Digital Storytelling Links

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Digital Storytelling Resources

1. ‣Center for Digital Storytelling (The Center for Digital Storytelling is a California-based non-profit 501(c)3 arts organization rooted in the art of personal storytelling.)
   

2. ‣DigiTales (Welcome to a world of resources, examples and training opportunities to inspire your own digital storytelling tales!)
   

3. ‣Tech Head Stories (Great list of links related to digital storytelling)
   

4. ‣The Elements of Digital Storytelling (Information on the elements of a digital story)
   

5. ‣Educational Uses of Digital Storytelling (A website devoted to the Educational Uses of Digital Storytelling)
   

6. ‣Stories for Change (“Stories for Change is an online meeting place for community digital storytelling facilitators and advocates.”)
   

7. ‣Jason Ohler (Jason Ohler is the author of Digital Storytelling in the Classroom.  "He is a speaker, writer, teacher, researcher, and lifelong digital humanist who is well known for the passion, insight, and humor he brings to his presentations, writings, and projects.")
   

8. ‣Jake’s Online-Digital Storytelling Resources
   

9. ‣The Digital Storytelling Initiative
   

10. ‣The Educational Uses of Digital Storytelling (from the University of Houston)
    

Sample Stories

1. ‣Sherri and Melissa’s Stories (Sherri and Melissa's digital story samples created in the Center for Digital Storytelling workshops)
   

2. ‣Center for Digital Storytelling Samples (Sample movies from the Center for Digital Storytelling)
   

3. ‣Colorado History Museum “Imagine a Great City” (“The second workshop with the Colorado History Museum and the Center for Digital Storytelling....we are collecting stories from a diverse range of longtime Denver residents for inclusion in the upcoming museum exhibit for Denver’s 150th birthday, highlighting Denver neighborhoods. The exhibit will be up starting in November 2008.”  The first workshop exhibit was “Italians in Denver.”)
   

4. ‣More Stories from the Center for Digital Storytelling (View movie samples in groups including community, education, family, health, identity, and place)
   

5. ‣Streetside Stories (Tech Tales builds on the Storytelling Exchange, helping 7th graders write stories about their lives and turn them into short movies, or digital stories)
   

6. ‣Capture Wales (This is a site where you can watch RealMedia movies made and edited by people at digital storytelling workshops around Wales)
   

7. ‣Digital Stories from Niles Township HS District 219 (This website was designed to showcase digital stories told by students, teachers and our community
   

8. ‣Long Elementary Story Podcasts (After students in Mr. Pantaleo’s fourth and fifth grade split classroom completed an author study on the children’s author Chris Van Allsburg, students used his picture book, Mysteries of Harris Burdick, as inspiration to write their own stories.)
   

Articles

1. ‣Digital Storytelling Cookbook (This book, published by the Center for Digital Storytelling, explains the basic foundations of Digital Storytelling)
   

2. ‣What’s Your Story? (By Daniel Pink, Fast Company)
   

3. ‣A Multilevel Approach to Using Digital Storytelling in the Classroom (Bernard R. Robin & Melissa E. Pierson-University of Houston, Instructional Technology Program
   

4. ‣Storytellers of the New Millennium (The World of Digital Storytelling By Corey Hitchcock)
   

5. ‣Digital Storytelling Finds Its Place in the Classroom (by Tom Banaszewski, Infoday)
   

6. ‣Digital Storytelling: A Tutorial in 10 Easy Steps (Expert tips on creating a polished, professional digital video-By: J.D. Lasica, October 2, 2006)
   

7. ‣Digital Storytelling (from EdTechTalk K12-2007-Supporting Lifelong Digital Learners, Educators and Classrooms)
   

8. ‣The Educator’s Guide to Copyright and Fair Use (from TechLearning)
   

9. ‣The World of Digital Storytelling (from Jason Ohler)
   

10. ‣50+ Web 2.0 Ways to Tell a Story
    

11. ‣Web 2.0 Storytelling: Emergence of a New Genre
    

12. ‣Open Discussion on Web 2.0 Storytelling
    

13. ‣Digital Storytelling Goes Hollywood
    
    

Software Tutorials

1. ‣iLife Tutorials (This resource from Apple shows Quicktime video tutorials for each title in the iLife suite)
   

2. ‣Final Cut Tutorials (Another great resource from Apple)
   

3. ‣Adobe Premiere (The official Adobe Premiere Help Site)
   

4. ‣General Adobe Tutorials (This site provides general tutorials for Adobe software)
   

5. ‣Video Tutorials (This site includes general video creating tutorials (This is Melissa's Favorite-she recommends subscribing to their newsletter)
   

6. ‣Microsoft Tutorials (Microsoft education tutorials)
   
   

Miscellaneous

1. ‣Quicktime Download (Download the newest version of Quicktime for your Mac or PC for free.) 
   

2. ‣Comic Life Education Resources (Resources on how to use comic life in education. Comic Life is a great tool for storyboarding.  (Includes the new PC Beta Download)
   

3. ‣Make Beliefs Comix (Online Educational Comic Generator)
   

4. ‣Rubistar (RubiStar is a free tool to help teachers create quality rubrics)
   

5. ‣Recipes for Success-myt4l Rubric Maker (Use the Rubric Maker to make customized assessments for student work)
   

6. ‣Essential Question Links (These essential question links come from the Educational Technology Website at Douglas County School District)
   

7. ‣NETS-Technology Standards for Students (The National Educational Technology Standards (NETS) Project is an ongoing initiative of the International Society for Technology in Education (ISTE) 
   

8. ‣Copyright and Fair Use Guidelines (This article talks more in-depth about Fair Use and Copyright)
   

9. ‣Fair Use/Copyright Chart (This is a printable chart on the important points for Fair Use and Copyright)
   

10. ‣Fair Use with Kids (Kathy Schrock has put together this great pdf to use with kids for Fair Use)
    

11. ‣US Copyright Office-Copyright Law (Copyright Law of the United States of America and Related Laws Contained in Title 17 of the United States Code)
    

12. ‣Download a DVD Case Insert for making your finished DVDs look just like they came from the video store-You have to have Word installed on your computer to be able to use this Word file-It was created on a Mac. (dvd case insert.doc)
    

13. ‣Download a chart that you can use in your classroom to help monitor where kids are at in the digital storytelling process.  (Tracking Chart.pdf)