Digital storytelling

Programs for Creating Digital Storytelling 

• Sandy Jensen: Digital Storytelling: Power to the People
• Story Creator
• Five Ways to Use Book Creator 
• Student-Made E-Books: A Beautiful Ways to Demonstrate Learning 
• Memoov: Create animated videos up to five minutes 
• New York Times Learning Blog Activity: Analyzing and Designing Books Apps for Literature 
• Umajin: Tool for creating digital storytelling
• StoryChasers: Create documentaries about local stories
• Using VoiceThread for Digital Storytelling in Schools
• Jo Evans: Creating digital storytelling links
• Digital storytelling with Plurk microblog
• FluxTime Studio: Creating online animation
• Apple Learning Network: Creating Biographical Stories and Poems using Keynote 
• StoryMash: writing collaborative fiction
• StoryTop: Create narratives (for younger students)

 

Examples of Digital Storytelling 

• Teaching Students to be Multimedia Storytellers
• Video: Students remix Neil Gaimen's book, Neverwhere
• Laura Hammond and her students turn canonical poetry into iMovie masterpieces in this lesson plan
• Buturian, L. (2016). The changing story: Digital stories that participate in transforming teaching and learning. Free download book  
• Electric Literature: Videos: digital poetry/storytelling
• Electric Literature: Weekly digital short story
• University of Houston: Educational Uses of Digital Storytelling 
• Llano Grande Center: Digital Storytelling toolkit
• Amy and her students pair text and Flickr images to create iMovies
• Men with Pens: Digital storytelling
• University of Maryland, Baltimore County: Digital Storytelling
• Hilary McClelland: Digital storytelling methods 
• Chip Bruce: Digital storytelling in Irish schools 
• Shyam Sharm: A Digital Story
• Rodney Dixon: Spoken Word University
• Stories For Change: Boston-based project on digital storytelling 
• Awesome Stories: stories in history or current events for use in digital storytelling
• We Tell Stories: Six authors tell six stories

 

Digital Storytelling Resources and Teaching Methods

• Digital Storytelling      
• Choose Your Own Adventure Stories with Google Docs  
• Center for Digital Storytelling
• Silvia Tolisano: Digital Storytelling: What It Is and What It Isn't
• Video series: How New Media is Transforming Storytelling 
• Debbie Maxwell: Timeless Tales Project: Retelling classical stories 
• Game Writers: Foundations of Interactive Storytelling  Digital booktalks or trailers  
• Brian Lamb: 50 Ways to Tell a Story

 

Open-Access Digital Literature Projects 

• Walt Whitman Archive
• Rossetti Archive
• Emblem Project