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This digital storytelling website is filled with every resource you can imagine. The website documents the research and success stories behind digital storytelling. It breaks the digital storytelling process into four steps, providing websites and program ideas to help you along. It helps you with grant writing, if you feel like you need additional resources to start digital storytelling in your classroom. What I especially appreciate, is the assortment of rubrics provided, so that you have a idea how to grade stories created by your students.

Rather than explaining how to create digital stories, this article gives tips to the classroom teacher, highlighting things to remember. These tips include the importance of trial and error, student accountability, and allowing students to push and lead you.

For a novice to digital storytelling, it takes time to weed out the good resources from the poor ones. This blog follows a virtual classroom teacher who teaches this specific technology. He lists his favorite storytelling technologies, even including resources that anyone could use while writing.

This video explains digital storytelling in a short, concise way. It defines the elements of a digital story and would be a fantastic tool to use when introducing the concept to students or teachers.

In this Youtube video, a teacher from Texas describes her journey through the digital storytelling process. She begins as a novice, who has to not only learn the skill herself, but teach it to her middle school students. She describes all of the benefits she sees with using it in her classroom.

In a brief handout form, the concept, as well as pros and cons of digital storytelling are defined. This handout could be a fantastic resource when explaining the concept to parents of students or in a college course.

In this article, the author follows three fourth grade students who struggle with writing. She documents the growth shown with these students, as well as other struggling writers. The author breaks the elements of story telling down. In addition, she also provides a paper story board, for which children can use to get the content of their story down. There are links provided to different tutorials, as well as sound, graphic, and music copyrights.