Interview with Joe Lambert Podcast
The founder and director of the Center for Digital Storytelling. Every community
has a memory of itself. Not a history, nor an archive, nor an authoritative record
... A living memory; an awareness of a collective identity woven of a thousand
stories. - Joe Lambert
Interview with Bernajean Porter Podcast
She talks about some of the resources available on Bernajean’s DigiTales site,
and she gives some great tips for teachers who are interested in trying a
digitalstorytelling project with students. Look at her Digital Storytelling Camp
page for links to specific documents that she mentions.
There have been great societies that did not use the wheel, but there have been no societies that did not tell stories.- Ursula K. LeGuin
Beyond Words:
By the author of Digitales: the art of digital storytelling. Porter discusses the
concept of digital storytelling as well as the power of digital media to convey
visual imagery.
Becoming 21st Century Story Keepers
Bernajean Porter emphasizes the difference between telling what happens and
uncovering the personal meaning of a story.
Students weave digital tales of Oakland life:
Fifth grade students use iMovie to voice experiences and emotions of life in their neighborhood.
Telling Tales With Technology
A comprehensive site that includes storytelling background information, extensive resources, and strategies for implementation.
Does storytelling change in context of new forms of media?
The article introduces the new interactive literacy concept. Are there differences
in the reading and the writing experience with digital versus print?
Using Digital Place-Based StorytellingTo Teach Geographical Thinking
Place-based storytelling, a new adaptation of digital storytelling, a storytelling
vehicle that combines free, user-friendly digital mapping technologies to create
online maps with stories about significant places (both historical and personal).
Digital Storytelling in the Language Arts Classroom:
The article presents an overview a digital storytelling framework and strategie for implementation.
Making a Case for Digital Storytelling:
David Jakes gives examples how digital storytelling empowers some self conscious
writers to voice their peronal stories.
Visual Imagery and the Art of Persuasion:
The power of pictures to make conncections between images and their associated
meaning. Includes suggestions for a visual literacy project on peruation.
Preserving Indigenous Traditions Through Storytelling:
RadioKids project to preserve Hawaiian traditions. A good example for
intergenenrational projects.
Personal Stories
- About someone important: Character stories & Memorial stories
- Event in my life: Adventures stories & Accomplishment stories
- Story About a Place in My Life
- The Story about what I do
- Recovery stories
- Love stories
- Discovery stories
Seven Elements
From Digital Storytelling Cookbook Joe Lambert, et al.
Rollover for details.
The Digital Age is the Storytelling Age... we all get to tell our stories in our own way on the great stage of the Internet... Ohler
Resources
Tips for Better Digital Storytelling
Here are tips that will take the process one step farther.
Examples | Applications | Tutorials | Gif Animations | Audio
Examples
DigiTales: The Art of Telling Digital Stories
A site by author Bernajean Porter dedicated to instruction, resources,
examples and training opportunities all related to digital story telling.
Stories for Change
The power of community digital storytelling rests in its ability to inspire, connect, and incite action within and between local groups; the goal of Stories for Change is to further nurture that spirit online.
Center for Digital Storytelling
Originated at U.C.Berkley, the Center espouses the principle that every
individual has a story to tell. This site contains examples, resources,
instructional materials, learning opportunities and a cookbook.
Handout of Samples
A Word document with examples by category.
David Jakes On-line
A site by renowned digital storytelling workshop presenter dedicated to using
the tools of the digital age to advance pedagogical practice and student
learning.
JasonOhler.com
Visit Jason Ohler's site for information on his upcoming book and links to
other digital storytelling resources.
Tech Head Stories
Storyteller Hilary McLellan has compiled an extensive list of stories, sites,
projects,and publications related to digital storytelling.
StoryCorps
National project to "instruct and inspire Americans to record one another's
stories in sound." Also includes questioning kit for interviewing.
This I Believe
A guide with an example of using this writing format for use with
K - adult applications.
Densho
Preserved testimonies of Japanese Americans incarcerations during WW II
Capture Wales
A BBC sponsored this digital story telling site, which has individuals create
and edit their own personal stories. A great example of the power multimedia presentation can have in capturing human experience.
Bringing Digital Storytelling to the Classroom
Wide variety of examples from adults to students.
Create Book Trailers Samples | How to
Storynory or go to iTunes -> podcasts-> Kids and Family
Audio stories. podcasts, for primary age children
This American Life
NPR show of personal humorous, adventurous and reflective
stories. Click on All Episodes at the tope.
Dana Atchley's Next Exit
The father of digital storytelling's archive.
Centre for Future Storytelling
MIT Media lab and Plymouth Rock Studios. "By applying leading-edge technologies to make stories more interactive, improvisational and social, researchers will seek to transform audiences into active participants in the storytelling process..."
Bernoulli Principle digital storytelling
more science digital stories some much better than others
Place-based storytelling
An adaptation of digital storytelling, a storytelling vehicle that combines free,
user-friendly digital mapping technologies to create online maps with stories
about significant places (both historical and personal).
article
Digital Storytelling Finds its Place in the Classroom - article by Tom Banaszewski, learn about the Place Project done with fourth and fifth grade students. This article focuses on how digital storytelling hooked children (grade 4) onto writing. It provides the step-by-step process the author used.
University of Houston The Educational Uses of Digital Stories
Click on the Examples button for samples in numerous categories.
Digital Storytelling Institute
San Francisco based initiative. Make sure you see the Digi Award winning entries
My Hero Website
A series of digital stories about the unsung heroes of this world.
Storytelling Podcast Directory
Audio stories for all ages from classics to original text.
Digitalstories
Video examples, resources and provides space to submit digital stories to for
online publication.
Creative Narrations
Students and adults tell personal introspective stories
Scott County Schools
Elementary and middle school
Putting the Story into Digital Storytelling
A presentation style .pdf file that stresses the student components of creating
a digital story including the mechanics of story writing such as the elements
of performance literacy - before committing it to a digital format.
A Day in Our Neighborhood Project
The Northwestern University Collaboratory Project invites all K-12 students to participate in the A Day in Our Neighborhood to learn more about the
communities around us. You may just want to use the concept without
actually joining the online project.
ESL high school students stories
http://faculty.lagcc.cuny.edu/eiannotti/7.1/#3
http://faculty.lagcc.cuny.edu/eiannotti/Level8.1/
Youtube
Numerous examples
TeacherTube
A video site which provides educators with a place to view and upload videos. Similar to YouTube, but the site is monitored. A good site to upload student videos.
Steps for implementing digital storytelling in classrooms. Includes resources.
Techszewski
Tom Banaszewski's blog is a great place to read about — and see examples
of digital storytelling over the years. He also includes links to other valuable resources in the field.
The Scribe Initiative
Digital storytelling resources for video and podcasting.
Ideas for Digital Storytelling Across the Curriculum
BubbleShare
BubbleShare is a web 2.0 photo sharing and digital storytelling tool. Create
digital stories online. Students can narrate them with a microphone, saved
on the BubbleShare sever or download to a computer.Users may also visual
bubble captions.
MovieMaker 2
Free Windows video editing program.
File formats for MM2 asf, .avi, .m1v, .mp2, .mp2v, mpe, mpeg, .mpg, .mpv2, .wm, and .wmv
Click here for Tutorials
Excellent MM2 resources at:
Microsoft Windows Movie Maker tips, tutorials, unique special effects, forums
and more...
iMovie 09
Mac video editing program
Photo Story 3
Free simple to use slide show program from Microsoft. You can add text and
audio to your slide show.
Voice Thread
A collaborative multimedia slide show where people can discuss and respond
to images. All browser-based. VoiceThreads: Extending the Classroom with Interactive Multimedia Albums article with lesson ideas. Tutorial pdf and here is a starter sheet
edvoicethread.com is a filtered educational site from Voice Thread. There is a one time $10 fee. Ideas for using Voice Thread | 100 ways to use Voice Thread in education
Our Story
Designed for families to record a time line of events in their lives,
this online tool serves the classroom teacher as an electronic time line for a collection of "stories." Each event on the "playable" timeline is a "story."
Vuvox
An excellent tool for students to use to create multimedia presentations. Students could use Vuvox to create a documentary-style slideshow that includes images and video.tive slide shows. Interactive capabilities.
Mixbooks
Not only can you order a printed copy of your creation, but you can put it online to share and even have others add to it.
Dandelife
Generate a timeline of any kind of event in your life, write as blog-like entry,
apply tags, attach images, videos, bookmarks form other web service sites.
Mapskip
"It is an ancient human instinct to share our life stories with others, as the paintings and hand prints in stone-age caves show. And many of our stories
are about places. Where we fell in love, had the dream vacation, took that
great picture or, well, joined the rebellion. And then there are the many other places that anchor our lives - where we live, eat, work and have fun. Join the MapSkip community in exploring the world through shared stories and
pictures about all the places in our lives."
Celtx
Celtx is a cross-platform media application that provides support for the
entire pre-production process. It does storyboarding, character development,
and so much more. And, it's FREE!
PrimaryAccess
Primary Access is a pilot project developed at the University of Virginia. This
web-based digital tool designed for history teaching allows students to
incorporate primary source documents into a short digital movie. Images and historic artifacts are placed beside the text of the student's script. Students
can record an accompanying narration in their own voice.
In the navigation frame there is a link to the tools, and another link "50 Dominoe Stories" that tells the same story as an example for every tool
DigitalStoryteller is the sister project to PrimaryAccess; where PrimaryAccess focuses on history education, DigitalStoryteller is intended for English/Language Arts instruction.
Wendy Ewald
She has taught photography to children and young people around the world.
(See related article, Wendy Ewald: Children and Photography.) She has encouraged her students to become photographers in their own right, turning
their experiences and dreams into powerful, poetic images. She guides
children how to connect, understand, and tell a story through a picture. Her
book
"I Wanna Take Me a Picture: Teaching Photography and Writing to Children"
Memory Minder
The application is, "...used to discover the threads connecting peoples’ lives across time and place."
Storybird Free online publishing and stories by others you can read. Also has the capabilities to write cooperative stories.
Hoorray
A photo sharing site that lets you add voice and written narratives
Jumpcut
Go to the "Explore" section to watch movies or find shared stuff to use in your
own movies. You can navigate through Movies, Clips, Images, People and
Groups, or you can search for keywords and tags. AND create your own
movies with online editing tools.
JamGlue
Upload, mix, edit, and store audio files online.
Splice Music
Upload, mix, edit, and store audio files online.
Movie Maker 2 Quicktime tutorials
Movie Maker 2 PDF Tutorial
view and print out
Video in the Classroom
Terrific site with iMovie and Movie Maker tutorials. Good simple tips for video production, audio, lighting and camera buying. Ten tips for creating decent
home video Make sure you look at the archive of tips
Film School for Video Podcasters
Excellent short video on video production. Especially good on simple unique storyboarding technique, framing interesting shots and more.
To use gif animations in Powerpoint, save the animation like it was a traditional image. In Powerpoint go to the Insert menu and select Picture from File. |
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FindSounds
Free sound effects for videos, Powerpoints, podcasts, and plays.
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Service Employees International Union member describes her journey to understand her immigrant women coworkers. |
First generation Korean must decide wether to follow her parents' expectations or lead a life dedicated to activism.
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