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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 basic release form used in the past at Center for Digital Storytelling open workshops. We print the release form on our letterhead and ask participants to sign it at the end of the workshop, if they are willing to give us permission to use their story in teaching and promotional activities.

This form is a Word Doc so you can fill in the blanks spaces with your organization's information.

Overall, try to make prompts as specific as possible, and not just tied to general themes.

Listing exercise:

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Digital Storytelling Cookbook

In this free download from the Center for Digital Storytelling, you'll find tips, recipes, and some humor to help you mine stories from your nonprofit's history and media archives.

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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

(Joe Lambert's presentation @ UMBC on 1/13/06) New developments in visual and digital media are changing what it means to be literate in the 21st century, but what happens to teaching and learning? What if we assigned students to create video documentaries instead of term papers? Could they do it?

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.

A collection of resources produced by the Bay Area Video Coalition for use in their Digital Storytelling Institute, a program for training community organizations in digital storytelling. Included are tip sheets on planning your digital story, how to prepare for a video shoot, what audio equipment to use and how to record audio in the field, different camera angles and movements, interview tips, a sample release form, and a glossary of terms for video production and script writing.

This is the first digital storytelling "textbook" originally created for students in the Center for Digital Storytelling's workshops and has been used throughout the years to help those new to digital storytelling understand the medium and begin the process of making their own digital story.

You can download the first five chapters of the cookbook:

1. Stories in Our Lives: Discusses the importance of stories in our lives and how to find the story you want to tell.

Taken from the YearUp Digital Storytelling Manual, this tutorial guides you through creating a digital story using Windows Movie Maker, a video editing software available for PCs. The tutorial explains how to set up the program, understand the interface, import video and audio files, edit images, and add transitions.