Digital Storytelling Resources

7 things you should know about Digital Storytelling

50 Tools to Create a Story

BBC Capture Wales

Center for Digital Storytelling

Digital Directors Guild

Digital Stories - Niles Township

Digital Story Telling education - England

Digital Storytelling at the Australian Centre for the Moving Image

Digital Storytelling - Helen C. Barrett

Digital Storytelling - Arizona Learning Interchange

Digital Storytelling - Western Massachusetts Writing Project

Digital Storytelling Finds its Place in the Classroom

Digital Storytelling Across the Curriculum

Digital Storytelling Examples

Educational Uses of Digital Storytelling - University of Houston College of Education

Elements of Digital Storytelling - University of Minnesota

JakesOnline - Digital Storytelling Resources

Memory's Voices - Center for Digital Storytelling

murmur - Toronto

Silence Speaks

Stories for Change

Tech Head Stories

Digital Storytelling Technology Resources

Free Digital Storytelling Tools

Photo Story 3 for Windows

Story Creator

Scratch

Coding (and Consulting) Kid-style with Scratch - THE Journal

Movie Maker - for Windows XP

iMovie - for Mac

Digital Images

Fun with Photos

Music & Sound

Audacity - free cross-platform audio editor

Copyrighted Music & Internet Publishing

Daily Wav TV & Movie Sound Clips - may not be appropriate for K12

Great Soundfiles

Storyboarding & Story Mapping

Ohler's Visual Portrait of a Story - for story mapping

Ohler's Storyboard Templates

Schoolhousevideo Storyboard Form

Simple Form

Storyboard Planning Sheet

Completed Storyboard

Sample Storyboard using drawings

Animatics & Storyboards - fun examples

Free Film Software - Free Software for story development and storyboarding

Storyboard Pro - Free Software

Storyboarding Lesson - Adobe Digital Kids Club

Video

iLife 08 in Education

Kids' Vid - Video Production

Listen Up - Youth Media Network

Making Movies - Unit Plan

Movie Archive

Teaching with iLife

Video with Professor Monkey

Video Storytelling Guide - Atomic Learning

Storytelling Resources

Handbook for Storytellers

Links for Storytellers - Tim Sheppard

Storytelling Gallery

Assessment Resources

Story Development Rubric - Jason Ohler

Digital Story Rubric - Paul Sproll

Digital Story Rubric - Dan Patton

Multimedia Project Rubric

Presentation Rubric

Writing Resources

Story Components PowerPoint

On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft by Stephen King

Stephen King's Writing Toolbox

• Vocabulary
• Grammar
• Style
  • use active verbs
  • use no adverbs (they modify verbs and often end in -ly, such as firmly, menacingly, abjectly, etc.)
  • For dialogue attribution, use said
• The paragraph is the basic unit of writing and writers have to "learn the beat" p135
• "If you want to be a writer, you must do two things above all others: read a lot and write a lot." p14

Storycatcher: Making Sense of Our Lives through the Power and Practice of Story by Christina Baldwin

Christina Baldwin's definition of storycatchers

Storycatchers are

• intrigued by human experience;
• inquisitive about meaning, insight, and learning;
• more curious than judgemental
• more in love with questions than answers;
• empathetic without overidentification;
• able to hold personal boundaries in interpersonal space;
• able to be present while others experience emotions;
• able to be present while others have insight;
• able to safeguard the space for listening;
• able to invite forgiveness, release, and grace;
• aware of story's power and use it consciously;
• practitioners of the heart of language. p29

The Spiral of Experience

Stealing Fire from the Gods: The Complete Guide to Story for Writers & Filmmakers by James Bonnet

Great stories stimulate our imaginations and give us little tastes of paradise. These trigger fantasies, which lead us to desires for actions in the real world. Then, as we pursue these goals, the stories guide us through the passages using meaningful connections, each story revealing a little bit more of the hidden truth. p31

James Bonnet's Six Creative Techniques

• Probing the Fascination
  • any idea, visual image, music, character or situation, that has strong feelings attached to it, that you can explore
• Comparing and Selecting
  • keep the ideas that really haunt you and let go of the rest
• Modeling
  • examine the emotionally-charged ideas you have selected and begin identifying and associating them with the archetypes of the story model
• Conjuring
  • evolve emerging metaphors into more powerful examples of the archetypes
• Testing
  • walk through the whole story passage to see how it feels
• Problem Solving
  • face all problems and negative feelings directly, take them apart, and try something else. p184-187

Secret Immortality of Characters PowerPoint

Writing for Emotional Impact by Karl Iglesias

How to Create a Compelling Log Line

• The dramatic story in the most abbreviated manner
• Set-up, conflict, and resolution
• Effective models:
  • (Title) is a (genre) about a (description of hero) who, after (Inciting Event), wants to (outer goal) by (plan of action).  This becomes increasingly difficult because (obstacles and complications).
  • (Title) is a (genre) about a (description of hero) who must (outer goal) or else (dire thing will happen).

Emotional Impact PowerPoint

Story: Substance, Structure, Style, and The Principles of Screenwriting by Robert McKee

Essence of Story PowerPoint

Circle of Sisters Script - Debra Austin

Bird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life by Anne Lamott

Movie Script Websites

Internet Movie Script Database

Drew's Script-O-Rama

Movie Page - Scripts A-M

Move Page - Scripts N-Z

Creativity

Pixar

The Pixar Way: Part I - What We Didn't Know or My Journey of Pain - blog by Sean Kennelly

The Pixar Way: Part II - Lessons Learned - blog by Sean Kennelly

Trust the Process - visual blog by Jeremy Bernstein

Intellectual Property

Copyright for Teachers and School Librarians - John Brim

Four Factor Fair Use Test - University of Texas

Copyright Kids

Learning & Leading with Technology Articles on Copyright

Technology Standards, 21st Century Skills & Media Literacy

ISTE NETS*S - Technology Foundation Standards for Students

AALS Draft - 21st Century Library Learning Standards

ITEA - Standards for Technological Literacy: Content for the Study of Technology

ITEA - Advancing Excellence in Technological Literacy: Student Assessment, Professional Development, and Program Standards

ITEA Standards Executive Summaries, Standard Lists, and Briefing Videos

enGauge

Learning for the 21st Century

Center for Media Literacy

Core Principles of Media Literacy Education - Alliance for a Medial Literate America

Educational Technology

Maximizing the Impact: The Pivotal Role of Technology in a 21st Century Education System

Top 10 Ed Tech Stories Still Resonate in 2008

MIT OpenCourseWare

Curriki - Global Education Learning Community

OER Commons - Open Educational Resources

iTunes U

Authors@Google - YouTube Lectures

At Google Talks - Video Lectures from Google Author, Candidate and Women Series

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