Digital storytelling resources

Interesting sites

Center for Digital Storytelling http://www.storycenter.org/

Center for Digital Storytelling YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/user/centerofthestory

University of Houston Educational Uses of Digital Storytelling http://digitalstorytelling.coe.uh.edu

Silence speaks digital stories: http://www.silencespeaks.org/case-studies.html

Sonke Gender Justice network (South Africa) http://www.genderjustice.org.za/view-featured/tools/digital-stories/view-featured-stories

Darcy Alexandra’s work with undocumented migrants in Ireland: http://www.darcyalexandra.com/practice/

Pip Hardy and Tony Somners’ patientvoices in the UK: http://www.patientvoices.org.uk/

Digital storytelling (DST ) at CPUT

Generic introduction to DST (students): http://prezi.com/zof4yyo-_i_k/introduction-to-digital-storytelling/

Introduction at train the trainer workshop (a bit longer)

Linda’s presentation on storyboarding:

http://prezi.com/tldi4i2dlmcg/storyboarding-environ-occupational-stud-may-2013/

Veronica’s presentation on Creative Commons:

http://opencontent.uct.ac.za/Health-Sciences/Public-Health-and-Family-Medicine/OER4Us

Other DST research and presentations: http://www.cput.ac.za/blogs/edutech/category/digital-stories/

CPUTstories YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/user/cputstories

Join our Facebook CPUTstories group: http://www.facebook.com/groups/2011cputstoriesteam/

Readings

Digital storytelling cookbook: http://www.storycenter.org/cookbook.html

Robin, B.R., 2005. The Educational Uses of Digital Storytelling. http://digitalliteracyintheclassroom.pbworks.com/f/Educ-Uses-DS.pdf

Long, B., 2011. Digital Storytelling and Meaning Making: Critical Reflection , Creativity and Technology in Pre-service Teacher Education. In Digital storytelling conference. pp. 1-27. http://lillehammer2011.files.wordpress.com/2010/10/bonnie-long-conference-paper.pdf

Kajder, S.B., 2004. Enter Here: Personal Narrative and Digital Storytelling. The English Journal, 93(3), pp.64-68. Available at: http://www.jstor.org/stable/pdfplus/4128811.pdf?acceptTC=true [Accessed October 10, 2010].

Barrett, H., 2006. Digital Stories in ePortfolios: Multiple Purposes and Tools. Available at: http://electronicportfolios.org/digistory/purposes.html [Accessed January 25, 2011].

Rolon-Dow, R., 2011. Race(ing) stories: digital storytelling as a tool for critical race scholarship. Race Ethnicity and Education, 14(2), pp.159-173. Available at: http://www.ingentaconnect.com/content/routledg/cree/2011/00000014/00000002/art00002 [Accessed April 15, 2011].

For more articles please contact me gachagod@cput.ac.za

Software used

Currently we are using 2 approaches to digital storytelling at CPUT: either recording the narration via Audacity and then creating the digital movie in MovieMaker (slightly more complicated but with better results) or using Photostory for Windows, which allows you to record within the software programme.

Approach 1: MovieMaker and Audacity

Windows MovieMaker to create and edit digital movies: XP or Live depending on Windows software on your laptop
For a YouTube video tutorial click here

Audacity and Lame encoder to record and edit audio

http://audacity.sourceforge.net/download/beta_windows

http://sourceforge.net/projects/lame/files/lame/3.99/

Approach 2: Photostory

http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=11132
for a YouTube tutorial click here

Other useful software

Artweaver for image editing

http://www.artweaver.de/download-en/

Real player to convert audio files

http://uk.real.com/realplayer

Royalty free images and sound

Article on 8 resources to find and edit digital images without being sued: http://www.teachthought.com/technology/8-resources-to-find-and-edit-digital-images-without-being-sued/

search.creativecommons.org is a search portal that allows you to search for media shared under the creative commons licence, will give you direct links to Google images, flickr, sound databases etc…

Images

www.flickr.com (under advanced search you can tick Creative Commons only)

http://www.123rf.com

http://www.compfight.com/

http://www.sxc.hu/

http://www.pics4learning.com/ Pics4Learning is a safe, free image library
for education. Teachers and students can use the copyright-friendly photos
and images for classrooms, multimedia projects, web sites, videos,
portfolios, or any other project in an educational setting.

Sound

www.opsound.org (for royalty free sound tracks)

http://www.jamendo.com/en/

Ipad apps for digital storytelling

http://mattbgomez.com/folder-full-of-storytelling-apps/

Some examples of stories developed at CPUT

2010 Education student project