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Interviewing

Interviewing Parents
How to interview your parents to reveal and preserve family stories for generations to come.
www.interviewingparents.com

Living History Project
A resource for interviewing techniques.
http://memory.loc.gov/learn/lessons/97/florida/inter.html

Teen Reporter Handbook
Joe Richman's Interviewing tips and basic principles related to National Public Radio.
www.radiodiaries.com/makeyourown.html

The Journalist Toolbox
An extensive set of reporting and interviewing resources.
www.journaliststoolbox.com/newswriting/reportingtechniques.html


Storytelling

BrainGlow
An interactive DVD focused on youth storytelling. Produced by the Bay Area Video Coalition.
www.bavc.org/brainglow

Digital Clubhouse Network
A non-profit organization whose mission is to develop innovative ways of using information technology to enrich K-12 education and life long learning.
www.digiclub.org

Digital Storytelling Conference and Festival
An annual storytelling event which takes place in Sedona, Arizona.
www.dstory.com

Heroes Journey Workshop
Using Joseph Campbell's model, this workshop helps at-risk youth explore the Rites of Passage and the models for the The Hero's Journey.
www.adolescentmind.com/heros_journey_wkshp.htm

Storytelling Resource
An exhaustive list of storytelling and folklore resources.
www.ils.unc.edu/~sturm/storytelling/resources.html

The Center for Digital Storytelling
A non-profit project that assists people in using digital media to tell meaningful stories from their lives.
www.storycenter.org

The Storyteller's Page – The WHEEL Council
An overview of the ways in which stories can act as prevention methods as well.
www.wheelcouncil.org/storytellers.html


Filming

Apple
A free site that has easy-to-use instructions for all aspects of filming and editing. Geared towards educators.
http://ali.apple.com/ali_sites/ali/exhibits/1000019/editing_techniques.html

Bill Ames' Filming Manual
A large set of video production links and resources.
www.angelfire.com/ar2/videomanual1/

Heroes: Documentary Film Making
A set of lesson plans designed to teach documentary filmmaking.
http://english.unitecnology.ac.nz/resources/units/heroes/home.html

Listen Up!
A national network of youth media organizations with lots of youth-produced work.
www.listenup.org

Video Online
A comprehensive resource for filming and posting video on the web.
www.itrainonline.org/itrainonline/english/video.shtml


Editing

Apple
A free site that has easy-to-use instructions for all aspects of filming and editing. Geared towards educators.
http://ali.apple.com/ali_sites/ali/exhibits/1000019/editing_techniques.html

Atomic Learning
A free online video-based tutorial on iMovie.
www.atomiclearning.com/freeimovie.shtml

Bill Ames' Editing Manual
A comprehensive set of editing resources.
www.angelfire.com/ar2/videomanual1/


Website Hero Projects

Everyday Hero Stories by Youth
A website for grades 4-6 that publishes stories, poems, and other creative work about heroes.
www.ksu.edu/wwparent/programs/hero/hero-stories.html

Gallery of Unsung Heroes and Heroines
A website from Canada about ordinary heroes. http://www.occdsb.on.ca/~sel/hero/project.htm

Global Heroes
A website that focuses on heroes from around the world.
www.globalheroes.com/english.htm

Heroism in Action: Make A Difference
A website from Australia that focuses on everyday heroes. http://library.thinkquest.org/C001515/welcome/

My Hero
A not for profit educational web project that hosts an internet archive of hero stories from around the world.
http://myhero.com/

Neighborhood Heroes
A website about neighborhood heroes.
www.neighbourhoodheroes.com/stories_teens.shtml

The Churchill Center – Project Heroes
A humanities, language arts and interviewing curriculum for children with learning disabilities.
www.churchillcenter.org/curriculum.shtml

What Makes a Hero?
A curriculum that is based around a collection of 80 posters from diverse communities around the world.
www.main.nc.us/diversity/heroes.html

Everyday Heroes
A documentary feature film that tells the story of an AmeriCorps team working as tutors, mentors, and health educators in Northern California.
www.every-day-heroes.org

 

 

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