Everything you know about ARGs is WRONG
http://sixtostart.com/onetoread/2008/everything-you-know-about-args-is-wrong/

millions of blog entries: that no one will read apart from five people

Ding! Correct! This, right here, is why I have never played an ARG. And why I would love to get paid to write one.

a hilarious, soul-searching talk by Dan Hon of ARG development company Six to Start at the Let's Change The Game conference held in December 2008.

"A master class in storytelling. Ira Glass, host of "This American Life" on radio and TV, has spent years telling stories, and getting stories told. In one of the most popular Gel talks ever, Ira describes the elements of a good story."

I heart this american life

Ira Glass

a wiki all about creating and sharing digital stories

Great insights into the difference between getting your name in the news, and getting people excited about your products/company.

Data Visualization

Today's consumer seems to have an insatiable appetite for information, but until recently making sense of all of that raw data was too daunting for most. Enter the new "visual scientists" who are turning bits and bytes of data -- once purely the domain of mathematicians and coders -- into stories for our digital age.

A nice round up of teh ideas and some great examples

Advertising Age - DigitalNext

Today's consumer seems to have an insatiable appetite for information, but until recently making sense of all of that raw data was too daunting for most. Enter the new "visual scientists" who are turning bits and bytes of data -- once purely the domain of mathematicians and coders -- into stories for our digital age.

Short blog post offers several different examples, not all from news organizations.

the Game Mastering Blog

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Creating a comic in the digital medium

Art - community of artists and those devoted to art. Digital art, skin art, themes, wallpaper art, traditional art, photography, poetry / prose. Art prints.

nice monocle achtig stijltje, super simpel

David Lynch

david lynch project, om de 3 dagen een interview gedurende 1 jaar

While I'm preparing, I try to extract the main takeaways -- that is, the most important points of my talk, the points I most want the audience to remember. Those points will form the talk's skeleton. By not using notes, you force yourself to understand your takeaways very clearly. The reason you have to be so clear on them is that if you don't know what they are, your talk will have no structure, and you'll have a hard time remembering it when you do it live.

The art of creating stories and the craft of sharing them. Inspired by the written word and the authors that link words and phrases together to form tales.

Ficly is a place for playing with story-telling; a collaborative environment where anyone can pick up a narrative thread and weave a prequel or sequel.

Ficly is a place for playing with story-telling; a collaborative environment where anyone can pick up a narrative thread and weave a prequel or sequel. You can start a story or jump into someone else's tale. The possibilities are endless, and in some cases, so are the stories.

short story collaboration site, write prequels or sequels to the work of others.

ISTE vision for videos from NECC

videos from ISTE

Here you can create your own story, share it with friends and visit the gallery to see what other Storymakers have made.

Fer històries

oh wow - this is fun;)

mi piace la grafica

Enables digital stories to be made and shared with friends.

Book publishers Penguin have developed a website where children can write, illustrate (and add sounds) and publish their own stories.

Much like This American LIfe, but with a historical focus.

Remember to subscribe to this in Zune.

A good summary of digital storytelling

Creating stories using web tools is fun and engaging for student while also teaching them new skills. Best of all you can embed them in blog posts to grab readers; including something a bit different makes reading posts more interesting.

Changing Corporate Culture

d culture, instead of making the

"You change a culture with stories

# Do dramatic story-worthy things that represent the culture we want to create. Then let other people tell stories about it. # Find other people who do story-worthy things that represent the culture we want to create. Then tell stories about them.

I was at a Kurt Vonnegut talk in New York a few years ago. Talking about writing, life, and everything. He explained why people have such a need for drama in their life. He said, “People have been hearing fantastic stories since time began. The problem is, they think life is supposed to be like the stories. Let's look at a few examples.”

I was at a Kurt Vonnegut talk in New York a few years ago. Talking about writing, life, and everything. He explained why people have such a need for drama in their life. .He said, “People have been hearing fantastic stories since time began. The problem is, they think life is supposed to be like the stories. Let's look at a few examples.”

A sight for creating stories around images.

Storybirds are short, visual stories that you make with family and friends to share and (soon) print.

Transmedia storytelling Henry Jenkins

lots of interesting looking links and articles

Experience Themes How a storytelling method can help unify teams and create better products by Cindy Chastain on 2009/10/06

Como usar historias para elegir el tema general de un sitio y mantenerlo enfocado.

The more beautifully you shape your work around one clear idea, the more meanings audiences will discover in your film as they take your idea and follow its implication into every aspect of their lives.

There’s an old adage among screenwriters that when a writer can sum up a story in a sentence or less, he has discovered what’s important about the story. He’ll know what the story is about and therefore have a strong sense of theme. And in knowing the theme, he’ll have a compass to use in the process of “designing” the damn thing (i.e. what to keep, what to lose, what actually happens at the end). The story will be all the better for it because it all hangs together with a central idea that will give it greater impact and meaning.

21st Century Teaching

A great list of digital story telling ideas and projects. All in a wiki.

digital storytelling resources

digital sorytelling resources

Brilliant list of resources about digital storytelling

create animated movies online

consente di creare buffe animazioni in stile cartoon da condividere nel web.

Memoov is an open online platform that enables you to create & share your animated videos. Check it out. It's all free.

online movie generator

Your best photo stories.

Winter was on the way and the need for shelter was urgent. We express sincere appreciation of the hard work of all photojournalists who are working for humanity,...

interesantan projekat googlea sa NYT i WP za buduci prikaz vijesti. Mislim da su interfejsi interesantni tako da bi mogli razmisliti o slicnim stvarima za ubuduce.

"The Living Stories project is an experiment in presenting news, one designed specifically for the online environment. The project was developed by Google in collaboration with two of the country's leading newspapers, The New York Times and The Washington Post."

Create personalized children's stories instantly.

Great site on digital storytelling and how it relates to 21st century learning

article by Bernajean Porter

designed to help teachers develop digital storytelling projects for their classrooms.

storytelling

In the first part of this Better User Experience With Storytelling series, we explored some of the basic structures and story patterns found in myths and religions. We saw how these patterns continued into modern stories such as The Matrix and Star Wars. We also explored some of the basics of bringing storytelling into the user experience process and some places to get started. Concluding this two-part article, we hear from creative professionals who are leading the way in this relatively new world of combining the craft of storytelling with user experience. We’ll also see how storytelling can be applied to more than just interactive experiences: we find it in everything from packaging to architecture.

In the first part of this Better User Experience With Storytelling series, we explored some of the basic structures and story patterns found in myths and religions.

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guide was written especially for educators, who want to teach 21st century skills, such as collaborating, communicating, and connecting, through digital storytelling

This guide was written especially for educators, who want to teach 21st century skills, such as collaborating, communicating, and connecting, through digital storytelling

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I've seen Signed Stories bouncing around the blogosphere and Twittersphere for a few weeks now, but only recently have I had time to explore it. Signed Stories is a provider of free videos featuring children's stories accompanied by subtitles and sign language. All of the stories feature someone signing the story (in British Sign Language). In addition to sign language many of the stories also offer subtitles. The videos on Signed Stories are organized into seven themes. With the exception of the Baby and Toddler section the stories are not categorized by age. Although every video is free, because many of the stories and images are copyrighted, Signed Stories videos cannot be downloaded or embedded into other sites

Free videos featuring children's stories with subtitles and signed in British Sign Language.

a provider of free videos featuring children's stories accompanied by subtitles and sign language. All of the stories feature someone signing the story (in British Sign Language). In addition to sign language many of the stories also offer subtitles. The videos on Signed Stories are organized into seven themes. With the exception of the Baby and Toddler section the stories are not categorized by age. Although every video is free, because many of the stories and images are copyrighted, Signed Stories videos cannot be downloaded or embedded into other sites

A cool way of telling a digital story via google searches. Looks like it could be a good tool to use with students.

Creatore automatico di video basato sulle ricerche di google

A little project by Ze Frank with vocal contributions from many others.

When getting to veterinary school is too overwhelming a task, go here.

A fan sent zefrank (one of my all-time favorites) an email explaining how stressed out and overwhelmed she was. He wrote her a song and had other fans sings the chorus. This is the story and the final song. Try not to cry. This guy is tremendous.

Fun for spending time with grandchildren

new stories for children, read by children

RT @tcea: New #animated #comiccreator called #Stage'd available at http://stagedproject.com/. Use it to create #3D digital plays!

From Kelly Tenkely: Stage’d is a tool that helps students to tell digital stories in a new 3-d way. Students can create a stage full of characters and dialogue as if they are directing their own digital play. They can choose characters, costumes, animations, set design and provide characters with dialog. When the 3-d comic has been saved, it can be emailed or linked to with a unique url. Stage’d is perfect for use in any classroom, to save a comic requires no personal identifying information or even an email address. All students have to do is type in the name of the director (first name only or a pseudonym)."

Staged is a very simple to use 3D comic design webtool that allows students to create animated comic strips that speak with speech bubbles. It would be a great way to have students act out a scene from a novel or history.

create a 3C comic

A digital toy for creating animated comics.

hasticity, which is the science of random chance, and they talked to someone who

There's whatever the story appears to be about—the financial crisis, evangelical Christianity, cryogenics—and then there's what it's actually about. And what it's actually about is, as often as not, wrongness.

Ira Glass on the narrative power of being wrong