Digital Storytelling Resources

Digital Storytelling at UW-Madison

Visit the ENGAGE website at http://engage.doit.wisc.edu/dma/index.html to see more about digital stories and other digital media assignments at Madison.  For additional information and resources, check out the links below.

Websites

Books

  • Digital Storytelling Cookbook from Storycenter.org
  • Tell Me a Story: Narrative and Intelligence, Roger C. Schank (Schank is well known for his research in narratology, technology and learning)
  • Digital Storytelling: Capturing Lives, Creating Community, Joe Lambert (Joe is the Director for Center of Digital Storytelling in Berkeley, California. His book gives useful guidelines to digital storytelling creation.)
  • Strategies for Nursing Leadership, Harriet R. Feldman, (Chapter 3, An approach to Teaching Leadership Values)
  • The Story Factor: Inspiration, Influence, and Persuasion Through the Art of Storytelling, Annette Simmons
  • Fostering Community through Digital Storytelling: A Guide for Academic Libraries, Anne M. Fields and Karen R. Diaz
  • Interactive Storytelling: Techniques for 21st Century Fiction, Andrew Glassner
  • Learning through Storytelling in Higher Education: Using Reflection and Experience to Improve Learning, Janic McDrury and Maxine Alterio
  • Digital Storytelling in the Classroom: New Media Pathways to Literacy, Learning, and Creativity, Jason B. Ohler
  • Narrative and the Practice of Adult Education, Marsha Rossiter and M. Carolyn Clark (Marsha Rossiter is a Wisconsin author from UW-Oshkosh)

Other Types of Digital Stories
Digital Stories can be different than the type presented in our workshops. They can be just about any form of expression, expressed through digital technology. Here are a few other examples to get your imagination going:

  • "Shifting Perspectives", an example using Prezi   
  • Saving Donna's Brain, a Vuvox example
  • AnyCerda uses historic maps and documents, architecture, photographs, interviews and resident-created "show-and-tell" videos to tell the story of place. (No English just Catalan)
  • Berlin Wall Twitter is a collaborative open collection of very short "stories"
  • The Greenbush Tour is a mobile Augmented Reality, place-based experience that tells a story of a Madison neighborhood.
  • ARIS Project - a tool for you to make mobile games, tours and interactive stories.

Of course, the internet is replete with other examples and forms of what could be called Digital Stories: blogs, comics, YouTube videos, etc. Pretty much anything that gives personal insight into another can be considered a story. You can probably think of your own examples.
Digital Storytelling Tools
Some tools available to aid in the digital storytelling process.

  • Tell My Story is an iPhone app that allows you to create the types of stories we do at our workshops — all on your iPhone.
  • Microsoft's Photo Story 3 is a Windows application that allows simple story telling.
  • Animoto is an online application that takes your music, video clips and photos and creates a unique video from them.
  • ARIS Project - a tool for you to make mobile games, tours and interactive stories.

Open Source and Copyright Info
Please respect all copyright issues. If you are not familiar with using other people's material, here is the UW Madison resource: Copyright Basics.
Images

Music (for soundtracks)
Please follow the directions on these sites for using and crediting the music.
These audio resources were selected from a larger pool by search capabilities, quanity of songs, ease of navigation, resourcefulness, use policies, user base, and available additional resources.
A reminder that free downloadable music does not mean that you have the license to use it in any manner you choose. Please check the copyright policies or license type for each selection.

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