Resources
- Radio: an Illustrated Guide
- Center for Digital Storytelling: http://storycenter.org/whatis.html
- StoryCorps: http://www.storycorps.net
- StoryCorps Example at NPR: http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=4516989
- http://www.mcli.dist.maricopa.edu/forum/spr04/dstory.html (more resources on this page)
- Excellent audio advice and stories: www.Transom.org
- Savvy Technologist's digital storytelling podcast: http://technosavvy.org/?p=383
- http://www.storycenter.org/memvoice/pages/cookbook.html
- Image, Video, Audio Clip Sources
- FreePlay Music
- Magnatune
- Internet Archive
- OurMedia
- ClipShack
- YouTube
- Student from Baruch College tells his Digital Story with PowerPoint
Examples
- Audio example from NPR: Kevin Kling - story about his dad's "sayings": http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=3908786
- http://ihome.ust.hk/~ctnick/NickNoakes_DraftDV.mov
- http://www.mcli.dist.maricopa.edu/learnshops/digital/examples.php
- http://www.campusmoviefest.com/cgi-bin/WebObjects/IdeaFlow.woa/wa/showAMovie?movieID=978
- Tower Building Story: http://www.short-media.com/printcontent.php?print=r&id=301
- Columbia Spectator's Faces of Iraq: http://www.facesofiraq.com/
- http://michaelverdi.com/video/node102.mov and http://node101.org/community/index.php/Envisioning_Node_101
- http://www.pc.maricopa.edu/art/dstory/
- VidLits: Transforming the written word into digital stories: Craziest
- Sound Portraits
- One Red Paperclip
- Minnesota Stories
- Free Culture
Tools
- Movie (for stories involving a lot of video content)
- iMovie (Mac only for creation; best for short films)
- Windows Movie Maker (Win only for creation; best for short films)
- SlideShow (for stories primarily dealing with static images synced to audio narration)
- iMovie (Mac only for creation; best for slideshows requiring Ken Burns effect; can integrate video and audio)
- PowerPoint (Dual platform for creation; good for non-linear presentations; can integrate video, audio; limited animation
- SlideShowPro (Flash extension; need Flash 8; export/play to flv; good for audio and text narrated slideshows; possible to present multiple slideshows in elegant, integrated way; easily expanded/edited through XML)
- PhotoStory (Win only for creation; export to wmv; best for audio narrated slideshow; )
- Web Site (for stories primarily dealing with text narration with embedded images)
- Wakka Wiki (easy; students are already familiar with this; could be a portal for linking to other projects/resources)
- WordPress (can build static pages within WP; integrated with coppermine; students already familiar; work well with PodPress as a way to embed media resources)
- Contribute (fairly simple to build and link static pages; can be used to link to other projects/resources)
- Audio Story (for stories primarily told through audio narration)
- Audacity (free; audio recorder and editor; output to all standard audio formats, including MP3)
- Feed Story (for stories told in multiple formats, deliverd via RSS)
- WordPress category feed and all of the above
- Something Else?
Possible Components of the Assignment (THIS IS NOT OFFICIAL)
- What is the story you want to tell? Briefly.
- What are the content resources you think you can use for this story? Where are they now?
- What tool(s) do you think would be best for telling your story?
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