December 2006
other people's stories
Every story on OPS is a story a contributor heard from someone else. These stories have been overheard and misheard, told and re-told and sometimes refined over time.
November 2006
group hug // anonymous online confessions
by 9 otherslike postsecrets but in prose; "type a note about a fault of your own, something you did or thought about and are not proud of"; filters out obvious lies, overtly vulgar, identifying specific others.
Please help me find movies that end with the main character dying. | Ask MetaFilter
It's a query that garnered 135 comments and added film titles within ten days. It lets me think MetaFilter might be fun for students, to craft media-related questions that would get lots of responses, simple queries like this one.
Modern Ruins, Photographic Essays - Shaun and Wendy O'Boyle
Traces, in the sense of Walter Benjamin's Arcades project, mark visual culture and always tell a story, if we take the time to notice
Storytelling in Flickr on Flickr
various modes of flickr storytelling are described, and the keywords needed to get to them
Third Coast International Audio Festival // Chicago Public Radio
one of the best sources for audio documentaries; here also are many how-to sessions
Low Probability of Racoons - Hypertext and Flash animated poems
uses the duration of video to make kinetic poetry that has a narrative in the words and beyond them; nice example for students of simple form with complex effects
Puzzle JumpStation - Links to Puzzles on the Web
visual computer puzzles; if you have kids at your house or visiting, this will keep them busy for hours; levels from easy to difficult
then there were 30 DAYS OF RAIN
a northwest animation based on rainy Portland, experienced from an interior
North Fork, Long Island - slide show by Thomas a Ferrara
rural part of Long Island, audio/slideshow
KQED - Digital Storytelling Initiative
View and listen to the projects of people of all ages
October 2006
Project 365: How to Take a Photo a Day and See Your Life in a Whole New Way
by 1 otheralways looking for new ways to interest students in certain kinds of projects involving visual narrative, autobiography, documentary
Photobus
audio/slideshows
September 2006
One sentence that relates something true
good for autobiographers, bloggers, screenwriters--folks who want to write pithy impactful accounts of their and others experiences.
digital storytelling links
from Digital Storytelling Festival site, current links sept 06, variety of categories
KQED
major station hosts digital storytelling initiative; good examples, handbook, model
One Sentence - True stories, told in one sentence.
Like one of my favorite sites, postsecrets, this has a kind of documentary wit that resides in brevity and style.
July 2006
KQED - About Our Workshops
"The Art, Skill, Craft, and Magic of Digital Storytelling: A How-Come, How-To Guide"--pdf file
MemoryMiner - Digital Storytelling Software - Software
"Photos as individual frames in an endless story board, allowing sound, video, documents and URLs added to each frame. "
learn storytelling-learn to tell stories-learn about storytelling-learn use of storytelling-role of storytelling
overview of storytelling, partly from a business perspective
other people's stories
" Every story on OPS is a story a contributor heard from someone else. These stories have been overheard and misheard, told and re-told and sometimes refined over time. They do not shy from hearsay, gossip, myth or guys we knew in high school."
Soothcircuit
a fun personalized daily creation of poetic advice just for you, visitable many times
