Digital Storytelling: Capturing Lives, Creating Community

This volume from the Center for Digital Storytelling (CDS), United States (US), contains contextual essays about the history and vision of their work. Six chapters talk about making a digital story and using it for personal or professional needs, and six chapters discuss how digital storytelling has been taught and applied. It is both a text book and a teacher's guide.

The contents include:

• Chapter 1 - A Road Traveled - Evolution of the Digital Storytelling Practice
• Chapter 2 - Meaning and the Memory Box
• Chapter 3 - Stories in Our Lives - Update of Kinds of Stories
• Chapter 4 - Approaches to the Scripting Process - Prompts and Processes
• Chapter 5 - 7 Elements
• Chapter 6 - Storyboarding
• Chapter 7 - Designing In Digital - Issues/Ideas about working with Digital Imaging and Video
• Chapter 8 - The Storyteller - Presentation and Digital Storytelling
• Chapter 9 - The Story Circle - Process and Participation
• Chapter 10 - Applications - Reflections of the Meaning and Uses of Digital Storytelling
• Chapter 11 - Making Community - A Conversation with Thenmozhi Soundararajan
• Chapter 12 - When Silence Speaks - A Conversation with Amy Hill
• Chapter 13 - The Change Within - A Conversation with Caleb Paull
• Chapter 14 - Emotional Branding - A Conversation with Dana W. Atchley (1998)
• Appendix A - The World of Digital Storytelling
• Appendix B - Caveat Emptor: Ideas/Issues on creating a Digital Storytelling Production Environment
• Appendix C - Digital Storytelling Web Resources

All proceeds from sales of the book benefit CDS Scholarship Fund.

Editor's note: As of June 9 2009, this book is on backorder. CDS estimates orders of the new 3rd Edition to start shipping by August 25 2009. They will process orders in the meantime, and ship when available.

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