Links to free stuff that will help you with your digital storytelling project

Tell Us Your Story

The tutors manual for a radio storytelling project I set up with the BBC and the Learning and Skills Councils in the North West is still available on the BBC RaW site. Lots of stuff about helping people to find their story.

KQED Workshop Manuals

Some of the best guides on the web without opening your wallet

BBC Capture Wales Guides

The BBC in Wales has put it’s manuals online – another excellent free resource

Daniel Meadows

Daniel was the inspiration – and quite a lot of the perspiration too – behind the Capture Wales project. He offers the manuals he created as downloads on his website Photobus. There you will find iMovie, Adobe Premiere and the original Capture Wales How We Do It manuals - free downloads

The original “How we do it” manual was everyone’s reference book for the BBC Telling Lives project – it was meticulously written and contained every detail of the process of running a workshop in the Capture Wales style. The software it was based on is now largely out of date but the ethos of the manual is well worth absorbing.

Audacity

Audacity is a perfectly adequate audio editor for digital storytellers and its free