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What is Digital Storytelling?
According to Wikipedia, "Digital Storytelling" is an emerging term, one that arises from a [|grassroots] movement that uses new digital tools to help ordinary people tell their own 'true stories' in a compelling and emotionally engaging form. These stories usually take the form of a relatively short story (less than 8 minutes) and can involve interactivity. The term can also be a broader journalistic reference to the variety of emergent new forms of digital narratives (web-based stories, [|interactive] stories, hypertexts, and narrative [|computer] games). As an emerging area of creative work, the definition of digital storytelling is still the subject of much debate.

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More About Digital Storytelling

 * [|Center for Digital Storytelling]
 * Top Ten Reasons for Digital Storytelling
 * [|The Photography Channel: Cinematic Storytelling for the Modern Media]

Elements of digital storytelling
From [|Storycenter.org]
 * 1) Point of View
 * 2) Dramatic Question
 * 3) Emotional Content
 * 4) Your Voice
 * 5) Soundtrack
 * 6) Economy
 * 7) Pacing

Process of Digital Storytelling
In the classroom: In computer lab, classroom computer, or at home > Add images, text, audio clips, & video
 * 1) Write
 * 2) Revise
 * 3) [|Storyboard]
 * 4) [|http://www.schoolhousevideo.org/Pages/Storyboard.pdf]
 * 5) Storyboard generator: []
 * 6) [|http://www.everythingesl.net/downloads/storyboard.pdf]
 * 1) Obtain resources (images, audio clips, etc.)
 * 2) Create the digital story
 * 1) Share (in class or on the web)

Copyright Issues with Digital Media

 * [|My Diigo Links on Copyright]
 * [|My Diigo Links on Fair Use]
 * [|My Diigo Links on Creative Commons]

Connection to the standards

 * [|Educational Uses of Digital Storytelling]
 * [|Digital Storytelling for the Science Classroom]

Classroom Management & Integration

 * [|Digital Storytelling Lesson Plan]
 * [|A Practical Classroom Management Strategy]
 * [|Video Production for Students]
 * [|Digital Storytelling Across the Curriculum]

Evaluating Digital Stories

 * Sample rubrics []
 * Developing Assessments []

=Tools for Creating Digital Stories=
 * Video
 * [|iMovie]
 * iMovie 08
 * Apple Manual: [|iMovie '08 Getting Started]
 * Video Tutorials []
 * [|Exhaustive Tutorial for iMovie]
 * [|iMovie '08 Quick Shortcuts]
 * iMovie 09
 * Apple Tutorials [|http://www.apple.com/ilife/tutorials/#imovie]
 * Apple Support []
 * [|Windows Moviemaker]
 * Creating and Sharing Great Movies []
 * Audio
 * [|Garageband]
 * [|Audacity]
 * Images
 * [|iPhoto]
 * [|Picassa (Google)]

Overview of the Flip Video Camera


[|Flip Mino Cam 3rd Gen]
 * More About Your Flip**
 * []
 * Saving Files to Your Computer**
 * 1) Plug your Flip camera into a USB port
 * 2) Allow the software to download onto your Mac
 * 3) Select the videos you want to save, then choose "Save to Computer"



Sources for Images & Audio
> Standards-aligned packages of media that are content specific. Free resource from the Orange County Department of Education.
 * Bernie Dodge's Site []
 * [|Compfight] (Uses Flickr Creative Commons Images)
 * [|Image Appropriate Sites] (Google Custom Search Engine created by [|Ken Shelton])
 * Search Creative Commons []
 * KITZU.com []

Miscellaneous Resources
[| Great presentation by Hall Davidson on using the Flip Camera (Powerpoint)]