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Think of the stories that most captured your attention over the past year. What made them so engaging? Often the most successful narratives combine text, video, music, sound, and images to tell a story and make a lasting impression. From today's most compelling documentary films to political messaging to reporting by citizen journalists, storytelling is evolving in this digital age. This course will give you the chance to get creative and practice the art of self-expression using much more than just a pen and paper.

Tutorial adapted from Llano Grande for Sony Movie Studio editing, great PC option.

Created http://frybreadqueen.googlepages.com/killtheindian%2Csavetheman this site for a IRLS573 Information Technologies in Libraries class from the University of Arizona.  It is for people new to making digital stories and provides great links to digital story resources.

Can't rewind or pause, it will just play through.

~Annie Smith

This is a screencast on how use Audacity, an open source audio software to edit narration and mix it with background music. The screencast is in a wmv format. Audacity is available for both Mac and Windows platform as a free download.

A phone interview with Alan Grieg, who coordinates digital storytelling workshops with Generation Five. Generation Five is a nonprofit organization with the goal of ending child sexual abuse within five generations.

This packet has a few audio handouts in it: one on various equipment options, one on getting copyright-free music from ccmixter, and one on Audacity.

I've been doing some work for nonprofits lately, who want to post stories, and the old standby freeplaymusic.com has licensing restrictions for nonprofits. Hence the ccmixter sheet.

The Audacity handout is bare bones.

Here's a checklist I created for the youth teachers at the South End Technology Center's Learn 2 Teach, Teach 2 Learn program, so they could track their progress working as a group to complete a digital story. This might be helpful for workshop participants to keep track of their progress or for anyone doing story production over multiple sessions.

BASIC STEPS:

If you want to be able to use workshop particpants' stories as examples in the future, you need to have them sign a release form.

This form is a full release form, with formal legal language. Depending on the type of project you are doing, you may need a release form that includes this degree of detail.

If you want to be able to use workshop particpants' stories as examples in the future, you need to have them sign a release form.

This form allows participants to choose from a list of release options. For example, a participant can choose to share his/her story as a teaching tool in workshop settings, but not to have it posted to the web or shown at conferences.

If you want to be able to use workshop particpants' stories as examples in the future, you need to have them sign a release form.

This is a release form we use at the Center for Digital Storytelling in our open workshops. It gives participants the option of sharing their story with us for teaching purposes, conferences, and promotional materials, as well as on our website. We print this form on our letterhead and pass it out at the end of the three-day workshop.

This form is a Word doc so you can edit it to fit your organization's needs.