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Every writer has heard the phrase “show, don’t tell,” but figuring out exactly what that means can take a while. This guide provides a strategy for deciding what to show …

Working on a project that will include audio voiceover? Here’s how to estimate how long the voiceover will be, based on the number of words in your script: Choose a …

Related resource: GUIDE – Examples of Showing vs. Telling Digital storytelling falls under the larger category of creative nonfiction, which makes use of narrative strategies from fiction and filmmaking. This …

QUOTES ON STORYTELLING “Telling weak stories with technology is like giving a bad guitar player a bigger amplifier.” “Writing is the primary tool used to plan and create a digital …

Below you’ll find an overview of three common approaches to storytelling through new media. Each of these approaches allows you to make an emotional connection with your audience in different …

ABOUT THIS PROMPT: The prompts below are from Joe Lambert’s book, Digital Storytelling: Capturing Lives, Creating Community, with some modifications to adapt them to a handout. Lambert is a founder …

Students in my Storytelling through New Media class write flash memoirs as one of many types of personal storytelling popularized through new media formats. I collected these resources for the …

I collected these links for student in the Fall 2014 section of my Digital Storytelling class and thought I should share them here as well. Stories to Read Cowbird – …

You can also use presentation tools to compose photo stories. See: WEB APPS for Creating Presentations & Slideshows The web apps available for composing photo stories are typically classified as …

NOTE: These are the criteria I used to evaluate audio narratives for students in the Fall 2013 section of New Media Storytelling, but they also work well as a set …

NOTE: The tips below are from a calendar entry for my Fall 2013 sections of WRTG 3020, but they should be helpful to anyone planning to compose an audio essay. …

The StoryCorps approach works well for students who are interested in storytelling and who would like to try composing an audio narrative or a live video interview. About StoryCorps is …

NOTE: The material below is from a syllabus page for my Fall 2012 digital storytelling class. Our primary goal across all projects is to explore contemporary ways of engaging in …

Below are some of the many notes I’ve taken and passages I’ve saved in the process of doing web research on digital storytelling. Most of the wording and all of …

The following tips and strategies apply specifically to CDS-Style digital stories created in video editing apps like iMovie and MovieMaker. For instructions on how to apply the effects described below, …

Also see this more recent post: Collections of digital and new media stories to read, watch, and listen to STORY COLLECTIONS ON THE WEB On these pages you can access …

I wrote this handout for students in my 2010 sections of WRTG 1150 as well as my Spring 2011 section of WRTG 2090, to help them with the digital literacy …