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Resources for Digital Storytelling
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General Resources
MemoryMiner - Digital Storytelling Software For Mac & Windows
MemoryMiner is the award-winning Digital Storytelling application for Mac and Windows used to discover the threads connecting peoples’ lives across time and place. It lets you zero in on the stories depicted in your photos by linking them to each other based on people, places and time. Using simple drag and drop actions, you specify who is in the picture, where the picture was taken and when.
Story Circles
A viewer-submitted collection of digital stories hosted by the center for Digital Storytelling.
KQED Public Broadcasting - Digital Storytelling
KQED is a national leader in community created digital content. We hope to shepherd in a 21st aesthetic by providing training in story theory and the use of multimedia and digital technology.
International Day for Sharing Life Stories
Listen! - International Day for Sharing Life Stories will be held on May 16th 2008. The day will be an opportunity for people around the world to gather iin live and virtual environments to hear each other’s stories.
Fifty StoryTools
A collection of 50 web-based storytelling tools put together by Alan Levine.
7 Things You Should Know About Digital Storytelling | EDUCAUSE CONNECT
The "7 Things You Should Know About..." series from the EDUCAUSE Learning Initiative (ELI) provides concise information on emerging learning practices and technologies.
The Digital Clubhouse Network
A non-profit organization dedicated to "using the power of networked multimedia to build better communities."
Storytelling in the Age of the Internet | EDUCAUSE CONNECT
This case study of digital storytelling includes examples, sample assignments, assessment strategies/rubrics, lessons learned, and strategies for awareness building and support.
Photobus
This site highlights the current work of Daniel Meadows, the creator of the BBC Capture Wales project.
Incorporating Digital Storytelling into Teaching and Learning
New developments in visual and digital media are changing what it means to be literate in the 21st century, but what happens to teaching and learning? Joe Lambert from the Center for Digital Story Telling speaks to this at UMBC in January 2006.
Tech Head Stories
A great collection of digital storytelling sites collected by Hilary McLellen.
BBC - Wales - Capture Wales
Sponsored by the BBC, Capture Wales has for several years collected digital stories in Wales for television broadcast. The full collection of stories, numbering in the hundreds, is available online.
Center for Digital Storytelling
The Center for Digital Storytelling is a California-based arts organization rooted in the art of personal storytelling. We assist young people and adults in using the tools of digital media to craft, record, share, and value the stories.
Stories for Change
A new website developed by MassIMPACT, a community organization in the Boston area. The site was created to support the community of digital storytelling facilitators and contains rich resources to assist those working in the field.
Educational Uses of Digital Storytelling
A look at evaluating digital stories in an educational context. From the University of Houston.
UMBC WORKSHOP GUIDES
CDS Guides
Quick Guides from the Center for Digital Storytelling's "Train the Trainers" workshop