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"Included on these pages is information pertaining to research that supports digital stories in the educational setting, how to find grants for your story project, what kind of technology is required for a digital story program, how to evaluate your digital story program, and how to publicize your final projects to bring attention to your students, teachers, and school. This website will also assist school library media specialists in selecting the best digital storytelling websites and articles to develop the best digital storytelling program their library media center can offer."

Creative ideas with digital storytelling

Digital storytelling is one way for students and teachers to share their knowledge. This page includes links to support the use of digital storytelling for both teaching and learning. If you find a link that is not working, please let me know the title and I will fix it.And, if you have another great digital storytelling site to share, let me know as well!

A support page for the presentation Digital Storytelling

Helping keep the digital world civil . . . This blog post lays it all out: the rationale for teaching digital citizenship; how to start teaching it in elementary grades, and some follow up ideas for middle and high school. It's never too late to start working with students on digital citizenship, though! :-)

Digital storytelling, the practice of combining narrative with digital content, is gaining more ground in the educational field. Many schools and educational cent...

Digital storytelling, the practice of combining narrative with digital content, is gaining more ground in the educational field. Many schools and educational cent...

A special issue of "Library Technology Reports" from 2009 focusing on digital storytelling. Storytelling in Context -- Storytelling in the Context of Modern Library Technology -- How Digital Storytelling Builds 21st Century Skills -- Digital Storytelling in Different Library Setting -- Software for Digital Storytelling -- Resources.

Cloud based wizard for creating digital stories. Features script creation, voice recording, image loading etc. Free from the University of Virginia.

Digital Storyteller is a web-based tool that offers teachers and students frictionless access to digital images and materials that enable them to construct compelling personal narratives. Digital Storyteller was developed as an initiative of Primary Access. You can enter this site use guest login without registration. 

The introduction of the uses of digital storytelling in Education.

The Goals of this Website The primary goal of the Educational Uses of Digital Storytelling website is to serve as a useful resource for educators and students who are interested in how digital storytelling can be integrated into a variety of educational activities.

The Goals of this Website The primary goal of the Educational Uses of Digital Storytelling website is to serve as a useful resource for educators and students who are interested in how digital storytelling can be integrated into a variety of educational activities.

Good Digital Storytelling Resources

Digital Storytelling Resources Digital Storytelling with iMovie (softcover text) by Mark Standley & Skip Via-Digital Storytelling (PDF) by Mark Standley -Digital Storytelling Overview -Educational Uses of Digital Storytelling -Digital Storytelling Finds Its Place in the Classroom

"From engaging, standards-aligned rich media to interactive digital textbooks, our world-class content takes students beyond the classroom. Extensive professional development opportunities and a passionate educator network support teachers in transforming the classroom experience. Measure results and accelerate student achievement with digital curriculum that engages today's students."

Discovery Education has terrific resources that is linked to the current textbook that your county may be using for it's curriculum. User friendly and the United streaming is also helpful when planning lessons with the library of video segments. 

Problems Worth Solving Discovery Education accelerates school districts' digital transition through comprehensive standards-based content, professional development, formative assessment, and community engagement proven to positively impact student achievement. A digital textbook series, built from scratch for today's learners and current standards, engages students with dynamic, multimodal content and an inquiry approach.

Digital Storytelling In Education

Great info one of the things I like to do with my digital story telling is to try and make it somewhat interactive. I accomplish by allowing the user to have a choice in which way the story will go.

A discussion of the history of digital storytelling and how it is being used educationally is presented in this article. The theoretical framework, technological pedagogical content knowledge (TPCK), is described, along with a discussion of how this model might be used with digital storytelling.

The elements of digital storytelling. This site is introducing the elements of digital storytelling, include: media, action, relationship, context, and communication. 

In the Academe, technology has to be studied as one of the essential modes of being human. We have to guide our students to be digitally wise and to attain digital wisdom. There is a real multiplication of the dimensions of the human being, when Singularity is more and more near. We deal with a whole set of different identities [plural (?), multiple (?), alternative (?), concurrent (?), divergent (?), virtualising (?)

A great resource for teachers, parents and students via Shelly Terrell @ Ed Tech Crew on Diigo. Check out "Clean-up Your Digital Footprint" on the right sidebar, and "Facebook for Educators and Community Leaders" handbook in the blog section.

Video recording of a big picture, well-executed presentation on digital storytelling by digital humanist Dr. Bryan Alexander given at Case Western Reserve University.

I thought this article provided an interesting perspective about evaluating the use of certain digital tools based  on the type of instructional approach a teacher planned to use. The use of polyphonic teaching lends itself to the use of digital tools. 

Here's a good article by Kelli Marshall that talks about the importance of building your own digital identity, because she explains that if you don't make an effort to do it yourself, someone else will do it for you. The article provides some good pointers on things we can do to take control of solidifying our digital presence. A must read!

Digital Librarian is a great source for electronic texts and primary source documents. This site is a must for any teacher. All content is free.

University of Houston: A storyboard is a written or graphical representation of the all of the elements that will be included in a digital story. The storyboard is usually created before actual work on creating the digital story begins and a written description and graphical depiction of the elements of the story, such as images, text, narration, music, transitions, etc. are added to the storyboard. The elements of the story are arranged in the storyboard in the chronological order in which they will appear in the story and this allows the developer to organize and re-arrange the content for maximum effect.