Digital Storytelling: The Basics We are our stories. We compress years of experience, thought, and emotion into a few compact narratives that we convey to others and tell to ourselves. - Daniel Pink A Whole New Mind http://ubiquitousthoughts.files.wordpress.com/2006/10/yahoo_timecapsule.jpg

With Caroline Cerveny, SSJ, D. Min. Your aspiring Digital Storyteller a Digital Immigrant . . . in the company of many other Digital Immigrants and Natives! a story about my digital footsteps! 1983!

1983 http://www.allsaintscg.org/images/Doors_of_Hyde_Park_v2%20(2).jpg

stories tell us about our life www.flickr.com/photos/40645538@N00/233228813

stories touch us www.flickr.com/photos/75056523@N00/1196494552

stories tell us something about someone else www.flickr.com/photos/99849138@N00/459432776

stories are both personal and universal www.flickr.com/photos/77436208@N00/2885783824

Matt's Story (Digital Storytelling Workshop at Youth UpRising) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zvCRHTQwXAk

Digital Storytelling - "Bring The Painted Dragons to Life by Putting Pupils in Their Eyes", a Chinese Proverb. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SvWzCuDCNNA

Students working on a Digital Storytelling project http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s_w5LC1OwKs

a developing Digital Storyteller my first digital video after some practice http://video.yahoo.com/watch/4838267/12905486

Questions 2006 CJC

Digital Storytelling Steps to create your story - Handout Available at http://katiechristo.pbworks.com/Digital+Storytelling/

Decide what your story is about. Is it about 2008 CJC

someone important to you?

a place in your life? 2008 CJC

an event in your life? 2008 CJC

who you are? 2008 CJC

what you do? 2008 CJC

2008 CJC a challenge you have overcome?

or is it about someone else and one of their stories? 2008 CJC

Write your story www.flickr.com/photos/12836528@N00/2787381665

iMovie Storyboard - Handout Available at http://katiechristo.pbworks.com/Digital+Storytelling/

Tips for Making Your Movie - Handout Available at http://katiechristo.pbworks.com/Digital+Storytelling/

Photo and Music Options THE TOOLS

Creative Commons http://search.creativecommons.org/

Images iStockPhoto http://www.istockphoto.com/ Stock Xchng http://www.sxc.hu/ Stock Vault http://www.stockvault.net/ Flickr http://flickr.com/

More Image Resources DigiTales Image Resources http://www.digitales.us/resources/image_sources.php

Record and Remix Audio 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. Download Audacity http://audacity.sourceforge.net/download/ Download the LAME MP3 encoder to export as an MP3 http://lame.buanzo.com.ar/ Audacity Tutorials and Installation Instructions http://tinyurl.com/5h2jmc

Compose Original Music http://www.jamstudio.com/

http://freeplaymusic.com/ Terms of Service If you are using Freeplay Music for: Personal Non-Commercial Use (Non-revenue generating). This excludes broadcast use of any kind, including, without limitation, web, blog, and podcast use; or Educational, Non-Commercial use (this is limited to student use on school grounds for in classroom projects- non broadcast) Then Freeplay Music's compositions and recordings may be used without a fee.

Music Resources Free Music Project http://freemusic.freeculture.org/ ccMixter http://ccmixter.org/ PodSafe Music Network http://music.podshow.com/ Podsafe Audio http://www.podsafeaudio.com/ Bravenet http://www.resources.bravenet.com/audio_clips

More Sound Resources DigiTales Music and Sound Resources http://www.digitales.us/resources/music_sound_sources.php

Software and Internet Applications THE TOOLS

Rubrics for Digital Stories http://www.digitales.us/evaluating/scoring_guide.php

Software iMovie http://tinyurl.com/5r5nsl Windows Movie Maker http://tinyurl.com/53yvx Microsoft PhotoStory http://tinyurl.com/48jvat

Gmail Trick for Student Registration If you dont want students to use their own e- mail addresses to register for the following Internet applications, try using the Gmail trick. G-Mail Trick http://snipurl.com/googletricks

Storytelling 2.0 Web 2.0 storytelling applications: Image Editors Video Editors Media Mashup and Creation Tools Media Publishing

Image Editing Picnik http://www.picnik.com/ Phixr http://www.phixr.com/ FotoFlexer http://fotoflexer.com/ Splashup http://www.splashup.com/

Avatar Options http://www.befunky.com/ http://www.mrpicassohead.com/ http://www.myoats.com/ http://www.picnik.com/ http://www.buildyourwildself.com/ http://www.dumpr.net/

Video Editing Jaycut http://jaycut.com/ Movie Masher http://www.moviemasher.com/

Image/Video Mashups Animoto http://education.animoto.com/ Voicethread http://voicethread.com/ OneTrueMedia http://www.onetruemedia.com/ Bookr http://www.pimpampum.net/bookr/ Scrapblog http://www.scrapblog.com/ BubbleShare http://www.bubbleshare.com/ SlideRoll http://www.slideroll.com/

Media Timelines xTimeline http://www.xtimeline.com/ OurStory http://www.ourstory.com/ Mnemograph http://mnemograph.com/ For more interactive media timelines visit: http://snipurl.com/timelines

Comic Strip Generators MakeBeliefsComix http://www.makebeliefscomix.com/ Kerpoof http://www.kerpoof.com/ Comiqs http://comiqs.com/ Toonlet http://toonlet.com/ Toondoo http://www.toondoo.com/

Publishing Stories Moonk http://www.moonk.com/ TeacherTube http://teachertube.com/ SchoolTube http://www.schooltube.com/ YouTube http://www.youtube.com/

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