Resources

This page simply lists websites dedicated to digital narrative. Many of them are related to the more traditional form of digital storytelling - usually involving video, or images and overlaid audio.

 

A Million Penguins

A collaborative digital story writing project by Penguin.

Adobe
There are a number of useful resources on the Adobe site. Tips and lessons for digital photography, video, and multimedia presentations.

BBC guide to digital storytelling.
A simplely presented but quite instructional guide to a more linear, traditional form of digital storytelling.

Centre for Digital Storytelling (CDS)
A pioneer in this field with a community focus - the CDS has spawned many digital storytelling projects across the world and houses numerous resources for traditional digital storytelling.

Educational uses of Digital Storytelling
This website includes numerous links to traditional digital storytelling - a great resource if you're using video, or images and overlaid audio.

KQED

KQED digital storytelling initiative.

[Murmer]

A documentary oral history project that records stories and memories told about specific geographic locations.' [Murmur] participants record local histories often specific to a particular location, then make the stories available via a phone number to anyone that rings it. The number is posted on a marker at the site of the event.

Sound Portraits - Audio only stories. 'Sound Portraits's radio documentaries (broadcast on National Public Radio's All Things Considered and Weekend Edition) are audio profiles of men and women surviving in the margins.'

Stories for Change
Associated with the CDS, this site is an 'online meeting place for community digital storytelling.'

Blogs about teaching and narrative.

Moving at the speed of creativity is making the world a better place one conversation at a time.

New Media Literacies has a central goal of engaging educators and learners in today's participatory culture.

Teaching with Technology - The Savvy Technologist contains information that may be of interest to technology coordinators, technology integrationists, instructional media specialists, classroom teachers, and school administrators.

Weblogg-ed has discussions and reflections on the use of Weblogs, wikis, RSS, audiocasts and other Read/Write Web related technologies in the K-12 realm, technologies that are transforming classrooms around the world.

Grand Text Auto - about computer narrative, games, poetry, and art.

Download a 3 free handouts

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Contains handouts for '3 act structure', 'storyboarding' and 'considerations when building stories'.