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This research aimed at investigating the effectiveness of using educational video clips on YouTube to develop digital storytelling production skills among female students at faculty of education in Al-Aqsa University and their attitudes towards using YouTube. The sample of the study consisted of (37) female students, they were divided randomly into two equivalent groups (control and experimental), the researcher adopted the technical methodology based on systems approach and the experimental design based on two groups, experimental and control groups. The researcher prepared an achievement test, an attitude scale towards using YouTube and a product evaluation card for digital storytelling production skills. The results showed statistically significant differences, between the control and experimental group in the post application of both the achievement test and product evaluation card, in favor of the experimental group. There was a statistically significant difference, between the means of pre and post application of the attitude scale, in favor of the post application. The results also showed a great effect for educational video clips on developing (cognitive, performance skills, and affective) domains, the modified Blake's gain ratio was not achieved in these domains. The researcher proposed some recommendation, the most important of which: the need to organize seminars, workshops and training courses for teachers before and after service, about digital storytelling, its production and employing it effectively in education. (Published abstract)