RESOURCES
Digital Storytelling: Some Selected Online
Resources
Rising within the Visible Knowledge Project (VKP) is ample interest in
the topic of digital storytelling. Digital stories are multimedia presentations
which students construct to tell a personal story or narrate a history.
This month's Resources You Can Use highlights some of the resources
on digital storytelling which are available online.
We also feature some resources on topics, such as digital video, which
might be useful for faculty wishing to implement digital storytelling
in their classrooms.
Also available are examples of grading rubrics created by VKP participants
who are using digital storytelling in a variety of classroom settings.
Categories of Digital Stories Resources:
How to
Center for Digital Storytelling (CDS)
http://www.storycenter.org/
The Center for Digital Storytelling, loosely connected with the University
of California, Berkeley's School of Education, is a major site for the
formulation and dissemination of the digital storytelling idea (digital
storytelling is used much more widely than simply in education). The site
is an especially good one for exploring the various concepts involved
in digital storytelling as well as links to a variety of different kinds
of digital stories.
CDS Cookbook
http://www.storycenter.org/memvoice/pages/cookbook.html
The "Cookbook" is the publication used by the Center for Digital
Storytelling in their workshops. It is an excellent introduction to the
actual construction of an effective digital story, from storyboard to
final product.
How to create a simple digital story
http://www.webreview.com/1999/09_24/designers/
09_24_99_3.shtml
Despite being a little outdated, this article provides a good basic overview
of the process and technologies needed for creating a basic digital story.
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Links to other resources on digital stories
Digital Storytelling
http://tech-head.com/dstory.htm
Good list of links on digital story telling. The list includes links
to sample stories (from a wide range of storytellers and with many purposes),
to articles on digistal storytelling, hypertext and interactive fictions,
as well as resources and tools for constructing digital stories.
Is Digital Storytelling Art?
http://hotwired.lycos.com/synapse/braintennis/97/31/index0a.html
In this forum media theorists Janet Murray and Sven Birkerts debate the
promises and pitfalls of new media storytelling.
DV for Teachers
http://dvforteachers.manilasites.com/about
DV for Teachers: a site created by Tim Merrit of the Instructional Technology
Center at Georgia State U, "dedicated to helping educators with the
ins and outs of digital video, from Pre-K to PhD." The site is an
excellent resource on DV (digital video) which can be a useful technology
for digital storytelling.
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Sample stories
Digital Clubhouse
http://www.digiclub.org/
A nonprofit organization with public learning centers in Silicon Valley
and New York City, dedicated to developing innovative new ways of using
information technology to enrich K12 education and life long learning.
The Digital Clubhouse model is suggested for the ways digital storytelling
can enhance community or public history projects.
Digital Griot
http://www.digiclub.org/dg/index.html
Digital Griot seeks to combine the traditional of storytelling in African-American
communities with the possibilities of new digital technologies. Includs
some fine examples of digital storytelling.
WWII Memories
http://www.digiclubnyc.org/ww2/
A project of the Digital Clubhouse in New York City, this project uses
local students (junior high through college) to help with the gathering
and production of veteran's memories of service in World War II.
Digital Healing
http://www.digiclub.org/whp/
A project of the Clubhouse in California, dedicated to gathering stories
from breast cancer survivors.
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Sample grading rubrics
These three sample grading rubrics highlight emergent issues for the
project: the challenges and opportunities faculty face when assessing
student-created new media "products." Some central questions
are: What are the the ways in which new media draw attention to visual
and conceptual creativity in student work? How can faculty begin to assess
both "critical thinking" and "creativity."
The first
rubric is a grid for assessing the overall quality of the stroy
being told in a digital stroy and emphasizes such factors as "emotional
content," which tend toward the creativity side of the creative/critical
continuum.
The second
rubric is an assessment tool adapted from the National Standards
for U.S. History. This ruric guides faculty in assessing a digital story
by intellectual standards similar to those employed in the assessment
of a more traditional historical paper.
The third
rubric emphasizes visual literacy and seeks to provide a framework
for understanding the sophistication of a student's use of images in making
the argument of their story.
These resources were first
gathered by Tracey Weis for a Millersville University Digital Stories
Workshop. Michael Coventry wrote new descriptions for this story.
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