Some blogs that I have found to be very useful:

Wesley Fryer is the author of Moving at the Speed of Creativity. He has recently posted some notes from the SITE Conference as well. Also has sample student video DST project Using Tech to Tell Stories http://techstories.edublogs.org/

This blog has tips, ideas about digital stories. It has been blogging from the SITE conference about the DST sessions at the conference. Society for Info Tech and Teacher Ed Digital Writing, Digital Teaching. http://hickstro.org/2008/03/05/notes-from-three-digital-storytelling-sessions/Reports out on SITE conference. This posts gives lots of details from practical, hands-on session.

And there is a really good blog site by an elementary school teacher who has put together some very good resources, ideas, and projects.

These blogs are not exactly a student project but rather blogs about student projects in Digital Storytelling (DST). The posts on this particular week are coming from the Society for Technology and Teacher Education (SITE). This professional organization has an annual conference that looks at some of the current technology and how it can be used to support new teacher growth.For the past several years the main topics have been ePortfolios, Digital Video, and DST. This post has been relating the main ideas from the DST sessions with the how-to and issues to consider for a DST project. It also links to several related blogs that have ideas and some student produced DST movies.

I had to miss this year’s SITE conference, but did not realize that I might be able to gain from it indirectly through blogs like these. I feel like I am getting the cliff notes of the sessions I would have attended. From the blogs it is evident that there is more DST happening in both the teacher education world and in K-12 classroom over the last 2-3 years.

For my student project I am thinking that a blog for my students to discuss, share, and participate in this larger community of DST might support the development of their own stories in a culminating project for their masters of education degrees. I have used this main DST project for a few years now, but it has been mainly an individual effort. A blog would allow each student access to a larger audience as they develop, create, and publish their work.

We’ll see where this idea ends up.