Educational blog for teachers clearing technology credential requirements for the State of California.
posted by Sharon Eilts at 7:34 PM
It is an emerging term, one that arises from a grassroots movement that uses new digital tools to help ordinary people to tell their own 'true stories' in a compelling and emotionally-engaging form. These stories usually takes the form of a relatively short story (less than 8 minutes) and can involve interactivity.
The term can also be a broader journalistic reference to the variety of emergent new forms of digital narratives (web-based stories, interactive stories, hypertexts, and narrative computer games).
As an emerging area of creative work, the definition of digital storytelling is still the subject of much debate.
The broad definition has been used by innumerable artists and producers to link their practices with traditions of oral storytelling and often to delineate work from the highly produced commercial or conceptual projects by focusing on authorship and humanistic or emotionally provocative content. Some of the artists that have self-described as digital storytellers included Abbe Don, Brenda Laurel, Dana Atchley, and Pedro Meyer. Much pioneering work has been done by the Center for Digital Storytelling.
The short narrated films definition of digital storytelling relates back to the development of a production workshop by Dana Atchley at the American Film Institute in 1993 that was adapted and refined by Joe Lambert in the mid-1990's into a method of training promoted by the San Francisco Bay Area-based Center for Digital Storytelling.
Typically, digital stories are produced in intensive workshops. The product is a 2-5 minute film that combines a narrated piece of personal writing, photographic images and a musical soundtrack. The philosophy behind this type of digital storytelling is one of using technology to enable those without a technical background to produce works that tell a story using moving images and sound.
This model has been integrated into public broadcasting by the BBC in the UK, beginning with the Capture Wales project, led by Daniel Meadows. The following year a similar project was launched by the BBC in England called Telling Lives. The executive producer of BBC Telling Lives has since set up his own digital storytelling training and consultancy called digistories.
The Center for Digital Storytelling model has also been adopted in education, especially in the US, where some practitioners use it as a method of building engagement and multimedia literacy. For example, the Bay Area Video Coalition employs digital storytelling as a means of engaging and empowering at-risk youth.
Music
Audacity® is free, open source software for recording and editing sounds. It is available for Mac OS X, Microsoft Windows, GNU/Linux, and other operating systems.
http://audacity.sourceforge.net/
MyMusic Inc. http://www.mymusicinc.com/home.htm?affID=2452
All Cool Music http://www.allcoolmusic.com/home.htm?affID=0001310
Free Play Music http://www.freeplaymusic.com/
Free Music.com http://www.free-music.com/fma2000/
The Music Bakery http://www.musicbakery.com/
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Group Development
Big Dog's Leadership Page Special Project Teams
http://www.nwlink.com/~donclark/leader/leadtem2.html
tuckman forming storming norming performing model
http://www.businessballs.com/tuckmanformingstormingnormingperforming.htm
Business Relationships - Stages
http://www.smartfast.com/ea_business_relationships_stages.html
bruce w. tuckman - forming, storming norming and performing in groups
http://www.infed.org.uk/thinkers/tuckman.htm
What are the Stages of Group Development?
http://www.wilderdom.com/group/StagesGroupDevelopment.html
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