Web 2.0 Storytelling Tools
Susan Brooks-Young introduced me to a great online resource with the odd name CogDogRoo. It turns out a very busy person named Alan Levine created an online resource for a series of workshops that lists (at the time of this writing) 57 different Web 2.0 tools that can be used for digital storytelling. That in itself isn’t unusual, of course, but what he did that was different was he took the time to retell the same story with each tool!
The specific page on Alan’s wiki is here, and it is wonderfully comprehensive. In addition to his own oft-retold story, almost all of the titles also include examples of stories told by others. He also has a shorter list at the end of tools that he’s tried that weren’t successful for one reason or another, so you can see what sites to avoid (at least for now). Susan took us through a one-hour workshop where we each picked a different tool and spent ten or fifteen minutes creating a presentation. I put together a short Animoto video about the aftermath of a windstorm in our neighborhood last year. (No great shakes, but only about four minutes to create it with images from my Flickr account!) It’s a great site for a quick Web 2.0 training - as long as they aren’t blocked, anyway.