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Resources for Digital Storytelling

Royalty-free Media

Sound Sources

Image Sources

www.incompetec.com
www.freesound.org
www.stonewashed.net/sfx.html
www.archive.org
www.a1freesoundeffects.com
www.freeplaymusic.com
www.parntersinsrhyme.com/pir/PIRsfx.shtml
wwww.pacdv.com
www.macloops.com/sounds
www.nmc.org/jampack

www.pics4learning.com
www.pdphoto.org/
www.archive.org
www.creativecommons.org
www.freefoto.com/index.jsp
www.flickr.com
www.morguefiles.com
www.commons.wikimedia.org
www.google.com image search
www.memory.loc.gov/ammem/index.html

General Resources

Introduction to Media Production ... - Google Books

Good examples of script formatting

Technology Solutions for Teaching and Research | Maximize your effectiveness through the use of technology

Digital storytelling at the University of Wisconsin, Madison.

Seminar.net International Journal of Media, Technology & Lifelong Learning

Special Issue on Digital Storytelling

What makes me

A great project sponsored by the Australia Council for the Arts

Quick fixes in Photoshop: A bluffer's guide | Photo Answers

"Need to learn Photoshop fast but can’t be bothered with boring books and long tedious explanations? You’ve come to the right place. Photoshop needn’t be a complicated and time-consuming place to spend your time. In this video we’ll teach you some really simple and fast ways to edit your pictures. Specifically, we’re going to look at correcting colour, boosting the contrast and cropping and straightening your image."

MemoryMiner - Digital Storytelling Software For Mac & Windows

MemoryMiner is the award-winning Digital Storytelling application for Mac and Windows used to discover the threads connecting peoples’ lives across time and place. It lets you zero in on the stories depicted in your photos by linking them to each other based on people, places and time. Using simple drag and drop actions, you specify who is in the picture, where the picture was taken and when.

International Day for Sharing Life Stories

Listen! - International Day for Sharing Life Stories will be held on May 16th 2008. The day will be an opportunity for people around the world to gather iin live and virtual environments to hear each other’s stories.

Story Circles

A viewer-submitted collection of digital stories hosted by the center for Digital Storytelling.

KQED Public Broadcasting - Digital Storytelling

KQED is a national leader in community created digital content. We hope to shepherd in a 21st aesthetic by providing training in story theory and the use of multimedia and digital technology.

Fifty StoryTools

A collection of 50 web-based storytelling tools put together by Alan Levine.

resources here