Indonesia Conference Directory

This research is motivated by the need for the media to instill character in pre-school age children in orphanages. The purpose of this study is to create a digital story telling in character instilling of pre-school age children in orphanages. The research method uses Research and Development (R&D) with a research model of Planning, Production, and Evaluation (PPE). Research instruments are interview guidelines form and Expert Judgment Validation Sheet. Participants in this study amounted to two validators consisting of media experts and material experts. The results of making digital story telling media include aspects of the media and the material is in “proper to use” criteria. The results of the validation based on expert material assessment such as appropriate grammar, vocabulary, and selected phrases, sentences delivered with words, word stresses and intonation are appropriate, the language used is easily understood by preschoolers, ideas according to the story and the contents of the story support the character value of preschoolers, the message in the story can be understood by preschoolers. The aspects of media assessment consist of software engineering aspects and visual communication aspects. Recommendations are addressed to caregivers so that this Digital Story telling can be used as a medium to instill character values in pre-school age children in orphanages. For further researchers, it is expected to conduct studies on other variables related to the use of digital story telling, namely the implementation of digital story telling in orphanages.