This is a presentation I created to communicate simple steps for creating a digital story. It also links to a googlesite I created that has more resources. I created this for a group of undergraduate students at UMaine who were going on a community service project and were assigned a digital storytelling project to communicate their experience working and living on a remote island in Maine for a week.

1. Digital Storytelling
https://sites.google.com/site/digitalstorytellingforlife

2. A digital story is
A 4-10 minute digital video clip
● First person narrative (begin with a written script ~400
words)
● Told in your own voice (record your script)
● Illustrated (by still and moving images)
● With a music track to add emotional tone

3. How do we create digital stories
● Reflect
● Collect
○ Audio
○ Images
○ Video

4. Elements of a Digital Story
● Purpose
○ Narrative
○ Convey content
● Point of view
○ Voice
○ Emotional journey
○ Language
● Content

5. Economy of Story Detail
● Keep It Simple
● Focus on essential elements
● Leave out unnecessary details
● Show, don’t tell

6. Process to create digital stories
1. Write a script (Reflection)
2. Record your script
3. Gather still and moving images
4. Combine audio and visual content
5. Present or publish your finished project

7. Tools
Script Word processing (Google Docs, Word…)
Record Audio Audacity, GarageBand
Find/Create Images Original Content is best
Creative Commons licensed material on Flikr,
Google Images
Combine a/v content iMovie, YouTube video editor, MovieMaker

8. http://digitalstorytelling.coe.uh.edu/view_story.cfm?vid=411&categoryid=8&d_title=P
ersonal%20Reflection

9. What’s Your Story?