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PUBLIC MARKS from jlesage with tags how-to & Narrative

November 2006

Visuarios: broadcast your skills

how-to videos or, more commonly, audio/slideshows; useful rhetorically for both technical writing and instructional video learning; web2.0 sharing of video that is perhaps instructionally more useful than YouTube.

Mojiti-video commentary software

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useful for teachers making clips to analyze in class; "personalize any video with your story. With visual spotlights, you can narrate your personal videos, add captions or subtitles, or comment on any scene."

The Thirty-Six Dramatic Situations - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

"descriptive list which was created by Georges Polti to categorize every dramatic situation which might occur in a story or performance"; tips for screenwriters looking for ideas

Digital Storytelling: A Tutorial in 10 Easy Steps

basic tips by J.D. Lasica on preparing for doing an audio/slideshow in narrative form, perhaps a first person recollection, tightly crafted. Makes a good handout.

Tameri Guide for Writers: Plot and Story

one page of a larger, useful site for writers; this page covers what a screenwriter thinks about to construct a spine, here called plot, or basic story idea; it is the central task for the writer

October 2006

Self Publishing Blog: 101 Resources for Self Published Writers

tips for creative folks looking for story ideas, fiction or non fiction; links to many sites that stimulate writing

Project 365: How to Take a Photo a Day and See Your Life in a Whole New Way

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always looking for new ways to interest students in certain kinds of projects involving visual narrative, autobiography, documentary

Kate Bornstein's Blog for Teens, Freaks and Other Outlaws: The Voice Lesson

"Kate Bornstein in a slide show version of "The Voice Lesson," a trans-positive, feminist, funny look at how women are expected to talk." Makes good use of audio as unique medium for exposition of this content. Example of how audio slide show works.

Digital Story Examples

a page leading to many examples, things you could make with imovie; from more than decade of practice from 1990-2003

September 2006

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. "

Audio documentary by Chuck Kleinhans

much radio documentary and many audio archives focus on first person narration

June 2006