Links for EVERYTHING http://www.tech-head.com/dstory.htm
Web 2.0 and Digital StoryTelling article by Bryn Alexander and Alan Levine

Centers

• University of Houston: Educational Uses of digital story telling http://digitalstorytelling.coe.uh.edu/index.html
• Center for Digital Story Telling http://www.storycenter.org/index1.html
• Story Corps!  http://www.storycorps.org/

Community Service

Place-Based Stories and Tools Story Mapping uses new technologies to map stories to communities http://storymapping.org/

Cookbooks (How-to Guides)

• The cookbook http://www.storycenter.org/memvoice/pages/cookbook.html
• Jason Ohler's Companion Website to Digital Storytelling in the Classroom. http://www.jasonohler.com/storytelling/index.cfm
• Seminar.net is an online, international journal of media, technology and lifelong learning.  There is a special issue on digital storytelling http://seminar.net/index.php

Copyright

Ohler's take...

Culture & Digital Stories

Henry Jenkins, Participatory Culture, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ibJaqXVaOaI

Educational Uses 

• Integrating Digital StoryTelling in the Classroom: http://its.ksbe.edu/dst/
• Scholastic's Guide to Digital Storytelling: Getting started, tools, managing, assessment http://www2.scholastic.com/browse/collection.jsp?id=244 

Evaluation

• Elements of Digital StoryTelling: http://www.inms.umn.edu/elements/index.php
• Digital Stories in E-Portfolios: http://electronicportfolios.com/digistory/purposes.html

Examples

• Digital Stories Created by Scott County Teachers http://www.dtc.scott.k12.ky.us/technology/digitalstorytelling/teacherstories.html

Interactive Stories

• simulations

Uncovering Stories

• Middlebury Writing workshop: https://segue.middlebury.edu/view/html/site/wrpr0100a-f04/node/4590130 has some exercises and worksheets for getting started writing stories.
• StoryCorps http://storycorps.org/diy/participate/ has a Do It Yourself Guide that includes questions for interviews.  

Reading Resources

Online, Interactive Tools that meet 2nd Grade Standards http://it.sps.lane.edu/students/reading/2.html

Digitells Read Along with Me Software http://www.digitells.com/