THE TEACHING OF INTEGRATED ENGLISH PRODUCTIVE SKILLS THROUGH DIGITAL STORYTELLING PROJECT AT GRADE VIII OF SMPN 5 PANGGANG ACADEMIC YEAR 2015/2016 by Laily Amin Fajariyah, M.Pd (SMP 5 Panggang, Gunungkidul) ABSTRACT: Digital storytelling project is one of ICT-based English instructions to promote the teaching of integrated productive skills of English at Grade VIII Semester 1 SMPN 5 Panggang, Gunungkidul in the Academic Year 2015/2016. The project adapts the project-based writing instruction (Hyland, 2003: 10-14) and the model of multimedia- based instructional design by Lee and Owens (2004). This project consists of some phases, those are: (1) selection of topic, (2) design, (3) development, (4) evaluation, and (5) publication. The results of the digital storytelling project were four digital stories made by students, they are entitled: (1) Depok, beach of pleasure, (2) Lovely Indrayanti, (3) Magnificent Prambanan, and (4) the Charming Yogyakarta Palace. They can be accessed in www.youtube.com. The digital storytelling project is also believed to: (a) make students feel happy during the instruction, (b) improve students’ participation in the instructional processes, (c) improve students’ writing skills, (d) improve students’ skills in describing places orally, and (e) improve students’ ICT literacy skills. Key words: digital, storytelling, project, productive, skills INTRODUCTION Today’s children are digital natives who grow up with technology and feel comfortable and confident with it (Dudeney and Hockly, 2007: 5-9). The students in SMPN 5 Panggang, Gunungkidul who live in rural areas are also familiar with technologies, those are internet and smartphone. Some of them use smartphones to take self-camera photos (or now known as selfie photos) then upload them in their social media such as facebook and instagram. They rarely use their smartphones for supporting their studies. As a teacher, I have to help them to use the facilities to support the teaching and learning process. Beside the use of smartphones and internet accessed owned by the students, SMPN 5 Panggang, Gunungkidul is also equipped with the Information and Communication technologies. The school has 11 PCs available for students and they are connected to the internet. However, the use of them was still limited in the Information and Communication technology class (ICT class). They were not optimally used to support the other school subjects and moreover some of them were broken due to its poor management. Regarding the students’ strength who are ICT literate and analyzing the school’s facilities, an instructional process which make use of the technologies is needed.