Display your youth produced video, audio, photography and website at YouthSpace.net. You'll find curriculum, a forum and links to organizations working with youth. 

http://www.youthspace.net/

My Pop Studio is a creative play experience that strengthens critical thinking skills about television, music, magazines and online media directed at girls.

http://www.mypopstudio.com/index2.php 

A blog is a user generated website where entries are made in journal style and displayed in a reverse chronological order.

Blogs often provide commentary or news on a particular subject, such as food, politics, or local news; some function as more personal online diaries. A typical blog combines text, images, and links to other blogs, web pages, and other media related to its topic. The ability for readers to leave comments in an interactive format is an important part of many blogs. Most blogs are primarily textual although some focus on photographs (photoblog), sketchblog, videos (vlog), or audio (podcasting), and are part of a wider network of social media.

Voices of Youth is for young people who want to know more, do more and say more about the world. It’s about linking children and adolescents in different countries to explore, speak out and take action on global issues that are important to them and to creating a world fit for children.

http://www.unicef.org/voy/index.php

Curriculum designed by Natalie Seer with the assistance of the staff of Girls Inc. of Alameda County, 2001.

Project : Using images, text and sound, participants create a story expressing who they are.

Setting : computer lab at Girls Inc in San Leandro, CA

Participants : 5-8 girls ages 9 to 11

Duration : 10 sessions of 2 hours each

Technology

• iMovie
  
• Adobe Photoshop
  
• Scanning
  
• digital still camera
  

Other materials

Center for Digital Storytelling (www.storycenter.org)
1803 MLK Jr. Way Berkeley, CA 94709
510-548-2065

Third World Majority (http://www.cultureisaweapon.org/)
A new media training and production resource center dedicated to global justice. Our principal organizing focus is the community digital storytelling workshop.
369 15th Street Oakland, CA 94612
510.682.6624

Silence Speaks ((http://www.silencespeaks.org/)
Digital Storytelling in support of healing and violence prevention.
1916A Martin Luther King Jr. Way, Berkeley, California, 94709

Links & Resources: Nationwide

1. Point of view / perspective

   Who's telling the story?
   Why are they telling it?
   What do you want to convey / message?
   To whom are they telling it?
   

2. Dramatic question

   Situation (beginning/openings: pose a big idea or a big question)
   Action resulting from situation
   Resolution or realization/insight: this 3rd step allows people to reflect back into their own life
   

3. Emotional Content

   Tell a story you care about, be personally connected
   Then people will care to listen, attentive listening to a personal story
   Number of  Production Techniques
   

4. Gift of Voice

   Of your voice
   Use it to convey adjectives and emotions
   

5. Power of Soundtrack

6. Economy

   Condense meaning
   Use metaphor, juxtaposition
   Whole should be greater than the sum of its parts
   

7. Pacing

   Use it for a purpose, for emotional impact
   

• Overview
• What is a digital story?
• 7 elements of a digital story
• Process for making a digital story
• Writing prompts
• Links & resources
• Curriculum ideas

• This toolkit is geared primarily toward community technology network staff looking to integrate digital storytelling into their organizations. Included are insights from various digital storytelling practitioners and trainers, explaining how they practically apply digital storytelling in their own work. There are outlines for the key elements and the process of digital story creation, as well as some writing prompts to give you story ideas as you and your group begin to create your own digital stories. Finally, there are several links listed if you are further interested in digital storytelling.
  
  
• In the San Francisco Bay Area, we are fortunate to have many local organizations working on digital storytelling. Contact the Center for Digital Storytelling in Berkeley () if you are interested in learning more!

What is a digital story?

• A digital storytelling movement has been growing over the years. Digital stories can be personal, political, and community oriented in nature. Whatever their final form, they increase visual literacy, build technological skills, refine writing, and expand our capacity for interpreting and making sense of our lives and the world around us. Creating and these stories strengthens the power of our vision, and sharing our creations confirms how important it is for us to express our insights with the rest of the world.
  
  
• The Center for Digital Storytelling, views personal storytelling as empowering and healing:
  
  
  • We all have stories about the events, people and places in our lives. Many of the stories are directly connected to the images that one collects in a life's journey. But our primary concern is encouraging thoughtful and emotionally direct writing.
    
  • We have found that writing into the images, narrating the story, and bringing the images to life using the power of digital media design tools, creates a powerful medium for presenting a story.
    
  • In a group process, the sharing of these stories connects people in special ways. People often come to our workshops feeling insecure about their writing, about the technology, about their design sensibility. At the end of the workshops, when the stories our shared, their is a bit of magic, as the fruits of their own work, and those around them, surprises and inspires.

  Digital storytelling can also be used for community organizing and political change, as articulated and practiced by Third World Majority:

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