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What is Digital Storytelling?

Digital storytelling involves the use of digital tools to help people tell their own personal stories in a compelling and emotionally engaging way. Digital Stories weave images, music, voice and narrative together to create rich dimensions in order to powerfully depict situations, characters and experiences. This webpage contains links to several digital stories and provides useful resources for creating your own digital story. An introduction to digital storytelling can be found on the Center for Digital Storytelling webpages and a copy of the PowerPoint presentation given by Dr Phil Gravestock (University of Gloucestershire) presented at BU in June 2008 can be viewed via the following link - I want to Tell you a Story...

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Digital Stories: A Selection

A rich resource of digital stories from a range of service men and women can be found at Digiclub.

A range of student and teachers digital stories can be viewed at the Digitalstories webpages.

The following are several digital stories under the main themes of community, identity, education, family, health and location.

Community
My Story by Kim Dennis
Breaking Free by Griffin Kinnard
Dear Jody by Sasha Charles
Home Movies by Dana Atchley

Identity
New Orleans by Gina Allen
Reunion Story by Cherlyn Boyce
Mixed Race Me by Yunnie TsaoSnyder
Untitled by Kevin West

Education
M.S.K. Running by Morne Solomon
Untitled by Saul Ramos

Family
Rituals by Kerry Ballast
Mama Bisrat by Thomas Paul
Ironing by Ryan Trauman

Health
Alan by Albert Delgad
Limbo by Kara Kotler
Healing by Annamieka Hopps

Location
Home...in past tense. by Bix Gabriel
The Mountains by Amy Johns
The Talking Tree by Surya Govender

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Creating a Digital Story

Tips on creating your story can be found on the Storycentre and Digitales webpages and a comprehensive information resource has been produced by Creative Commons.

Free to use images and animations can be found on the following pages:
Animation Station
Flickr
Font Play photos
Free Graphics photos
Free Photographs
Fresher Image (subscription required)
Morguefile Photos (subscription required)
Pics 4 Learning
Stocked Photos (subscription required)

Free to use music clips can be found on the following pages:
Classic Music Archives
Fresh Music
MidiWorld Sample Music
Music Bakery Sample Music
Partners in Rhyme 

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Assessing Digital Stories

Resources to help with the complex task of assessing digital stories are Digitales Evaluation, Docudrama Scoring Guide and Docudrama Online Scoring Guide.


 

References

Banaszewski, T. Digital Storytelling finds its Place in the Classroom.

Cloninger, C. 2000. A Case for Web Storytelling.

Davis, Ben. 2000. Digital Storytelling.

Howell, C. The World of Digital Storytelling

Howell, DD. and Howell, DK. 2003. Digital Storytelling: Creating an eStory (Technology and Its Application). Linworth Publishing.

King, L. 2008. Digital Story Telling Stories Create a Storm at Mt. Waverley.

Lambert, J. 2002. Digital Storytelling: Capturing Lives, Creating Communities. Life on the Water Inc.

Lasica, D. 2002. Digital Tools Easier to Grasp: Digital center helps people hold up a lens to their own lives. Online Journalism Review.

Matthews- DeNatale, G. 2008. Digital Storytelling Tips and Resources.

Miller, CH. 2004. Digital Storytelling: A Creator's Guide to Interactive Entertainment. Focal Press.

Mundi, M. 1999. Telling the Story: An interview with Rebecca Pranger.

Ohler, J. 2007. Digital Storytelling in the Classroom: New Media Pathways to Literacy, Learning, and Creativity. Corwin Press.

Standley, M. and Via, S. 2004. Digital Storytelling with iMovie. Visions Technology in Education.

Teehan, K. 2006. Digital Storytelling: In and Out of the Classroom. Lulu.com.

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