Pre-Workshop Storytelling Prompts (from Flickr images with Creative Commons licenses)

Quick Link to Flickr

Workshop FAQ

Important Concepts about digital storytelling

Our Five Flickr Stories

Five-Card Flickr Gallery

Library of Congress Flickr Photostream

Our digital storytelling group on Flickr

Digital Storytelling Resources (Examples and Technical Requirements).

Before you use this site, you may be wondering what a Wiki's good for, if you haven't used one yet. Here's a good explanation of what a wiki is:



Thanks to Lance!

Howard Rheingold's Page of Digital Storytelling Resources
Alan Levine's "50 Ways to Tell a Story with Web 2.0"
U Maryland Baltimore County work
Story Corps
Center for Digital Storytelling at Berkeley
Digital Storytelling Cookbook (free download available of introductory chapters)

More Online Photo-Editing Tools

Workshop Outline (please tell us what's not here, what's not clear--this is your workshop)

9 a.m. to noon: Introduction to Digital Storytelling

I. What is digital storytelling?--Gardner
a. What is a story and why does it matter?
b. Compelling examples of digital storytelling

From the University of Maryland, Baltimore County:
"That's Why We Travel"
"Typecast"
"Why I Believe"

From Berkeley University:
Place: http://www.storycenter.org/stories/index.php?cat=8
Education: http://www.storycenter.org/stories/index.php?cat=3
(Great resources here as well: http://www.storycenter.org/resources.html)

From Baylor University:
"The Forgotten Side of Town"
"A Day in the Life of a College Student"
(Student reflection on these projects)

2. Initial exercises--Lance
a. Five-card Flickr (using Alan Levine's program): Here's Alan's web site, which explains the origins of the exercise - http://web.nmc.org/5cardstory/index.php. The actual 5-card story generator Alan created is here: http://web.nmc.org/5cardstory/flickr.php. To use it, simply refresh your browser to load 5 more random images from Flickr with the "5cardflickr" tag, and click the ones you want--when you reach 5, a form will appear that will allow you to e-mail the permalink for your story to someone else.

You may also visit the "visualstory" group on Flickr and upload your own story as a topic with your own photos or those from Flickr Creative Commons. If you make your own story here, be sure the read the instructions on the group page. The most effective approach is to have the images appear on the topic itself, but this requires knowing a little HTML. We'll cover this in class perhaps.

b. Participants create Five-Card Flickr stories, share with group

c. Ellen discusses tagging, possibilities for using Flickr for specific courses this way

d. Eileen talks about The Red Balloon

Lunch break (on your own)
Noon-1:30

1:30-3:00
3. Work up more stories--work in small groups or independently. Use original material as desired.
4. Share stories with large group

Coda: The story of UMBC, the Center for Digital Storytelling, and how these activities build community and enhance learning.