Digital Storytelling Collections:

• Examples of digital storytelling types – from Moving at the Speed of Creativity
• Digital Story Examples – from the Center for Digital Storytelling
• Digital Video Contest Winner

• Digital Storytelling Web Site from the United Kingdom. This is an intriguing site that documents the use of digital storytelling projects with ESL students. It uses motion video, blue screens, and clay animation as techniques for creating digital stories.

Digital Storytelling Tutorials:

• The Digital Storytelling process – from TeachingTeachers.com
• The Elements of Digital Story Telling – A project of the University of Minnesota School of Journalism and Mass Communication
• Educational Uses of Digital Storytelling – from the University of Huston
• Digital Storytelling Checklist – a MS Word document
• Assessment Rubric for Digital Storytelling Project - a MS Word document
• Place-Based Digital Storytelling Modules

Other Digital Sorytelling Resources:

• Digital Storytelling – a collection of resources from Dr. Helen Barrett
• The Competitive Voice – David Jakes’s Digital Storytelling Blog -
• One story told 50 ways – with 50+ Web 2.0 tools
• A Guide to digital Storytelling - by members of the BBC Capture Wales / Cipolwg ar Gymru team
• Copyright and Digital Storytelling –  from the Universirty of Huston
• Digital Storytelling 2.0: What’s Next? - by David Jakes
• Digitales –  The art of Digital Storytelling – created by Bernajean Porter
• Teach Digital Storytelling: Curriculum by Wes Fryer

Photo Story 3 Resources:

• Official Photo Story 3 Web Site
• Create Your First Photo Story
• Photo Story FAQs
• Advanced Photo Story Techniques

Digital Story Creation Tools

• The Story Creator –  A Web based story creation tool
• The Digital Storyteller  - a Web based tool for creating digital stories
• Online Storytelling Tools - 50+ web tools you can use to create your own web-based story.

Online Collections of Photographs

• Creative Commons Flickr Collections – Attribution Only – over 13 million photographs
• Creative Commons Flickr Photos – all license types  - over 100 million photographs
• Picturing the Century – from the National Archives
• Smithsonian Images - Collections of the Office of Imaging and Photographic Services
• Public Domain, Copyright Free, Open Source, and Student Use Images and Media – from Teacher Tap

Audio Resources

• Musopen – Free Public Domain Classical Music
• Public Domain Music - MIDI recordings for a substantial collection of early-American music
• Free Music Archive - The Free Music Archive is an interactive library of high-quality, legal audio downloads. The Free Music Archive offers free downloads under Creative Commons and other licenses. Please visit the track page to discover what you can and cannot do with each track.
• Jam Studio - Have students create their own music
• Royalty Free Music- The Royalty Free Music Clips, Royalty Free Music Loops, Royalty Free Beats, Royalty Free Bumpers and Stingers, and Royalty Free Sound Effects, posted on this page may be used, in Educational, student and personal, not-for-profit projects, free of charge. The free royalty free music clips on this special page change regularly and can be downloaded by Educators, students and individuals looking for high quality background music, production music, to use in their projects.
• Public Domain Music and Free Audio Downloads – An index of online music resources – but make sure you read the fine print!

Articles:

• Capturing Stories, Capturing Lives: An Introduction to Digital Storytelling – by David Jakes
• Telling Tales with Technology – by Judy Salpeter
• The Art of Digital Storytelling – by Hall Davidson and Bernajean Porter
• Digital Storytelling Research Design by Helen C. Barrett, Ph.D. – includes two rubrics and a literature review

Last updated: Jan 14, 2010 at 10:19 pm