Digital+Story+Telling

=Definition= "Digital Storytelling takes the ancient art of oral storytelling and engages a palette of technical tools to weave personal tales using images, graphics, music and sound mixed together with the author's own story voice. Digital storytelling is an emerging art form of personal, heartful expression that enables individuals and communities to reclaim their personal cultures while exploring their artistic creativity. While the heart and power of the digital story is shaping a personal digital story about self, family, ideas, or experiences, the technology tools also invite writers and artists to think and invent new types of communication outside the realm of traditional linear narratives." [|Bernajean Porter]

=Why Digital Stories and Storytelling?= "Digital Storytelling uses digital media to create media-rich stories to tell, to share, and to preserve. Digital stories derive their power through weaving images, music, narrative and voice together, thereby giving deep dimension and vivid color to characters, situations, and insights. The digital environment provides a unique opportunity for stories to be manipulated, combined and connected to other stories in an interactive, and transformative process that empowers the author and invests the notion of storytelling with new meaning. Using the internet, and other emerging forms of distribution, these stories provide a catalyst for creating communities of common concern on a global scale." [|Digital Storytelling Association]

=Tools=
 * 50+ Storytelling Tools from CogDogBlog
 * [|Voicethread.com]
 * [|Marc Coffman's Beginner's Guide to Photo Story]

=Instructional / Tutorial sites=
 * [|The Seven Elements of Digital Storytelling]
 * [|More on the Elements]
 * [|A digital story about digital storytelling]
 * [|PowerPoint Introduction to DS]
 * [|Center for Digital Storytelling Examples]
 * [|Digitales]

=Examples=
 * [|Ordinary Heroes Everywhere]
 * [|A Trip to the Moon]
 * [| Student examples from Georgetown, Kentucky]
 * [|Educational Uses of Digital Storytelling]
 * [|Student Examples from Springfield, IL] - Categorized by content area and grade lev