This document discusses hands-on web storytelling. It provides tips and examples of how to effectively tell stories using digital technologies and online media. Some of the key elements discussed include using the shapes of stories, grabbing audience attention with movies, communicating a message clearly, and leaving some details for the audience to imagine. Examples are given of digital storytelling tools and techniques across different media like video, audio, and images. The overall message is how to craft compelling stories and resonate with audiences online.

1. Hands on with Web Storytelling
Alan Levine • cogdogblog.com
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3. “telling stories
with digital
technologies.”
newdigitalstorytelling.net

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5. Improv
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6. http://pechaflickr.cogdogblog.com/

7. Communicating
Something important to share
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8. “One of the best
ways to
understand
something is to
create a story
around it”
Ruben Puentedura www.hippasus.com/rrpweblog

9. What
Works?
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10. Movies Grab Our Attention

11. Communicate & Grab Attention?

12. Shape of Stories
standard formula for screenplay = three act
structure, aka Freytag Pyramid

13. Kurt
Vonnegout on
the Shapes of
Stories
http://youtu.be/oP3c1h8v2ZQ
Paul Zak: Empathy,
Neurochemistry,
and the Dramatic
Arc
http://youtu.be/DHeqQAKHh3M

15. http://www.amazon.com/Dont-Be-Such-Scientist-Substance/dp/1597265632

16. "When it's a simple as two things:
arouse and fulfill. You need to first
arouse your audience and then get
them interested in what you have
to say; then you need to fulfill their
expectations"

17. Nancy Duarte Analyzes Effective Speeches
Comparing what is (the status quo) with what could be,
eventually conveying to the audience the idea of “the new
bliss.”
www.duarte.com/books/resonate/sparkline-overview/

18. http://blog.mrmeyer.com/?p=10285

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21. http://threeacts.mrmeyer.com/
http://blog.mrmeyer.com/?p=10387

22. http://www.youtube.com/minutephysics

23. Troy Library Book Burning
Party
youtu.be/AoT13m8-Kxo

24. http://www.storyofstuff.org

25. http://www.phildub.com/

26. How Business Storytelling Set a
Project Back on Track
http://youtu.be/xBsLeobkm2A

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31. youtu.be/eMp-Fl-sXrU

32. 50ways.wikispaces.com/50Dominoes

34. 50ways.wikispaces.com/StoryIdeas
bit.ly/cindy-ppt

35. "that willing suspension
of disbelief for the
moment which
constitutes poetic faith"
Samuel Taylor Coleridge

36. youtu.be/IFe9wiDfb0E

37. The Hook
opening question,
provocative statement

38. Lost Flash Drive - Remixed then
Returned
youtu.be/IG1ZkW_u_Bw

39. Partial Revelation

40. There's this danger of becoming too precise and
too revealing- it's more powerful to hold
something back than to show the whole
picture. The reason is that when you show the
whole picture there is no space left for the
viewer to come into it. But when you leave
something out, the viewer will fill that empty
space with experience from their own life.
They can end up resonating on a more deeper
level with the thing when you give them that
space to come in.
Jonathan Harris
http://www.greenplum.com/community/data-scientist-
summit-2011

41. BBC Five Shot
Method
• closeup on hands
• closeup on face
• wide shot
• over the shoulder
• unusual/side shot
http://www.slideshare.net/fuzheado/teaching-visual-
storytelling-the-five-shot-method-and-beyond

42. www.youtube.com/watch?v=finF04ecMk4

43. www.thisamericanlife.org/about/make-radio

45. 50ways.wikispaces.com/StoryMedia

46. compfight.com

47. images.google.com/advanced_image_search

48. 50ways.wikispaces.com/StoryTools

49. 50ways.wikispaces.com/StoryTools

50. 50ways.wikispaces.com/OneTrueMedia

51. 50ways.wikispaces.com/OneTrueMedia

52. 50ways.wikispaces.com/Tools+By+Media

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