This document summarizes Janet Bianchini's presentation on digital storytelling. It discusses how storytelling has changed with new technologies, providing examples of collaborative stories created on blogs and through live document editing. It also shares Janet's digital story about a village where everyone wears red, and lists resources and tools for digital storytelling discussed in the presentation.

1. Storytelling in the Digital Era 4th Virtual Round Table Janet Bianchini 26th March 2011

2. Stories told around the fire for entertainment Stories passed down from generation to generation, from family to family Stories as a way of passing on morals, eg Aesops fables Stories from the Bible read in church Stories from the wars eg The Aeneid

6. Collaborative writing via http://lifefeast.blogspot.com/2010/09/typewithme-live-text-document.html http://typewith.me /

7. http://annehodgson.de/2010/03/12/expanding-alice/

8. Alice was crying in the Wonderland Bayside Bar, lonely and confused, thoroughly through with waiting for her horse, The Gelding Formerly Known As Prince, named after his mother, Black Princess. It was dark rum she ordered, and she thought to herself: “Enough!” “On the rocks” by the Heebee Geebees was playing on the ancient juke box and she felt like dancing. The music played softly, the lights were low, the eyes of the musicians shone like stars and he appeared, large as life – tall, dark and devilishly almost impossibly handsome – “what about it”? he said … She looked toward the jukebox, then smiled wryly. “Just my style,” Alice replied. – Of course, “it” was the murdered corpse of the Mad Hatter. Left by Janet Bianchini on March 13th, 2010

9. Collaborative improvised story from Bits'n'Bobs blog challenge September 2009 reproduced with kind permission :) Joe's eyes shifted uneasily at the sight of the object sliding towards him. He began to get a bit hot under the collar. He hadn't liked being summoned to this board meeting at such short notice and was feeling very uncomfortable. He avoided looking directly at the cold and heartless Vanessa. He pondered on how things could have turned out differently if he hadn't.... Vanessa stood up and began to talk. http://bitsnbobsshowntell.blogspot.com/2009/09/improv-challenge-day-seven.html

10. My C o l o u r Story EVO Digital Storytelling 2011

11. Flickr Image source: http://www.flickr.com/photos/24961345@N00/2131851672/

12. Image source: http://www.thevisorshop.com/acatalog/red_overallsrear.jpg

13. Once upon a time, there was a village in the middle of the countryside where everybody wore red clothes. The T-shirts were red , the trousers were red , the dresses were red , even the men's overalls were red . One day, Karl was in the barn in his workshop fixing the exhaust on his Aprilia Caponord motorbike when suddenly some oil from the engine spilled onto his beautiful red overalls. He gasped in horror as the thick black oil began to spread slowly but surely all over his favourite overalls. A red mist enveloped his entire being. To dampen his dark mood he decided to take a walk. It was fast approaching the hour of sunset. He gazed up into the spectacular sky and thought to himself, "Tomorrow is another day. It isn't the end of the world. I'll buy myself a brand new pair of red overalls!"

15. A new world of inspirational change.

16. Become an e-author using digital tools!

17. http://www.pimpampum.net/bookr/?id=22295

18. Janet's Abruzzo Edublog: An evolving Idiomatic Digital Story in progress

19. This is where the digital story began in a small and famous village in Abruzzo.....

20. An Idiomatic Story - Part 2: The Return of the Lost Soul As he approached the bar in the tiny Abruzzo village, he paused for a moment and savoured the smells of cooking wafting across the terracotta rooftops. He was so hungry he could eat a horse , or a chicken or two.

21. www.writecomics.com

28. List of Resources and Websites: http://evosessions.pbworks.com/w/page/33494090/Digital-Storytelling-2011 50+ Tools to Tell a Story by Alan Levine http://www.slideshare.net/profesorbaker/looking-for-catarina http://www.teachingvillage.org/2011/03/03/six-word-stories/ http://lifefeast.blogspot.com/2010/09/typewithme-live-text-document.html http://annehodgson.de/2010/03/12/expanding-alice/ http://bitsnbobsshowntell.blogspot.com/2009/09/improv-challenge-day-seven.html http://www.cybraryman.com/digitalstory.html http://www.freetech4teachers.com/2011/03/11-good-digital-storytelling-resources.html

30. Thank you for attending my presentation! Janet's Abruzzo Edublog http://civitaquana.blogspot.com @janetbianchini on Twitter