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" The ancient tradition of storytelling meets the digital age. When students create a movie or interactive slideshow to tell their story, learning becomes personal. With digital storytelling, students can: * Improve their writing. * Show creativity. * Have a voice. Digital storytelling projects lend themselves well to portfolio assessment."

"Key Digital Storytelling Web Sites" A comprehensive list of resources available to digital storytellers...

WIKI: Digital storytelling provides students with the opportunity to showcase their creative talents --- and it allows you to teach information literacy skills, reading, writing, and a whole host of subject-related skills in the process. Want to get started?"

"http://www.degvideo.com Digital Expressions quick reminder guide on what ingredients go into a digital story. A digital story a personal multimedia presentation is told from a first person perspective directly to its target audience. Often created for personal expression, healing and growth, a digital story can also express a need for change, community activism and serve as the 1 on 1 link bridging the gap between businesses and their customers. "

"Digital storytelling is a great idea, but where do you start? Mechelle De Craene outlines some practical strategies to enable you and your students to get the most out of this exciting medium."

"WEBSITE: http://www.teachertube.com The Seven Elements of Digital Storytelling set to music words and images."

"This was created for Stanford's Teacher Education Program (STEP), specifically for the STEP Conference in June of 2009. Feel free to check out our related wiki at digitale.pbworks.com for more information on digital storytelling. This video was created by Amy Cox, Morgan Watson, Lindsey Quinlisk, and Yong Kim."

"The topics that are used in Digital Storytelling range from personal tales to the recounting of historical events, from exploring life in one's own community to the search for life in other corners of the universe, and literally, everything in between. "

"Stories for Change is an online meeting place for community digital storytelling facilitators and advocates. Learn more about how we're using this unique medium for social change and join the network."

PDF Download: "We have helped over 10,000 people mine stories from their lives and personal media archives. Our cookbook shares our experience, some recipes and some humour to help you get started with your own storytelling experience."

"Welcome! This is a storytelling guide for a project to have you write a little story from some picture or a small group of pictures you already own. "

Check out this Slideshare presentation.... Very cool!

"There may be times when you creating digital media projects that you will want to record basic narration, edit audio to adjust the volume, remove unwanted sounds, fade audio in or out, etc. In addition, you may want to mix different audio tracks together, such as a recorded narration with background music. Programs such as Photo Story have very basic audio recording capabilities, so you may want to use a digital audio editing program, such as Audacity, Goldwave, GarageBand, or one of many other similar options."

"When I arrived at ISB last year, one of the first major projects I started with two of our wonderful grade 5 teachers was student blogging (um, and did I mention that we started blogging at the same time as participating in Chris Craft's Life 'Round Here digital storytelling project?). I had come from a middle school position where every student in the school (grades six - eight) had their own individual student blog and was ready to continue that experience here."

"These sites contain material that is generally free to use, uncopyrighted, whose copyright has expired, or is uncopyrightable. The last includes resources from US government agencies, educational organizations and companies that provide materials for students and teachers."

"These sites contain material that is generally free to use, uncopyrighted, whose copyright has expired, or is uncopyrightable. The last includes resources from US government agencies, educational organizations and companies that provide materials for students and teachers."

A comprehensive collection of links!!

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"Bernajean's DigiTales Book Bernajean's enchanting book shares the history, craft and detailed steps to become a Digitales StoryKeeper - Learn the artful mixing of narrative voiceovers, sound, images, memorabilia, music and special effects into an enduring personal digital story. "

PDF template for creating a digital story storyboard