
Interviewing
Storytelling
Filming
Editing
Other hero projects
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
