How to: The Nitty Gritty

 

 

Overviews of the Why and How of Digital Storytelling

 

The Center for Digital Storyteling

 

 The hub of an international network of digital storytellers, the center offers excellent resources on storytelling techniques, on community action projects around the world, and on training opportunities.

 

Stories for Change

 A meeting place for those using digital storytelling in community settings as an avenue of social change.  Excellent examples, resources, discussion forums.

 

Memory's Voices: A Guide to Digital Storytelling

A site created by the Center for Digital Storytelling for the California Culturenet

 

 

Software:

 

 For Macs:

 

Final Cut Express or I Movie

Photoshop Elements

Sound Studio

Audacity

Garage Band

 

For PCs:

 

Adobe Premier

Photo shop Elements

Audacity

 

For less complex projects

 

For Macs:

 

IPhoto

Garage Band

 

For PCs:

Photostory 3

 

Fifty Web-based Photo/Audio editing storytelling tools

 

http://cogdogroo.wikispaces.com/StoryTools

 

 

Photo and Video Banks

 

Istockphoto

 

Morgue File

 

Flickr Creative Commons

 

 

"Creative Commons" Licensed Music (available for use in tech projects )

 

Podsafe Music

 

Royalty Free Music

 

Circuit Six

 

Garage Band Artist Community

 

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Comprehensive Resource Portals

 

 

Art, Storytelling, Technology, and Education,  from consultant Jason Ohler, is a compendium of publications, "how to" guides, teaching strategies, and software suggestions.

 

 

 

 

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Handbooks

 

 

Simmons College Digital Storytelling Handbook

DSbooklet_contents.pdf