integrating the technology into the educational instruction could appeal to students due to the procedural portion of the digital narrative exhibiting rule-generated behavior.

Storytelling Process
The storytelling process is for a narrative is developed in a structured manner. As Murray(1997) stated, "the computer can be a compelling medium for storytelling if we can write rules for it that are recognizable as an interpretation of the world" (73). Through developing a beginning, middle and end structure the ability to create using this process is easy and attainable. The story tellers/story makers are able to share their individual personal experiences. This allows for a more coherent and many time considered more "true" way of seeing value in the world. This also allows for the ability of "fashioning of their daily lives" (Fisher,1986). The invention of creating a plot for the purpose of this story telling is essential for the story telling process in order to develop a structured narrative.