A Hotlist on Digital Storytelling

A Hotlist on Digital Storytelling
An Internet Hotlist on Digital Storytelling

created by Pen Campbell

Introduction
Third Coast Digital Storytellers--here's a selection of sites to browse before, during, and after our getting-started workshop. I've placed sites in categories, but they often overlap.

The Internet Resources

Seven Elements of Digtial Storytelling - This tutorial walks you through the Center for Digital Storytelling's Seven Elements--the basics of the traditional personal narrative digital story. Be sure to click on the links that allow you to read example scripts.
Staff: Writing to Learn -

Sites with examples to view

BBC Wales: Capture Wales - A great collection of digital stories made by people all over Wales. I initially had some trouble viewing the stories, but was finally able to by right clicking on the image from the movie that is the hot link and selecting 'Copy Link Location.' I then pasted that into the URL line in RealPlayer and it finally played. Each story has some interesting process talk as well in the form of a mini interview with the storyteller and the script of the story as well.
Create a Book Talk - This is a lesson and an example of how students can create a book talk using iMovie. The students select various books from the library and try to “sell” them to others by telling a story. This is a good example of using digital storytelling in the language arts curriculum. *from Digital Storytelling with PowerPoint by Standley and Ormiston
Creative Narrations - View examples of digital stories made in various Boston area workshops.
Digital Storytelling Summer Camp for Students - This is the sequence for the activities and projects for a student summer camp. This is filled with links and activities to various projects. *from Digital Storytelling with PowerPoint by Standley and Ormiston
Digital Storytelling: Tell Me a Story - This is an overview found on the Apple site about how to transform a story into a digital story, Step by step procedure and links to other resources are included. *from Digital Storytelling with PowerPoint by Standley and Ormiston
Jennifer's Digital Story - This is a great example of a digital story made by a Third Coast Teacher Consultant about the story of her name.
Student Gallery-Student Music - This page on the Apple.com site contains links to student examples of digital stories and student music.
The Monarch Butterfly Story - Use the power of multimedia to tell the story of the Monarch Butterfly. *from Digital Storytelling with PowerPoint by Standley and Ormiston
We Didn’t Start the Fire - This lesson plan and iMovie is a wonderful example of digital storytelling in the history classroom. The music is motivating and teachers and students alike love this one! *from Digital Storytelling with PowerPoint by Standley and Ormiston

Sites with background and instruction

30 Second Candidate: Tricks of the Trade - This PBS site steps the viewer through creating a political ad, showing how manipulating the various elements like music, voiceover, and sound effects changes the meaning of the text.
The Center for Digital Storytelling - Many would say this is where digital storytelling got started. The site has tons of good material for browsing. The 'Resources' link is especially good. That's where you'll find the Digital Story Cookbook with the Seven Elements we'll be talking about.
These Stories In These Pictures - A guide to writing into images prepared for the Canadian Film Centre's Great Canadian Storytelling Engine. Easily accessible website--starts story with three images. Discusses metaphor,expectation, economy, pacing--more.

Sites for the teacher researcher

4Teachers.org Project Based Learning - More rubric help
Achieving Literacy across the Curriculum: Telling our Story with Emerging Technology - This is a professional development plan for a school district using handhelds and other technologies to explore digital storytelling. This site includes links to other projects, evaluation questions and a sequence of various activities. *from Digital Storytelling with PowerPoint by Standley and Ormiston
Digital Storytelling Finds Its Place in the Classroom - A excellent teacher article that addresses many specifics of managing digital story work with students in the classroom.
Digitales - Very comprehensive site on evaluation. Create your own or use one provided.
Educational Technology Planning--Michigan Dept. Ed. - This site will get you to the Michigan Educational Technology Standards (METS) for K-12.
Michigan's K-12 Curriculum and Standards web page - This link will get you to the Standards and Grade Level Content Expectations for the state of Michigan.
New Learning Literacies:The Global Classroom - This workshop examines various issues associated with new learning literacies and paradigms, and reviewing classroom applications of current educational theory in these areas.
Teachers.org - Rubistar helps you create rubrics for your project-based learning

Sites with other innovative digital stuff

Born Magazine - Rather than digital stories, perhaps these are more like digital poems. The text appears in print with interactive images that accompany it. Definitely interesting.

Sites with all of the above...and more

Adobe Digital Kids Club - Variety of excellent resources for creating digital stories--includes examples to view.
American Photography: A Century of Images - Fantastic site--part of PBS.org. Be sure to visit the image lab which, among other things, allows you to 'create a political candidate' by changing elements of a picture and observing the effects of the manipulated image. Brought to you by the Ministry of Truth!
Helen Barrett's Digital Storytelling - A useful site prepared by Helen C. Barrett, Ph.D (probably as a resource for a class) that contains background sites as well as sites with samples of digital stories. interesting idea on 'Electronic Portfolio as Digital Story of Learning - Digital Storytelling as Reflective Portfolio.'
Tech Head Stories (Hillary McLellan's Link) - This is a FANTASTIC resource. Lots and lots of useful info and sites. Many examples sites on which to view digital stories.

Image sources and photo editing sites

Flickr - Check out 'The Commons' and 'Creative Commons' available from this site--plenty of free use photos. Also--upload your own photos here as well.
FreeFoto.com - This link takes you directly to the educational policy page of FreeFoto--lots of great pictures.
Paint.net - Yet another free online photo editor
Picasa - Another free online photo editor--this one from Google
Picnik.com - Free online photo editor
Pics4Learning - Copyright-free images students can search without fear of 'Oh-my' surprises of some other sites.

Content by Pen Campbell, pcampbel@remc11.k12.mi.us
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Last revised Tue Oct 27 3:55:48 US/Pacific 2009