Digital Storytelling Resources
Using Creative Commons for Pictures and Photo Story 3 to Create a Movie
- Flickr – Creative Commons
- Flickr – Creative Commons Attribution License Search
- Instructions_for_finding and citing images on Flickr
- Example of the Powerpoint slide used to cite Flickr pictures
- Photo Story 3 Download Page
- Photo Story 3 Tutorial
Sharing Your Digital Stories
- Link to A Web site - Examples
- Burn to a CD
- Send as an e-mail attachment
- Upload to ed.Voicethread
- Embed in Google Earth
- Example of video embedded in a placemark - Westford Farm Videos
- Instructions for embedding a video in a Google Earth placemark
- Google Earth Web Site
- Embed in a Google Map
- Example of video embedded in a Google Maps placemark - UVM Basketball
- Instructions for embedding a video in a Google Maps placemark
- Embed in a Web page
- Using SchoolTube – Here are some instructional videos
- Embed in a Wiki or other online multimedia sites
- PBWiki Example – a provider for business and educational workspaces.
- Glogster Example
- Use a file transfer program like filedropper
Resources
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 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.
Multimdia Resources
Online Collections of Photographs
- NEW - Collection of Public Domain Images from Edtechteacher.org
- Creative Commons Flickr Collections – Attribution Only – over 17 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
Handouts
Creating Digital Stories
- Instructions_for finding and citing images on Flickr
- An example of assigning Creative Commons attributions with a screen shot of thumbnails
- When to use PowerPoint and when to use Photo Story – a comparison
- When to use Photo Story and when to use Movie Maker – the pros and cons of each tool
- Photo Story 3 Tutorial
- Getting Photos from MS Office
- Create a Video with Windows Movie Maker
Sharing Digital Stories
- Directions for adding a video to ed.Voicethread
- Instructions for embedding a video in a Google Earth or Google Maps placemark
Last updated: Feb 11 at 8:29 am