My storytelling colleague, Stephanie West Allen, wrote to tell me she is attending a digital storytelling session this weekend. “I cannot wait!” she said.
Her instructor is Bernajean Porter of DigiTales.
Thanks, Stephanie, for turning me on to the stash of story loot at Bernajean’s visually lovely collection of sites. She offers all kinds of links, resources, and samples of digital storytelling on her main site, in addition to blogs, a story of the month, an awesome slideshow on Stories as Understanding, photoessays, podcasts, and info on digital storytelling camps.
Bernajean describes digital storytelling this way:
Digital Storytelling takes the ancient art of oral storytelling and engages a palette of technical tools to weave personal tales using images, graphics, music and sound mixed together with the author’s own story voice. Digital storytelling is an emerging art form of personal, heartful expression that enables individuals and communities to reclaim their personal cultures while exploring their artistic creativity. While the heart and power of the digital story is shaping a personal digital story about self, family, ideas, or experiences, the technology tools also invite writers and artists to think and invent new types of communication outside the realm of traditional linear narratives.
Bernajean also offers a book, DigiTales, the Art of Digital Storytelling.
