Models of digital storytelling

Center for Digital Storytelling in California

Many individuals and communities have used the term "digital storytelling" to describe a wide variety of new media production practices. What best describes their 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.

Pilgrim Projects

A small organisation based in Cambridge offers an experience of digital stortytelling and also support for developing skills in facilitation, based on the team's experiences of working in health and social care fields. Digital stories, developed through a carefully developed methodology, are exemplified in the Patients Voices programme facilitates the telling and sharing of stories of care by all stakeholders. The innovative model of free distribution of resulting stories for use in health and social care education and quality improvement ensures that those voices are heard, and that the investment of storytellers is nurtured to develop maximum social capital.

Jo Tait's second digital story - a story of Fellowship. This is an example of a story with a purpose. I began to make at Pilgrim and finished, using less sophisticated software, at a workshop run by University of Gloucestershire.

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Capture Wales

Everyone has a story to tell. All over Wales, people are making Digital Stories about real-life experiences and each story is as individual as the person who made it. Each Digital Story is made by the storyteller themself, using his or her own photos, words and voice.

Assessing Complex Stories

At the workshop on Digital Storytelling at the University of Gloucester we were shown some interesting examples of stories.  The process was reasonably open, and some of the results were facinating, and quite unexpected.  This was both an opportunity (for innovation and creativity) and a problem (within a pre-set outcomes-based assessment system). 

However, if we approach assessment within complexity theory, we can make the assessment as open as the story process, and still achieve rigorous assessment, based on recorded evidence.  Here are some thoughts on how this can be done. 

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