Digital Storytelling Links

LaGuardia Resources

Elizabeth Riker, Erika Heppner, Liz Iannotti, and Delwar Sayeed
“LaGuardia Digital Storytelling”
Developed by some of LaGuardia’s pioneers in digital storytelling. Includes lessons and handouts (e.g., how to print pictures, using Quicktime Pro for digital stories, storyboarding, student release form), samples of digital stories, and a list of significant online and print resources.

LaGuardia Center for Teaching and Learning
“Resources”
Links to many helpful guides (e.g., copyright and fair use resources, photo editing, quick guide to scanning, using sound forge, video editing using Windows Movie Maker).

Elizabeth Iannotti
“ESL Course Websites”
Collects four semesters of student digital stories. Includes course outlines, assignments, and links to class handouts and important websites.

Elizabeth Iannotti
“How to Make Crab Soup: Digital Storytelling Projects for ESL Students”
In Transit PDF article on an early experience using digital storytelling.

Erika Heppner
“Homepage”
Collects group and individual stories over several semesters, mostly audio in the style of the NPR Radio Diary Project.

Erika Heppner
“Audio Web Project”
From the Designed for Learning Sampler, reflections on an innovative 10-week project in “Oral Communication for the Non-Native Speaker.”

Elizabeth Riker
“Digital Stories Project”
From the Designed for Learning Sampler, a description of how beginning ESL students become very engaged and learn about technology along with language when they are asked to create digital stories.

Visible Knowledge Project
“Digital Storytelling: Some Selected Online Resources”
Headquartered at Georgetown University and counting LaGuardia among its core partners, the Visible Knowledge Project offers links to sites that explain how to create digital stories, provide sample stories, and offer sample grading rubrics. Additional resources can be found at: http://crossroads.georgetown.edu/vkp/newsletter/0902/resources.htm#links

Other Major Resources

Bernard R. Robin (University of Houston)
“Educational Uses of Digital Storytelling”
An excellent site. Site is divided into: introduction (includes Center for Digital Storytelling’s seven elements of digital stories), goals and objectives, getting started (includes an extensive tutorial on using MS Photo Story 3 software), examples, tools (includes a list of public domain websites for images and sounds), evaluation (with sample rubrics), resources (includes favorite articles, descriptions of digital storytelling, discussions of elements, successful classroom uses, educational theory, media sources, and other sites).

Center for Digital Storytelling
“Resources”
Beyond offering workshops and other services, the Center has resources on its website: the first five chapters of the Digital Storytelling Cookbook and Travelling Companion, The Digital Diner (a series of interviews with early practitioners), These Images From These Pictures (the Canadian Film Centre’s “Easy Guide to Storytelling from the Images We Collect in Our Lives”), articles on digital storytelling.

Hilary McLellan (Tech Head Stories)
“Digital Storytelling”
A large site. Includes: key digital storytelling web sites; educational programs; books, articles & research; tools and resources; digital stories; story archives; dramatic storytelling in electronic games; interactive story environments; memorial journals and story archives; interactive and hypertextual fiction; corporate storytelling; digital photojournals; personal journals online; travel journals; historic journals; story webs; health stories and journals; educational journals/roleplaying; teenagers’ journals/stories; educational projects; community projects; online comics; animation; story resources online; tools for digital storytelling; online storytelling tests.

Helen C. Barrett
“Digital Storytelling”
A mega-site with FAQs and links to digital storytelling in education, digital family stories, international digital storytelling, and online tools for digital storytelling.

Bernajean Porter
“Digitales: The Art of Telling Digital Stories”
A site with some interesting material. Includes: 7 story-making steps, a large gallery of examples, MAC and Windows software toolkits and online tutroials, information on copyrights, a discussion of documentaries and docudramas, sources of images/music/sound.