Digital Storytelling Resources

• Educational uses of digital storytelling, from the University of Houston.
• StoryCenter. Their mission: “We create spaces for listening to and sharing stories, to help build a just and healthy world.“
• StoryCorps. Their mission: ‘StoryCorps’ mission is to preserve and share humanity’s stories in order to build connections between people and create a more just and compassionate world.”
• Our favorite digital storytelling tools, from James Madison University.
• Digital Storytelling resources and ideas, from the University of Washington.
• Digital Storytelling, from Kathy Schrock’s Guide to Everything.
• 7 Things You Should Know About Digital Storytelling, from Educause.
• Community Healing and Resistance Through Storytelling, supported by Illinois Program for Research in the Humanities.
• Digital Composition, Storytelling & Multimodal Literacy: What Is Digital Composition & Digital Literacy? From Stonybrook University Libraries.
• Digital Storytelling at UMBC, from the University of Maryland, Baltimore County.
• Digital Storytelling Cookbook, from the University of Kentucky.
• Digital Storytelling Lab, from Columbia University School of the Arts.
• Get started with Digital Storytelling, from Creative Educator.
• Start-to-finish Storyboarding, from the Advanced Media Institute at the Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism.
• Share your story: a how-to guide for digital storytelling, from the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration.
• Digital storytelling for higher education, from the University of Oregon.
• Digital storytelling tools, from the University of Miami.
• Digital storytelling in higher education, from the University of Edinburgh.
• Digital Storytelling, from the Learning Portal of the College Libraries Ontario.
• Digital Storytelling in the Classroom, from EdTech Teacher.
• 8 Steps to Great Digital Storytelling, from EdTech Teacher.
• Digital Storytelling in the Primary Classroom, from Creative Educator.
• 5 Digital Storytelling Assignments in the Classroom, from iSpring.
• Digital Storytelling: An Exciting Teaching Tool! From MiddleWeb.
• Digital Storytelling, from Define American. Mission: “The fight for America’s identity online is just getting started. For immigrant communities, misinformation on YouTube has serious political consequences. We’re challenging those narratives.”
• Best Digital Storytelling Examples and Resources, a free eBook from Free Technology for Teachers and Friends, edited by Richard Byrne.
• “Integrate Digital Storytelling in Education,” a brief white paper by Halah Ahmed Alismail.
• Digital Storytelling in the Classroom, a free online course from the University of Houston.
• Making History, a guide to creating digital stories in history, from the Museums of Victoria.
• Digital Storytelling and AI: Storycenter’s Joe Lambert interviews technology expert and futurist Brian Alexander.

Some Examples of Educational Uses of Digital Storytelling

• Rwanda, the Land of a Thousand Hills, from Facing History School, Boston, Massachusetts.
• Thomas Peters, Bulgaria 1892, by Jennifer Peters, Seneca Libraries.
• “Little Squalicum Beach.” This is a video produced by a 7th grade Shuksan Middle School student in Sara T Strommer’s class. She was mentored by Kirsten White, a university student in Joyce D. Hammond’s Visual Anthropology class at Western Washington University during Winter Quarter, 2011.
• Stories Matter! From Creative Narrations.
• Making History, tertiary-level projects. A variety of videos from undergraduate students studying the Making Histories course at Monash University.
• Thematically Organized Stories, from the Center for Digital Storytelling (StoryCenter).
• HIS 362: The Great War, 1914-1918, digital-story capstone projects from Prof. Todd Gernes’ seminar in World History.