Resource Types: Curriculum

An adaption of Creative Narration's Spreading the Stories participants packet for youth, ages 10-18 year olds, for a two-day challenge to create digital stories about their community and put them on a Google Map, at the

Templates created by the Bay Area Video Coalition for use in their Digital Storytelling Institute. Use the blank storyboard to help you plan how to pair your images and words, the log sheet to log video and determine which clips to use, and the story outline as a tool to help you focus on what story to tell and how to tell it.

The Digital Storytelling handbook created by YearUp for use by their writing instructors. Focuses on teaching digital storytelling in a classroom setting. Includes an introduction to digital storytelling; list of terms and concepts; notes about technology needs; recommendations for sound recording equipment; software tutorials for Photoshop Elements, Audacity, and Windows Movie maker; tips for rendering your finished movie; and checklists and handouts for use in the classroom.

This is a guide of what to bring to a workshop in Spanish.

The final section of the Spreading the Stories trainer manual. Presents ideas for where and how to screen digital stories, discussion questions, a sample release form, facilitator evaluation, and a bibliography of additional resources.

Part 3 of the Spreading the Stories trainer manual, which focuses on publishing digital stories. Outlines how to screen stories at the workshop and the advantages and disadvantages of exporting the stories to video, CD, DVD, or the web.

The second section Spreading the Stories training manual, focusing on producing the digital stories. Outlines the steps for gathering and digitizing all story elements, provides vocabulary lists for techinical terms, describes file management, and outlines how to create a rough and final edit in the video editing software.

The first section of the Spreading the Stories training manual, which focuses on preparing for a workshop and also outlines the first steps in the storytelling process.

Includes tipsheets, equipment lists, the elements of storytelling, writing prompts, guidelines for the story circle, how to think in terms of multimedia production, and how to create a storyboard.

Also includes a bibliography of additional resources related to storytelling, community storytelling, and case studies.

Guidelines for creating a storyboard and a sample storyboard illustrating how to pair images and words. Provided by Bridges to Understanding, who say it's the best thing they've come up with for describing and outlining the storyboarding process.  The sample storyboard is taken from a digital story made by children in the Arctic Circle.

This document outlines roles that can be assigned to participants in a digital storytelling project. This resource comes from Bridges to Understanding, an organization that works mainly with large groups of people to create collaborative digital stories. Bridges says that when working in this way, they find it essential for everyone to have clearly defined roles.