Resources
DiSC (Digital Storytelling Circle) Singapore
– Click for information about DSA’s Support Group for Digital Storytellers
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Other digital storytelling sites
Australian Centre for the Moving Image (ACMI) – ACMI is internationally renowned for its award winning exhibition program, its position as the only cultural facility in the world with a dedicated games space, and its leadership role in self-generated content, particularly digital storytelling. The centre celebrates, champions and explores the moving image in all its forms – film, television, games, new media and art.
BBC Capture Wales – BBC’s award-winning Digital Storytelling project which came out of a partnership formed in 2001 between BBC Wales and Cardiff University.
BBC Telling Lives – Telling Lives was based on the Capture Wales project based at the BBC in Cardiff. The team in England was fully trained and mentored by the Welsh team in the winter of 2002/3.
Center for Digital Storytelling – Listen Deeply, Tell Stories… where Digital Storytelling began and took off.
Digitstories – UK – Barrie Stephenson set up the business after successfully pioneering digital storytelling for the BBC with a major television and internet project called Telling Lives. Since then he has been commissioned by many organisations to deliver workshops for their clients.
Festival of Digital Storytelling, Cymru - The fifth anniversary of the Digital Storytelling Festival promises to inspire, encourage and show the exciting possibilities of digital storytelling. DS5 will be held on 17 June 2011 at the Aberystwyth Arts Centre, Wales’ largest arts centre and recognised as a ‘national flagship for the arts’.
Jason Ohler – Great resources for educators by Jason Ohler, Author of Digital Storytelling in the Classroom – New Media Pathways to Literacy, Learning, and Creativity; Professor Emeritus, Educational Technology. University of Alaska
Stories for Change – is an online meeting place for community digital storytelling facilitators and advocates. Learn more about how we’re using this unique medium for social change and join the network.
StoryCorp – Our mission is to provide Americans of all backgrounds and beliefs with the opportunity to record, share, and preserve the stories of our lives. Since 2003, StoryCorps has collected and archived more than 30,000 interviews from more than 60,000 participants.
Storykeepers Wiki – Tools for Digital Storytelling.
University of Houston – The Educational Uses of Digital Storytelling
Wikipedia – Digital Storytelling information
Copyright, Copyleft, Creative Commons
Copyleft explained – Wikipedia
Creative Commons – Creative Commons helps you publish your work online while letting others know exactly what they can and can’t do with your work.
Free software
Windows Movie Maker – comes with PC Windows (for Windows XP)
Windows Photo Story – make video clips from your still photos. It offers more options on the pan and zoom than Movie Maker
Photoscape – Photoscape is a fun and easy photo editing software that enables you to fix and enhance photos.
GIMP – GNU Image Manipulation Program – photo retouching, image composition and image authoring
IrfanView – Graphic viewer and photo editing
Audacity – The Free, Cross-Platform Sound Editor
Want the old version back?
For Windows 7 users – the Windows Live Movie Maker is highly automated and stripped of many of the functions in the old Movie Maker. It allows little control when making your movie. The previous 2.6 Windows Movie Maker version is available for download and works on Windows 7. I want the old Movie Maker back!
Free images
Stock.XCHNG – the leading FREE stock photo site
Free music
Jamendo - open your ears – download and share their music. Free, legal and unlimited.
Bookmarking tools
Del.icio.us – Store and share your bookmarks online
Digg – Discover, select, share, and discus the news and videos that appeal to you.
Go2Web20 – Stay up to date with all the new & hot services that are born daily into the web.
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