Submit a text version of the full draft of your story.
This version should have a clear narrative arc--an inciting incident/scene, a question, challenge, dilemma or issue and then some scenes that explore the dilemma and allow the character(s) to grow/change.
Post full text of story describing any adaptation to your format.
Getting the stories out there
We'll be exploring some ways to publish digital stories in an online, magazine-like format.
Our goal is to create a Dept Story/poetry/video/audio magazine to showcase student work on any form of storytelling.
Exploring what is already out there
We'll begin with a look at local, and national Literary Magazines.
Deforestation
Google Earth can tell the story of Earth's green spaces by charting
deforestation patterns.
New map Shows the Effects of a Decade of Deforestation
A Boy's 27-yr Journey Home
"In 1986, a five-year-old boy named Saroo Munshi Khan accidentally fell asleep on a stationary train in India. He woke …
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We'll explore place-based storytelling with Google Maps & Google Earth. You can find some approaches using the tools at
PBS National Parks model.
Since those tools were created before the new Google Maps release, you can visit the Google Earth resources for
creating Customs Maps, and
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Use the
Center for Digital Storytelling online resource for inspiration and models for story from, format and technique.
Get inspired with these
TED stories.
Project Survival Media, which trains young people in countries across the world to tell stories about local climate solutions using visual media like photography and video.
While visual media is no substitute for on-the-ground organizing, activists are increasingly using it in strategic ways: by documenting evidence of pollution and abuse of power, connecting once-isolated …
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Explore
place-based storytelling with tools from the
PBS National Parks model.
One vivid example using Google Earth for placed based stories is is war torn areas of the world. The Beirut and
Darfur examples are particularly striking, and show how New Media …
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Create a
prezi that outlines the Character Backstory for your main character. If you have multiple stories, you could choose one of the characters, or you could establish an overall narrative in which you choose a community, or place as a main character.
Find the
Character Backstory Prezi I created for class and either use the …
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Select your format for your project and try an experiment with that format. If you will be using iBooks Author, for example, you might try your scene in that format, add images, experiment with the design, themes and layout. If you are doing a video, then you should have a storyboard in your "Story Scene" …
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Write and post one scene from your story. You may use the in-class material and build on that to create a complete scene, or you may pick a different part of your story. Consider the
Digital Storytelling Cookbook. advice of using a photograph (or visual memory) as a cue for this. Don’t start …
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Begin Reading the
Digital Storytelling Cookbook. Due dates for reading are below:
- Jan 28 Chapter 1 & 2
- Feb 4 Chapter 3 & 4
- Feb 11 Chapters 5-7 Digital Tools: Skim for basic concepts, the details are outdated because of software upgrades, but the … Continue Reading ››
View 64+ episodes of everyday amazing stories with
The StoryTrek, with Todd Hansen.
"Where are you Going, Where have you Been?"
How we imagine our futures depends on who we are and where we come from--the context that makes our selves, our families and our society. Society is made up of more than what we …
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Use the Center for Digital Storytelling online resource for inspiration and models for story from, format and technique.
In our lives there are moments, decisive moments, when the direction of our lives was pointed in a given direction, and because of the events of this moment, we are going in another direction. Poet Robert Frost shared this concept simply as “The …
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Welcome to Digital Narrative 2: NMD 443. View
Syllabus for an intro to the course, and see the first steps in each of the featured posts. You will begin by viewing sample digital stories from the
Center for Digital Storytelling. Then you …
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