This document provides an introduction to storytelling practices that have emerged from Web 2.0 technologies and cultural forms. It discusses some key aspects of storytelling including roles of producers and consumers, and what constitutes story content. Examples are given of early Web 1.0 storytelling projects and how digital storytelling has evolved from educational projects to incorporate multiple platforms and commercial aspects. Caveats are provided that this framework may not apply to all projects.

1. Web 2.0 Storytelling: Introduction ELI Annual Conference January 28, 2008 Bryan Alexander, NITLE

2. What is it? An emergent set of storytelling practices, growing out of Web 2.0 technologies and cultural forms.

3. Caveats This framework is probably not your project Whole project versus piece versus principle

4. Who are people in this? Roles Producer Consumer Scholar Teacher Consultant Supporter Questions Why these platforms? How to discover and participate? How to support?

5. But wait, what's storytelling? “The last man on Earth sat alone in a room.”

6. But wait, what's storytelling? “The last man on Earth sat alone in a room. There was a knock on the door.” (Fredric Brown, “Knock”, 1948)

7. But wait, what's storytelling? Beginning, middle, end The Freytag triangle Delight and instruct

8. Put another way What are stories about? What is content? About someone important About an important event About what one does Center for Digital Storytelling, Digital Storytelling Cookbook. http:// www.storycenter.org/cookbook.html

9. Put another way What are stories about? What is content? Personal versus impersonal Creative fiction vs nonfiction composition Curricular vs campus vs personal vs etc. (storyteller, Ripton Vermont, 2008)

10. Web 1.0 storytelling What can we learn from it? Hypertext Multimedia Browser-focused Offline, analog content (textbooks) Evanescent

11. Web 1.0 storytelling Example: Dreaming Methods (2000ff) http:// www.dreamingmethods.com /

12. Example: “Ted’s Caving Journal” (circa 2001) (one copy, from http://www.angelfire.com/trek/caver/page1.html )

13. Features: Multilinear Multimedia Very Web Serial structure

14. Digital storytelling roots Digital Storytelling movement Digital Storytelling at Ukaiah, 2006

15. Digital storytelling roots Educational projects growing Community Curricula Support ( http://connect.educause.edu/Library/Abstract/StorytellingintheAgeofthe/42327 )

16. Digital storytelling Transmedia storytelling (Henry Jenkins) Multiple platforms Commercial Fan base…

17. Digital storytelling Franchise or brand Control across sites Diffuse boundaries

18. Digital storytelling roots Email chain letters, jokes Social Boundaries fuzzy Microcontent (Snopes.com)

19. Digital storytelling roots Virtual community facilitation (1980s on) http://www.unfiction.com/compendium/2006/11/10/undefining-arg/2/ Chaotic fiction, including ARGs

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