The subject of the current research is to demonstrate how digital storytelling empowers English students’ communication skills. The purpose of the study is to reveal how multimedia tools can empower students to learn digital storytelling. The objective of the article is to demonstrate how digital storytelling could be integrated into a variety of activities in foreign language class. The article provides information about the communication skills formed with the help of digital narration, software tools; about the correlation of web applications with presentation forms and multimedia resources. It presents services enabling one to create digital narration with varying extent of multimedia presentation. This article presents an overview of digital storytelling. The authors prove that various genres including poetry can be used to develop English language students’ communication skills through digital storytelling