Digital+Stories



Submit your examples of existing digital stories here. You do NOT have to create a digital story - provide an example of one. See page 190 in your text if you have questions as to digital stories. Please be sure that your submission contains your name, website title and address (hyperlinked), and at least a 100 word review of each website (see **submission example** **with questions).**

Veronica Vargas- Digital Storytelling []

Y.O.U.T.H is a website which depicts the characteristics of a publicly funded youth development program called the Y.O.U.T.H training project which works with current and former foster youth ages 16-24. Youth spend 3 ½ days working on a digital story and learn how to use and create a variety of computer programs along with other skills such as writing and recording a narration and including pictures and audio. This website would be helpful for teachers and students. Students can view examples of digital stories and develop ideas for creating their own and teachers can walk students step by step on how to create one. It is an empowering experience that enables students to express themselves in a creative way.

Lauren Crossett- DigiTales, The art of telling digital stories [|[[http://www.digitales.us/index.phpDigiTales|http://www.digitales.us/index.php]]] DigiTales is a website that would be very helpful to teachers,( mostly art) in learning how to approach making digital stories in their classrooms. It has many examples done by several different groups and ages of kids. It gives you suggestions on how to do certain things as well as why they are helpful. The one thing that I think is the most helpful though is all the different examples it gives you so you can get a great idea on how you want to approach your digital story. It also provides you a wide range of tools you can use and how to do it. I think this website does a good job on giving you examples, and showing you how to accomplish your vision.

Connie Bernert- The educational uses of Digital Story telling- University of Houston [] Digital Story telling is the practice of using computer-based tools to tell stories. This link to this site brings you to what I would call a great example of many short digital stories that would be helpful for teachers in their classrooms as well as students seeking information on their own. I was excited to see this site was actually from a well known University (The University of Houston). The examples included on this site range from anywhere Mathematics to Pop Culture. I found this site to be both educational and resourceful for all ages and grade levels.

Ashlee Preston - National Writing Project - Profiles in Practice Digital Storytelling with Teachers [] This link is a great way to help the teacher and the other students to find more about immigration. This website also helps the students to work with each other. The website gives a good video about how the teacher(s) explain to the students to explore, design, and share experience with the other students. In the video, they gave good tips on digital story telling. I think this is a good way for students in High School to start if they are having a hard time with writing. I also think it would be a fun project for all the students in any grade in High School.

Katie LaBorence- Digital Storytelling Resources for Educators [] This is a good website to look on to find digital stories. The website has many different links to chose from that lead to digital stories that the teacher can use in the classroom. All of the stories on this website are meant for classroom use, therefore, they are all educational. A lot of the stories have to deal with science and history. Other stories are based on sites around the world. Not only does this website include digital stories, it also has links that teach students to create their own digital story. Along with these, this website offers ideas for digital stories that teachers can create themselves.

= = Leah Close- Maricopa Center for Learning and Instruction [|www.mcli.dist.maricopa.edu] This web site is a great place to find digital stories. It has a collection of over twenty stories and options of what program to view them in. The stories are well worded, the voices are easy to understand, and the pictures good quality. They are a good example of what a digital story is and how you can make them effective. Many of them are events that really happened in the creator’s life. These stories can be great for teachers to show to students as examples of digital stories or to enhance a lesson. They also can give the teacher ideas to do their own stories for the classroom.

Jennifer Hess- Electronic Portfilios [|Electronic Protfilios] This site is basically a guide for those who wants to see or to create a digital story. They have links that would have a good digital storytelling. There are school links on this list, even PBS. It really would be very helpful for teachers to find a good digital story for the students. They also have links for where a teacher can go and get online tools to make a digital story. They have guides to how to make one, and to me, I thought it was cool. They also have digital stories from other countries, great for cultural views.

Bobby Gasca- Center for Digital Story Telling (CDS) [] CDS is the best Digital Story telling website that I found. It is an international non for profit organization that has been aimed at sharing digital stories for the past fifteen years. The Center for Digital Storytelling is even mentioned in our book for giving help with writing digital stories. CDS has a lot to offer. They offer Open Workshops in different places all over the US and Canada. They provide a customized program development for all users. CDS also offers public speaking and story screenings. There are a lot of different case studies on the website for your access. This was a reliable and useful website for teachers.

Aaron Porzelius University of Houston: The Educational Uses of Digital Storytelling [] “The Gettysburg Address” I really liked this website. I thought that it was very well organized and put together. The home page of this website is very easy to navigate; a teacher could easily find what they were looking for on it. The home page has a button in the top bar that says examples, when this button is clicked it shows the subject areas the website offers digital stories in. Once you have clicked on the subject area in with you interested in it pulls up a page with several different options of digital stories for you to choose form. I chose Social Studies as my subject area and The Gettysburg Address as my digital stories. The clip itself is only a few minutes long, but is powerful none the less. I feel that this clip would give a class, who is studying The Gettysburg Address, a better idea of just how important this speech was and is.

Christiana M. Strebe – teaching teachers [] The site digital Storytelling is a good site for teachers to go to. Especially if your one of those people who have a hard time with computers and getting things like web pages and blogs done on them. The site is very clear cut in explaining what digital storytelling is. The site will also show you how to plan a story, how to go about creating the story you have planned and how to deliver it. The site also gives lists of other sites as resources. It would also be a good reference site to give your students if you’re having them create their own digital stories.

Chiquita Richmond - Scott elementary stories http://www.dtc.scott.k12.ky.us/technology/digitalstorytelling/studentstories.html This website was for students of any interest and who enjoys a good story. A elementary school teacher name Scott has the idea to empower confidence and speaking practice with a child by letting them express their feeling about topics of the child interest. That is what most kids lack in school, which effects their grades and behavior. Most kids show through their words how they are feeling at the time and want others to see if for their point of view. The website give personal and historical view points that touches people in the hearts. The website is bright and attract the eyes.

Katia Petsas- Digital Story [] This is a website that can be used by teachers. This website shows what digital stories are and how they can be used in classrooms. It walks you through step by step as to how to use them or create one. It also gives you examples of digital stories on some of the main topics that are taught in certain subjects. Such as language arts and the book that many teachers assign in ninth grade English To Kill A Mockingbird. This site also allows you to create a digital story. It also has helpful links for you to look at.

Chelsea Gill- Center for Digital Story Telling [] The Center for Digital Story Telling is a website that has many different digital stories posted. It is a not for profit community arts organization. The digital stories are on various topics. They each have listed the creator, the date it was created and why the story is being told. Also, there is some information given about the creator of each digital story. This website helps those around the world to share stories from their own lives in an artistic way. There are different categories you can look through of digital stories including community, education, family, health, identity and place.

Casey Sandoval- Digital Stories []

Digital Stories I feel is an excellent way to get information across. Digital stories make it easier for the information to get across to those student who usually do not participate or the student who does not like to read. Digital stories make the student participate on several different levels. First by finding the topic then by finding information on that topic and then putting in pictures to go along with the story then finally narrating the story. In doing all of these steps the student has no choice but to learn.

Tiffany Wrinkle-Digital Stories [] This website is made by a particular school, Niles Township High School, and includes digital stories made by students, made by teachers, and also stories made by senior citizens from within the community. I could not get my computer to play any of the videos, but I wish I could have because they all looked so beautiful. I especially love that this high school gave senior citizens an opportunity to make their own videos and share them with a much younger generation. Their website is put together very nicely and also includes a page with a number of resources that show you more examples of stories and how to make your own story.

Jake Kelley-Digital Stories [] I felt that this was a neat web site that explained the proper way to use digital stories to help students learn. Throughout this site it explained how students will explore digital storytelling. A major area that was focused on was how the individual student’s stories will make connections to pictures that they have collected throughout their lifetimes or other visual representation they chosen. The stories in turn, will help the students to reflect on who they are as people and how they play a part in the world. By listening and watching other student stories they will learn that stories are the reflection of one’s experiences, mainly towards younger students. Throughout the site the students will develop an understanding of how stories teach lessons about life, so that when stories are told, they try to make a point about something. This is a neat cite that I feel would really help newer teachers and students understand digital storytelling, and its focus.