Emerging Technologies 92406

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Emerging Technologies9/24/06
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Digital Storytelling
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Digital Storytelling

• The Digital Storytelling Association defines
  Digital Storytelling as the modern expression of
  the ancient art of storytelling.
• Throughout history, storytelling has been used to
  share knowledge, wisdom, and values.
• Telling a story digitally means merging a short
  narrative, with corresponding audio, and various
  types of visual media, including photos, artwork,
  letters, and digital video.
• http//en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Instructional_Technol
  ogy/Digital_Storytelling
• http//www.storycenter.org/whatis.html

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Capture Wales

• Capture Wales a BBC project to share the
  richness of life in Wales through stories made by
  the people of Wales. Ongoing monthly public
  workshops are held around Wales to help citizens
  create their own digital stories.
• http//www.bbc.co.uk/wales/capturewales/

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Amys Choice

• True story of a 15-year-old girl who left home to
  meet in person with a man she first met online.
  It presents a powerful use of voice and media to
  warn other teenagers of a lesson learned You
  never know who that person (online) is and what
  he is capable of doing. I was lucky.
• http//www.netsmartz.org/resources/reallife.htmre
  alamy
• http//www.netsmartz.org/

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Telling Lives

• Is a Non-Profit project with the BBC inviting
  teenagers, World War II veterans, and ordinary
  people from England to tell their stories.
• http//www.bbc.co.uk/tellinglives/

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Kinds of Personal Stories

• Stories About Someone Important
• Character stories
• Memorial stories
• Stories about an Event in My Life
• Adventure or travel stories
• Accomplishment Stories
• Stories About a Place in My Life
• Stories About What I do
• Other Personal Stories
• Recovery Stories
• Love Stories
• Discovery Stories

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Stories for Non-Profits

• Stories about the organization
• Stories about how the efforts of the organization
  effects people
• Donor stories
• Community stories
• Stories about organization projects
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Digital Storytelling

• According to Joe Lambert in his Digital
  Storytelling Cookbook and Traveling Companion
  document, a good digital story must contain seven
  elements. http//www.storycenter.org/memvoice/page
  s/cookbook.html
• Point of View Who is the narrator and why is
  he/she talking to us?
• Dramatic Question Desire, Action Realization
• Emotional Content What are the emotions
  associated with your narrative?
• The Gift of your Voice What does your narrator
  sound like?
• The Power of the Soundtrack What music sets the
  mood for your story?
• Economy Keep it short and succinct.
• Pacing The rhythm of the story helps set the
  tone.

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Digital Storytelling - Process

• Developing idea, theme, message, voice, etc.
• Scripting
• Storyboarding
• Digitizing Story Elements
• Scanning Images
• Editing images with Photoshop
• Digitizing Video
• Editing Video
• Recording Voiceovers
• Capturing Music and Soundtracks
• Assembling Story Sequence
• Output

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Digital Storytelling

• Creative Narrations - http//www.creativenarration
  s.net/site/index.html
• Arizona Adult Education Digital Storytelling
  Institute http//www.az-aall.org/AALL/DigitalSt
  ories/digital20index.htm
• Gathering of Digital Storytellers 2006
  http//communitydigitalstorytellers.blogspot.com
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• Case Studies - http//www.storycenter.org/casestud
  ies.html

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Digital Storytelling

• Article The New Community Anthology Digital
  Storytelling as a Community Development Strategy
  http//www.creativenarrations.net/digital.pdfs
  earch22digital20storytelling20in20non20profi
  ts22
• Article Digital Tools Easier to Grasp
  http//www.ojr.org/ojr/lasica/1034121182.php
• DigiTales - http//www.digitales.us/index.php
• NonProfits by design Storytelling and the Brand
  A Thousand Wordsand Loads of Pictures -
  http//foundationcenter.org/pnd/npodesign/index.jh
  tmljsessionid3EMPFNWQRWYEDTQRSI4CGW15AAAACI2F
• The Elements of Digital Storytelling -
  http//www.inms.umn.edu/Elements/index.php

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Digital Storytelling Tools

• Software Readers
• Quicktime (QT) - http//www.apple.com/quicktime/
• Windows Media Player (WMV) - http//www.microsoft.
  com/windows/windowsmedia/default.mspx
• Real Audio - http//www.real.com/
• Windows Movie Maker - http//www.microsoft.com/win
  dowsxp/using/moviemaker/default.mspx
• Adobe Premiere - http//www.adobe.com/products/pre
  miere/
• Windows Photo Story 3 software -
  http//www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/using/digitalph
  otography/photostory/default.mspx
• Apple iMovie - http//www.apple.com/ilife/imovie/
  
• Apple Final Cut Studio - http//www.apple.com/fina
  lcutstudio/finalcutpro/
• Free music clips - http//www.freeplaymusic.com/
• http//www.tech-head.com/dstory.htm

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Digital Storytelling

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