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Taken from the Spreading the Stories training manual, this tipsheet is meant to help guide your organization in assessing goals, skills, and needs for the workshop. Beyond recruiting participants and finding an appropriate location, there's still more prep to be done! This tip sheet can help your organize your thoughts about the workshop goals and how to achieve them.

Taken from the Spreading the Stories training manual, a one-page equipment list for a digital storytelling workshop. Outlines the hardware, software, and other equipment necessary for teaching a digital storytelling workshop. Use as a guideline when planning your workshop and finding/creating an appropriate lab to work in.

Taken from the Spreading the Stories training manual, a one-page tipsheet for the first stage of workshop planning. Includes how to prepare participants, making sure the work space is appropriate, and a timeline of important planning milestones.

Taken from the Spreading the Stories training manual, this is a four-page guide outlining a sample agenda for a three-day digital storytelling workshop. It lists what activities will take place when and how much time should be alloted to complete them. Designed to help in workshop planning.

The training manual used at the Spreading the Stories New England Digital Storytelling Capacity Building Institute. This comprehensive training manual for facilitators covers all aspects of the digital storytelling process. Chapters include:

--Preparation

--Background

--Introduction to Story Development

--Thinking Multimedia-ly

--Gathering Your Media

An annotated bibliography of digital storytelling resources, compiled by Lisa Dush. Includes articles reviewing the digital storytelling process, case studies, academic articles, and technical guides. Featured topics: Founders Voices, Community Digital Storytelling, Digital Storytelling with Youth & in the Classroom, New Media & Education, Narrative Theory, and the Digital Storytelling Process.

A short guide to Photoshop Elements, a digital image manipulation program. Shows how to crop images and do basic fixes to lighting and color. Also illustrates how to copy and paste from one image to another to create a collage effect.

One approach to file management, aka organizing the materials you plan to use in your digital story. Shows an example of using a system of folders to sort materials. Also includes guidelines for resizing images and how to find copyright-free photos, music, and sound effects.

An introduction to creating a digital story in Final Cut Express, a video editing program. The tutorial covers the basics of building a story in Final Cut Express: importing media; arranging clips on the timeline; working with multiple tracks of video and sound; and adding titles, motion, and special effects.

NOTE: Final Cut Express is only available for Macintosh computers, so this tutorial is written for Mac users.