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Resources for digital storytelling
Updated on Dec 21, 12
Created on Mar 10, 10
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Compelling and engaging, genuine and authentic, community created digital stories derive their impact by weaving images, music, narrative and voice together, thereby giving deep dimension and vivid color to characters and experiences. Using new media we can explore cultural understanding and competence, and with new tools for collaboration and connectivity, we can tell those stories. Our stories. Dakari's Story (http://dsi.kqed.org/index.php/projects/story_big/146/). Community Mapping Project (http://dsi.kqed.org/index.php/projects/stories/C37)
The Center for Digital Storytelling (CDS) is an international non-profit training, project development, and research organization dedicated to assisting people in using digital media to tell meaningful stories from their lives. Our focus is on building partnering with partnerships community, educational, and business institutions to develop large-scale initiatives in health, social services, education, historic and cultural preservation, community development, human rights, and environmental justice arenas, using methods and principles adapted from our original Digital Storytelling Workshop. PDF How To (http://www.storycenter.org/cookbook.pdf)
San Francisco-based literacy arts nonprofit has helped over 10,000 students to share their life stories, connect with the arts, and improve their literacy skills. Through the power of storytelling, Streetside Stories values and cultivates young people’s voices, fostering educational equity and building community, literacy and arts skills.
Free eBook by Silvia Rosenthal Tolisano. 120-page guide to using digital storytelling tools in your classroom. The guide offers clear directions for using tools like Audacity, Google Maps, Photo Story, VoiceThread, and other digital media creation tools. Silvia's directions are aided by clearly annotated screenshots of each digital storytelling tool. The book also provides a good explanation of digital storytelling in general and the benefits of using digital storytelling in your classroom. Click the File Download link to get the free ebook version.
"Our mission is to provide Americans of all backgrounds and beliefs with the opportunity to record, share, and preserve the stories of our lives. Since 2003, over 50,000 people have shared life stories with family and friends through StoryCorps. Each conversation is recorded on a free CD to share, and is preserved at the Library of Congress. StoryCorps is one of the largest oral history projects of its kind, and millions listen to our broadcasts on public radio and the web."
Evergreen School District 2010 Student Film Festival! Here you will find all the information you need to participate in a chance at bringing home an "Oscar" for your school.
Create movies online. Add images and text. Select the music track. Add a title. Animoto renders the movie. Share the movies to email contacts, embed them in blogs/Websites, and export to social media. Good for general concepts. Can't fine tune text, voice, and images to go together perfectly.
A VoiceThread is a collaborative, multimedia slide show that holds images, documents, and videos and allows people to navigate pages and leave comments in 5 ways - using voice (with a mic or telephone), text, audio file, or video (via a webcam). Share a VoiceThread with friends, students, and colleagues for them to record comments too.
Create slideshows using your digital photos. Single click touch-up, crop, or rotate. It's that easy! Special effects, soundtracks, and your own voice narration. Personalize with titles and captions. Share your stories. Small file sizes make it easy to send photo stories in an e-mail. Watch them on your TV, a computer, or a Windows Mobile–based portable device.
Flip Video hands-on session from East Bay Computer Using Educators (EBCUE) Cool Tools VI hands on conference. Session agenda and links to valuable resources.
Audacity® is free, open source software for recording and editing sounds. It is available for Mac OS X, Microsoft Windows, GNU/Linux, and other operating systems.
Write a phrase or sentence. Phrasr finds images to match it. You can edit the images. It plays as a slideshow.
Add speech bubbles on pictures. Save pictures as JPEGs to your computer. Free no registration.
Tool to create comic strips using photos from flickr.com. Begin searching images and add bubbles to them.
Online Educational Comic Generator for Kids of All Ages. Add faces or other pre-existing objects to comic strip panels. Write words in talk and thought balloons.
Pixton for Fun is the free version. Click and drag elements to create comic strips. Requires free registration.
Create your own comic strips with just a few clicks, drag, and drops. Requires free registration.
From University of Houston: "Digital Storytelling is the practice of using computer-based tools to tell stories. As with traditional storytelling, most digital stories focus on a specific topic and contain a particular point of view. However, as the name implies, digital stories usually contain some mixture of computer-based images, text, recorded audio narration, video clips and/or music. "
Make your own Domo Animations and Slideshows with GoAnimate's tools. Share and rate animations.
Create interactive digital stories out of video, audio, pictures, text, maps, timelines, links, and other media.
20 items | 21 visits
Resources for digital storytelling
Updated on Dec 21, 12
Created on Mar 10, 10
Category: Schools & Education
URL: