This document summarizes digital storytelling. It discusses how digital storytelling began with Dana Atchley's "Next Exit" performances in the 1990s, where he shared personal digital stories with audiences. It describes how Joe Lambert and Dana Atchley then began training people to make their own short digital stories. The document outlines the key aspects of digital storytelling, such as using multimedia like images and voice recordings to tell personal stories. It provides examples of digital storytelling projects in the US and Portugal. It also lists resources for digital storytelling like the Center for Digital Storytelling and Vox Populis websites.
2. Digital Storytelling
NARRATIVAS DIGITAIS
«Every community has a memory of itself.
Not a history, nor an archive, nor an
authoritative record...
A living memory, an awareness of a
collective identity woven of a thousand
stories»
Center for Digital Storytelling – Berkeley CA
www.storycenter.org
7. Digital Storytelling
NARRATIVAS DIGITAIS
May 2004
José Sacavém
Completes the Digital
Storytelling 3 day basic
workshop in Polverigi-Italy,
by Joe Lambert from CDS-
Center for Digital
Storytelling, Berkeley CA.
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8. Digital Storytelling
NARRATIVAS DIGITAIS
October 2006
José Sacavém
Completes with support
from FLAD- Luso
American Foundation, the
Train the Trainers workshop
on Digital Storytelling in the
USA.
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9. Digital Storytelling
NARRATIVAS DIGITAIS
José Sacavém apointed by
CDS Berkeley, Project
Director for Portugal and
Portuguese speaking
countries.
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10. NARRATIVAS DIGITAIS
O que são?
Many individuals and communities have used the term
quot;digital storytellingquot; to describe a wide variety of new
media production practices.
What best describes our approach is its emphasis on
personal voice and facilitative teaching methods.
Many of the stories made in our workshops are directly
connected to the images collected in life's journey. But
our primary concern is encouraging thoughtful and
emotionally direct writing.
http://www.storycenter.org/index1.html
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11. Digital Storytelling
NARRATIVAS DIGITAIS
The beginning
Next Exit was an interactive theatrical
Performance conceived and performed by the
visual artist Dana Atchley in San Francisco in the
begining of the 90s.
Dana would sit on a tree log, around a video
log,
campfire and pulled out a virtual bag a collection
of personal small digital stories (around 70) that
he shared with his audience.
audience.
Dana kept throughtout his life all audio visual
memories and references that he could photos,
photos,
pictures, drawings, sketches, 8 mm and 16 mm
pictures, drawings, sketches,
films, videos, old vynil albuns.
films, videos, albuns.
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He then realized the power of stories when people at the audience began to share their
stories too. Until a day when he and Joe Lambert, that was the theater company producer,
too. producer,
were invited by the American Film Institute to conduct a series of workshops to train people
on how to make a small movie, entirelly by themselves. That was the begining of the Digital
movie, themselves.
Storytelling core methodology, that is apllied still today.
methodology, today.
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12. Digital Storytelling
NARRATIVAS DIGITAIS
This was the perfect example on the use of the New
Media Technologies and their positive impact on society
combined with the ancient Art of Storytelling.
Dana and Joe began to receive solicitations from major
corporations to also develop digital storytelling
processes into their internal and external
communications.
communications.
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13. Digital Storytelling
NARRATIVAS DIGITAIS
Use of rich multimedia
elements to create
personal digital stories.
Content created by the
author and narrated
with his/her own voice.
Release and sharing
tools: CD-ROM, DVD,
Internet, Intranet,
multimedia kiosks.
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14. Digital Storytelling
NARRATIVAS DIGITAIS
Easy to use computer software & e 3 day
workshop
hardware.
methodology
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15. CASE STUDY USA
Stronger
História Digital de Steven
http://www.paintedbride.org/site100-01/1001418/media/steven-small.mov
TRADING TALES Project de Filadélfia
http://www.paintedbride.org/explore.cfm/tradingtales/100001
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16. PORTUGUESE PROJECT IN PROGRESS
in association with:
Digital Storytelling will be introduced to
a tough neibourhood in Damaia, on the
Lisbon Metro area. It is a 100%
portuguese-african population with 1st
and 2nd generation immigrants and
www.pressleyridge.org/theinstitute/international_pr.asp
several issues to be addressed.
Our objective is to educate young
By appointment of our institutional supporter: children trough the Digital Storytelling
process to acquire digital and
multimedia competences and to
reinforce self aknowledgment and
integration towards the community by
http://www.flad.pt/ sharing personal life stories.
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17. PORTUGUESE PROJECT IN PROGRESS
in association with:
http://fundacao.telecom.pt/
Digital Storytelling training to support staff of citizens with special needs and
directcly facilation towards them. People with paraplegia, Dow’s Syndrome etc.
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32. By James W Bell
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33. LINKS
www.storycenter.org
www.voxpopulispt.org
BLOG VOXPOPULIS PT
http://multistorias.blogs.sapo.pt
STORIES FOR CHANGE
http://storiesforchange.net/
EUROPEAN DIGITAL STORYTELLING NETWORK
http://eustorycenter.ning.com/
info@voxpopulispt.org
www.voxpopulispt.org
34. PROFILES
José Sacavém
Founder & Executive Director
http://www.linkedin.com/in/josesacavem
Ana Boa-Ventura
Founder & Web Design Manager
@ Austin EUA
http://www.linkedin.com/pub/0/111/171
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36. OBRIGADO
THANK YOU
jsacavem@voxpopulispt.org
jose@storycenter.org
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37. AKNNOWLEDGMENTS
AGRADECIMENTOS
Rui M., Joel X., Tozé V., Carlos V.,
André X., Mauro X., Ana BV,
Fernando S., Joe L., CDS Berkeley
Staff &
www.nextexit.com
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