Digital Storytelling Resources

Digital Storytelling Implementation Materials

Written Composition Approach

1. Center for Digital Storytelling (Joe Lambert)
2. Digital Storytelling Cookbook from the Center for Digital Storytelling
3. DigiTales (Bernajean Porter)
4. Digital Storytelling as ePortfolios (Helen Barrett)

Oral Composition Approach - Appropriate for Oral Language Dominant Students/Teachers

1. 8 Steps to Engaging Voices in the Middle (by Dr. JoAnne Ollerenshaw)
2. 8 Steps to Effective Storytelling (by Dr. JoAnne Ollerenshaw)
3. Oral-Problem Solution Narrative Structure
4. Oral Storytelling Flow
5. Planning Storyboard
6. Parent Permission Form for Electronic Display of Student Work
7. Teacher Equipment Checkout Form

Tutorials

1. Audacity - Recording (Developed by Larry Stegall)
2. Digital Storytelling with MovieMaker
3. MovieMaker Tutorial
   • PhotoStory Tutorials**

• PhotoStory Tutorial (Developed by Larry Stegall
  • David Jakes’ PhotoStory ScreenCast Tutorials
    • David Jakes’ Tutorial
    • Tutorial 1 - Beginning the digital storytelling process, corresponds to pages 1-2 of the tutorial handout.
    • Tutorial 2 - Removing black borders from images, corresponds to page 3 of the tutorial handout.
    • Tutorial 3 - Adding text to a title slide or image, corresponds to page 4 of the tutorial handout.
    • Tutorial 4 | Adding your voice narration.
    • View all eleven screencasts at David Jakes’ site

Image Sources

1. Blank Powerpoint slides
2. Search Creative Commons
3. FlickrCC - a great, easy resource for accesing creative commons Flickr images.
4. Flickr Creative Commons - inappropriate images may be encountered
5. Ms. Griffin’s Photos
7. Copyright Friendly Images
8. David Warlick’s Image Sources
9. Free Stock Images

Audio Resources

1. Play It Free 100 Sample Sounds
2. Partners in Rhyme Royalty Free Sound
3. Creative Commons Audio
4. Yahoo Creative Commons Search
5. FreePlayMusic
6. Internet Archive’s Open Source Audio
7. OpSound: Open Sound Resource Pool
8. CCMixter: Songs licensed for remixing
9. The Free Sound Project
10. Magnatune: Permits use of audio files in podcasts with attribution
11. Penmachine Podcast: Free MP3 Instrumental Songs

Audio-Editing Tools

• Audacity
• MP3DirectCut

Digital Story Creation Tools

Software

(you can use one or all of these depending on your purpose)

• Storyboarding Software - Cross-platform. Read the wiki
• Microsoft PhotoStory; use the Jodix Freeware Ipod Video Converter to put the Photostory WMV file into a web-friendly format.
• Microsoft MovieMaker
• iMovie
• Final Cut Pro Express (Macintosh)
• Adobe Premiere (Windows)
  • Note:** These software tools are available for free and come with your installation of Windows or Macintosh. Currently, there are no open source digital storytelling tools available.

Web-based

• SlideStory enables you to store images and add audio narration.

Other Web Site Resources

• Listen to an audio interview with Joe Lambert, Director of The Center for Digital Storytelling
• Listen to an audio interview with Bernajean Porter
• The Center for Digital Storytelling
• 7 Elements of Digital Storytelling
• Digital Stories in a 4th Grade Classroom
• The Art of Telling Digital Stories: This web site includes a variety of resources, especially Seven Steps to Creating Digital Stories.
• Digital Storytelling Resources: This presents an exhaustive list of digital storytelling resources on the Web.

EXAMPLES OF DIGITAL STORIES

• Bringing Digital Stories to the Classroom Learnshop
• DigiTales Gallery