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Welcome to the companion website for the 4th Edition of Digital Storytelling: Capturing Lives, Creating Community. Thank you for purchasing the book, and for your interest in the methods and practice of the Digital Storytelling model growing out of the Center for Digital Storytelling. Here you will find some additional resources including digital stories mentioned in the book, links to relevant resources and technologies, a storyboard template, and software tutorial guides.
This work evolves through dialogue and discussion with a larger community of practitioners, researchers, storytellers, and the general public. If you have questions or thoughts about this work, feel free to email me at joe (at) storycenter (dot) org.
Digital Stories
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Stories for Change: Elizabeth's Story
Please click the link below to watch the video.
http://storiesforchange.net/sites/default/files/81_ElizabethRoss.mov
Links
Principle Resource Sites
Center for Digital Storytelling
Berkeley/Denver/Phoenix/Washington D.C./Toronto
The online home of CDS. On our site you can access sample stories created in our workshops, case studies of projects we have partnered with other organizations, links to our other published resources, and information about our offices and workshops around the United States, Canada, and the world.
Collection of over 130 stories and growing from the CDS library of stories
Australia/Brazil/Canada/South Africa/Uganda/USA
Digital storytelling in support of healing and violence prevention.
An online meeting place for digital storytelling facilitators and advocates to share stories and curriculum ideas, and to start dialogs about storytelling.
Educational Uses of Digital Storytelling
Houston, Texas
An amalgamation of resources on the educational uses of digital storytelling.
Broadcast and Large-scale Institutions
Cardiff, Wales
Trained by the Center for Digital Storytelling, BBC in Wales/Cymru developed an ongoing program in digital storytelling that has continued to collect hundreds of stories from throughout the country of Wales.
Australian Center for the Moving Image
Melbourne, Australia
A public story showcase with a range of projects working with immigrant and indigenous communities, families facing Alzheimer's disease, and other chronic health issues.
São Paulo, Brazil
An oral history program that collects, archives, and exhibits every-day life stories by Brazilians.
CDS Case Studies in Health and Human Services
San Francisco, California
A national community mobilization and social marketing campaign to end the silence and shame surrounding HIV/AIDS in Asian and Pacific Islander (A&PI) communities organized by the Asian and Pacific Islander Wellness Center.
Johannesburg, South Africa
A workshop in Johannesburg for women and men from the Southern African Development Community countries who are especially vulnerable to HIV and AIDS.
Denver, Colorado, USA
A program to help enable viewers of Critical Condition, a documentary examining the “broken” US healthcare system, to create digital stories about their own healthcare experiences.
HopeLab: Stories by Young Cancer Survivors
San Francisco, California, USA
In collaboration with CDS, HopeLab brought young cancer survivors from across the U.S. to participate in a digital storytelling workshop in order to better understand the needs and interests of young people who have survived cancer.
“Learn From My Story”: Women Confront Fistula in Rural Uganda
Masaka, Uganda
A digital storytelling project for Ugandan women who have experiences with obstetric fistula.
Johannesburg/Cape Town, South Africa
A promotional project to help involve men in gender equality and HIV/AIDS prevention and care work.
Nurstory: Digital Stories from the Colorado University School of Nursing
Denver, Colorado, USA
Interdisciplinary stories from doctors, nurses, and patients at the Colorado University School of Nursing.
Preparation for Adulthood, Supervising for Success
New York, New York, USA
The Hunter College School of Social Work’s project to bring together current and former foster youth and social workers to share their experiences through digital storytelling.
California/Hawaii, USA
A project bringing current and former foster youth together to share stories of their lives in order to build leadership, and improve child welfare practice.
Cape Town/Johannesburg, South Africa
Established in 2006, Sonke has established a growing presence on the African continent and internationally working to create the change necessary for men, women, young people and children to enjoy equitable, healthy and happy relationships that contribute to the development of just and democratic societies.
CDS Case Studies in Environmental and Social Justice
Cows & Fish: Stories from Canada's Alberta Riparian Habitat Management Society
Alberta Province, Canada
A digital storytelling project that documents landowners' stories about their experiences in land management and their relationship with the land.
Oakland, California
Stories from a San Francisco Bay Area network of grassroots community activists, policy experts, researchers, and advocates working to address the impact of diesel emissions on public health.
Washington, DC, USA
Digital stories describing the challenges of forced migration, refugee camp life, and eventual resettlement in the U.S.
Launched in June 2006, Adobe Youth Voices is the Adobe Foundation's global signature philanthropy program designed to provide youth in underserved communities with the critical skills they need to become active and engaged members of their communities and the world at large. The Adobe Foundation invests nearly $8 million per year in the Adobe Youth Voices program, primarily through training, educational resources, and grants.
CDS Case Studies in K–12 and Higher Ed
Streetside Stories' Tech Tales
San Francisco, California, USA
A partnership between CDS and Streetside Stories that yielded a digital storytelling project involving 300 seventh-graders.
Somerville, Massachusetts
This project brings together youth from immigrant families to explore their cultural backgrounds and identify issues that interest or concern them in the community.
Launched in June 2006, Adobe Youth Voices is the Adobe Foundation's global signature philanthropy program designed to provide youth in underserved communities with the critical skills they need to become active and engaged members of their communities and the world at large. The Adobe Foundation invests nearly $8 million per year in the Adobe Youth Voices program, primarily through training, educational resources, and grants.
University of Maryland, Baltimore County
Baltimore, Maryland, USA
A digital storytelling training program for University of Maryland's faculty and staff.
Walt Jacob's Class at the University of Minnesota
Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA
Digital Storytelling at Ohio State University
Columbus, Ohio, USA
Digital Storytelling at the University of Wisconsin
Madison, Wisconsin
International Programs
Cambridge, England
UK-based digital storytelling project in healthcare.
European project to promote youth engagement in the process of Europeanization in the Southern Balkan countries of Boznia-Herzegovina, Albania, Montenegro, and Croatia.
More Organizations
Cowbird is an online community of storytellers. Their goal is to build a public library of human experience by experimenting with a new form of participatory journalism, allowing people from all over the world to collaborate in documenting the overarching "sagas" that affect our lives today.
StoryCorps is an independent nonprofit whose 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 40,000 interviews from nearly 80,000 participants. Each conversation is recorded on a free CD to share, and is preserved at the American Folklife Center at the Library of Congress. StoryCorps is one of the largest oral history projects of its kind, and millions listen to their weekly broadcasts on NPR's Morning Edition.
Working around the world, but most actively in developing countries, PhotoVoice's mission is to build skills within disadvantaged and marginalized communities using innovative participatory photography and digital storytelling methods so that they have the opportunity to represent themselves and create tools for advocacy and communications to achieve positive social change.
This American Life is a weekly public radio show broadcast on more than 500 stations to about 1.8 million listeners. It is produced by Chicago Public Media, distributed by Public Radio International, and has won all of the major broadcasting awards. It is also often the most popular podcast in the country, with around 700,000 people downloading each week.
The Moth is an acclaimed nonprofit organization dedicated to the art and craft of storytelling. It is a celebration of both the raconteur, who breathes fire into true tales of ordinary life, and the storytelling novice, who has lived through something extraordinary and yearns to share it. At the center of each performance is, of course, the story – and The Moth's directors work with each storyteller to find, shape and present it.
826 National is a nonprofit organization that provides strategic leadership, administration, and other resources to ensure the success of its network of eight writing and tutoring centers (Ann Arbor, Boston, Chicago, Los Angeles, New York, San Francisco, Seattle and Washington, DC ). 826 centers offer a variety of inventive programs that provide under-resourced students, ages 6-18, with opportunities to explore their creativity and improve their writing skills.
The NWP is a network of sites anchored at colleges and universities and serving teachers across disciplines and at all levels, early childhood through university.
IFTF is a 45-year-old independent, nonprofit research organization that helps all kinds of organizations make the futures they want. Each year they publish numerous projections and forecasts about prevailing trends in society and technology for diverse sectors including business, education, and health care.
Inspiration
Home of Dana's archive and background on his work in professional and artistic contexts.
The digital stories, photographs, and tutorials of photographer and storyteller Daniel Meadows.
Mexico City, Mexico
Pedro Meyer has created a quintessential photography site featuring fascinating work from around the world.
Resources
TechSoup [www.techsoup.org]
Nonprofit resource for digital media projects large and small, access to low-cost software for nonprofits.
Creative Commons [www.creativecommons.org]
Links to the numerous public source media, images in flickr, music from Jamendo, video from archive.org, etc.
Casting Words [www.castingwords.com]
An online transcription service.
Free Music Archive [http://freemusicarchive.org/]
Archive of public domain and Creative Commons licensed songs managed with a curatorial approach.
Downloadable resources
About the CDS
Since 1993, the Center for Digital Storytelling has been supporting people in sharing meaningful stories from their lives through group process and participatory media creation. Their programs support people in sharing and bearing witness to stories that lead to learning, action, and positive change.
Learn more about the CDS’s work at their site:www.storycenter.org
