Teaching & Learning
- Follow Barbara on Twitter for her latest conversations/linking on storytelling, social media, and working with rural communities.
Read Barbara’s Blog for her ruminations from 2004 to the present on emerging technologies, teaching and leaning, storytelling, and making sense of this world.- Capturing Community Memory with Oral History and New Media
- Relying on Ourselves, The Spirit of Rural Community Development by Nelda K. Pearson: a section on the role of storytelling in community development in rural Appalachia.
Resources from The Orton Family Foundation:
- Why Storytelling?
- Storytelling Planning
- Storytelling and Sustainability
- “The Most Human Art” Article by Scott Russell Sanders on the art of storytelling.
- Exercise Examples from the Heart & Soul communities (download): Damariscotta Community Conversations Flyer
Presentations
- Digital Story A Tale of Two Dances, for Northern Voice Conference 2009
Our Slideshare Sets: Here you will find slide sets from some of our recent workshops.-
Barbara’s collage presentation for a keynote at NITLE, Balancing Acts. -
Slide sets to eighteen of Barbara’s past talks on Flickr. Links to “Media”: examples from Slideshare, Flickr, Vuvox Facilitation and teaching guides (download)
Tools
- A wiki For Orton’s Heart & Soul Storytelling Projects
- A wiki for Orton’s Heart & Soul Storytelling Project in Biddeford, Maine
- Our resources page, from the storytelling wikis
- Alan Levine’s List of Storytelling Tools: All-knowing source of digital tools for storytelling
- Presentation tips from Ira Glass
Audio
- Soundslide – dynamic multimedia slideshows
Visual (storyboard, visualization, etc.)
- Storyboarding from Berkeley’s Knight’s Media Center
- Dabbleboard collaborate on story ideas; lay it out, write it out
- Mindmeister collaborative online mind mapping
- Mapping the stories using Wayfaring
- Flowgram dynamic online presentation tool
- Storyboarding for Macs
- UUworld Mapping map-making and data-visualization tool
- Net-Map interview-based mapping tool
- Community Walk maps stories of a place onto Google Maps.
- ManyEyes – visualize data
- Media Cloud is a system that lets you see the flow of the media. It builds an archive of news stories and blog posts from the web, applies language processing, and gives you ways to analyze and visualize the data.
- Wikiviz a list of visualization tools
Digital Stories, Video
- Moviestorm Making Animated Movies
- Videoediting on Jumpcut
- Berkeley’s Knight Center for Media Tutorials on Multimedia
- Video Editing Tutorials for Final Cut Pro
- The Center for Digital Storytelling’s Cookbook
