Stories to Remember. Digital Storytelling in the form of movies or as recorded conversations in an audio format.

Many of the best resources related to digital storytelling are listed in the sidebar on the homepage. An additional annotated list of current resources available on the web for learning how to create digital stories follows in the sections below. Since this website is dedicated to preserving stories in a digital format, web sources have been cited rather than print media although books and articles have been published on the subject.

1.) The standard workshop at the Center for Digital Storytelling is the foundation course for digital storytellers. The Cookbook, compiled by the center, is a basic guide for creating digital stories and includes the seven elements of good storytelling which is cited in nearly every website and article related to this topic. Guidance on the technical aspects of creating a movie in Final Cut Express (Apple) are covered in depth. The tutorial movie for the workshop is Momnotmom. The Center for Digital Storytelling also maintains a second website called Memory’s Voices. At this website, all the elements of digital storytelling are covered but the tutorial uses Photoshop and Premiere (PC).

2.) Capture Wales is a special project of the BBC and Cardiff University. Daniel Meadows, after attending the workshop at the Center for Digital Storytelling, worked with the BBC to create “an itinerant workshop, a lab we could take out on the road” (a StoryCorps-type model) to capture stories of everyday people. 600 stories later running from 2001-2008, it won awards and empowered many people in Wales to give voice to their stories.

3.) Digitales is another digital storytelling site that provides excellent tutorials for both Apple and PC platforms as well as practical information on copyright, finding and using images and sound and music files, creating stories and evaluating projects.

1. As noted on the homepage, StoryCorps is the premier model for gathering and preserving audio stories. The predecessor to StoryCorps was an organization also created by David Isay called Sound Portraits . An interesting collection of conversations, including those of prisoners, are archived at that website along with the groundbreaking, Peabody-award winning recording first aired on NPR, Ghetto 101.

2. A similar award-winning project, Inside Lives, was conducted by BBC Stoke and Straffordshire. The BBC studio provided 4 free workshops to help people learn to tell their stories to produce a broadcast quality recording. The recordings are archived on the website.

3. This American Life broadcast by National Public Radio is also another example of professionally produced audio stories.

1. The website, Tech Head, has an exhaustive list of many digital storytelling resources. Unfortunately it has not been updated for a while, so many of the resources are no longer available.