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= = == = = = = =What is Digital Storytelling?=

"////Digital Storytelling takes the ancient art of oral storytelling and engages a//// palette of technical tools to weave personal tales using images, graphics, music and sound mixed together with the author's own story voice. Digital storytelling is an emerging art form of personal, heartful expression that enables individuals and communities to reclaim their personal cultures while exploring their artistic creativity. While the heart and power of the digital story is shaping a personal digital story about self, family, ideas, or experiences, the technology tools also invite writers and artists to think and invent new types of communication outside the realm of traditional linear narratives." [|Bernajean Porter] in the content of your page here.

=Why Digital Stories and Storytelling?= "Digital Storytelling uses digital media to create media-rich stories to tell, to share, and to preserve. Digital stories derive their power through weaving images, music, narrative and voice together, thereby giving deep dimension and vivid color to characters, situations, and insights. The digital environment provides a unique opportunity for stories to be manipulated, combined and connected to other stories in an interactive, and transformative process that empowers the author and invests the notion of storytelling with new meaning. Using the internet, and other emerging forms of distribution, these stories provide a catalyst for creating communities of common concern on a global scale." [|Digital Storytelling Association]

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Educational Use for Digital Storytelling
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Digital Storytelling Resources

 * Photo Story 3 - Free tool for machines with Windows OS
 * [|Photo Story 3 tutorial]
 * Photo Story 3 help videos
 * More Photo Story 3 guides from David Jakes
 * Digital Storytelling Tools - A guide to various tools used to create digital stories
 * [|Center for Digital Storytelling]- Their purpose is a project development, and research organization dedicated to assisting people in using digital media to tell meaningful stories from their lives.One of their best resources is their
 * Digital Storytelling - An extensive list of resources
 * Digital Storytelling Cookbook
 * Digital Storytelling Tips and Resources
 * Digital Stortelling Resources - a wide list of resources
 * [|Educational Uses of Digital Storytelling] - An expansive resource from the Colledge of Education at the University of Houston
 * Educators as Storytellers - An ISTE Webinar with Bernajean Porter
 * Digital Quill - A wiki of digital storytelling resources from Jon Orech
 * [|DigiTales] - Resources from Bernajean Porter
 * [|Primary Access] - A suite of free online tools that allows students and teachers to use primary source documents to complete meaningful and compelling learning activities with digital movies, storyboards, rebus stories and other online tools.
 * Digital Documentaries - A professional development program that helps teachers inspire their students to write and learn about local history and their community. Students research, direct, and produce their own video examining local issues or historical events while meeting social studies and language arts requirements for grades 5-12.
 * Jason Ohler's Site - Resources for educators on art, storytelling, and technology
 * Digital Storytelling Tools - From David Jakes
 * [|ISTE Webinar]- Educators as Storykeepers
 * [|Digital Storytelling] - A PB Works wiki of resources; great links to image resources
 * [|iMovie Tutorial]
 * [[file:DS process.pdf|Digital Storytelling Process Guide]]
 * The 7 Elements of Digital Storytelling
 * 64 sites for digital storytelling tools and information

**Examples**
 * The Digital Storytelling Initiative - A woman's story about her father's stand against facism in Nazi Germany. Click [|here]to access other showcase stories.
 * Telling Their Stories - Stories of interned Japanese Americans, Holocaust Survivors and WWII camp liberators created by high school students
 * Meet Me at the Corner - social studies examples
 * Face to Face - Face to Face explores what it means to be an American with the face of the enemy. These are real stories of fear, anger, hatred, loyalty and trust.
 * American Slave Narratives
 * DAVA - Downton Aura Visual Arts; Stories, Dreams, and Memories
 * My Hero - Read one of the thousands of stories people have written or submit a digital story of the hero in your life
 * Ordinary Heroes Everywhere
 * [|Digital Stories] from Niles Township HIgh School
 * Student Examples from Springfield, IL - Categorized by content area and grade level
 * iCan - A variety of student digital stories from Marco Torres, a former high school teacher in California. His students' work is much more professional as they use digital footage.
 * [|2 Minutes to Make a Difference 2010 Final Cut] - The Videos are attempts to promote citizenship in students and to make them more socially active in causes that are important to them.
 * Columbus Creates 21st Century Explorers - More in line with a news broadcast, 5th grade students share their knowledge and understandings of Columbus.
 * Talk with Media: Visual Literacy and Digital Storytelling - a variety of student created digital stories
 * Jose the Bear travels to Egypt - A collaborative VoiceThread across grade levels and content areas

Other Tools
There are many other tools that can be used to create alternate forms of digital stories. You will find information, including tutorials and examples, on many of these tools on the Multipurpose, Multimedia page of this wiki.
 * VoiceThread
 * Go!Animate
 * Xtranormal
 * Voki
 * Stupeflix
 * Blabberize
 * Mixbook for Educators
 * Animoto for Education- Free account available
 * FileLab
 * Storybird
 * Photo Peach
 * Google Story Builder
 * Meograph for Education
 * 5 Card Flickr Stories
 * Moovly
 * PowToon

Resources - Copyright & Assessment
You will find resources to help construct your digital story on the Additional Resources page of this wiki.
 * [|Creative Commons] - Search for copyright-free images to use in publicly posted projects.
 * [|Flickrcc]- Search for images requiring only attribution or those for commercial purposes.
 * [|Freeplay Music] - This is the place for royalty-free music. You can select music files based on a style or feel. Music pieces come in various sized files.
 * 4shared - Another source for royalty-free music
 * Creative Commons Music - List of websites for free music downloads
 * DigiTales - [|Evaluating Projects] and [|Scoring Guides]
 * Meg Ormiston's rubrics for digitalstorytelling. Mix and match which elements work well for you.
 * My Diigo account links for digitalstorytelling resources
 * Photo Story 3 help videos

Common Craft
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