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The Digital Storytelling Working Group<\/a> curated this excellent set of websites that support digital storytelling creation. We recommend starting with WeVideo.<\/p>\n

www.wevideo.com<\/a>\u00a0Wevideo is a \u201ccloud\u201d video editing application. In terms of features and UI it\u2019s in between Imovie and Moviemaker, but the great thing about Wevideo is that, since it exists on the cloud and accessed through a browser, you can use Mac or PC\u2013any computer with a web browser that plays nice with flash. Note that this last fact means you can\u2019t use wevideo on an Ipad. Bad Apple! With the free version of wevideo, you can\u2019t download your completed movie directly, though you can upload it to youtube and then grab it with keepvid, see below.<\/p>\n

Check out an introduction to WeVideo below:<\/p>\n

<\/iframe><\/p>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/creativecommons\/\">www.flickr.com\/creativecommons\/<\/a>\u00a0At current count, there\u2019s something like several hundred million images on flickr that are licensed under the<a href=\"http:\/\/creativecommons.org\/\">\u00a0Creative Commons<\/a>\u00a0regime. Which means, basically, you can use these images for your digital story (there are some restrictions if you\u2019re altering images or making money off your digital storytelling [yeah, right!], though it depends on the specific CC license). Need a photo of a crowing rooster, a certain street in Berlin (in the rain)? You might just find it here.<\/p>\nAn even more massive archive can be accessed through\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/search.creativecommons.org\/\">search.creativecommons.org<\/a>\u00a0From here, in addition to flickr, you can search through google images specifically for CC-licensed material.<\/p>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.archive.org\/\">Archive.org<\/a>\u00a0is another massive repository of cool public domain stuff, including old newsreels that have been digitized. Treasure!<\/p>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/freesound.org\/\">Freesound.org<\/a>\u00a0is a crowd-sourced sound effects library. Need the call of a Magpie flying from one valley to another in Kyoto in the third week of May? Chances are one of freesound\u2019s volunteer audio soldiers has gone out and captured the sound. All of it is CC-licensed. You can find particular noises but also mixes and ambient recordings of things like city streets, fighting seagulls, etc.<\/p>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/ccmixter.org\/\">ccmixter.org<\/a>\u00a0is, like freesound, a crowdsourced, CC-licensed library of music. They have a great search page where you can even run searches for instrumental music that would work perfect with your digital story. It leans towards electronica a bit, but there\u2019s a pretty wide variety of styles represented. If you want to do a 70s style B movie, you\u2019re in luck!<\/p>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/keepvid.com\/\">keepvid.com<\/a>\u00a0is a website for ripping youtube videos off their serves and onto your hard drive. This can get dicey legally, but we\u2019re proposing you use them for stuff in the public domain and for your own videos that you uploaded in the first place.<\/p>\nPiknik used to be our online photo editor of choice, but it\u2019s no more. One of our participants today had good luck with\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/fotoflexer.com\/\">fotoflexer.com<\/a>\u00a0You upload your image, tweak away, and then download the edited version. Works great for little things like cropping, rotation, and basic adjustments.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Digital Storytelling Working Group curated this excellent set of websites that support digital storytelling creation. We recommend starting with WeVideo. www.wevideo.com\u00a0Wevideo is a \u201ccloud\u201d video editing application. In terms of features and UI it\u2019s in between Imovie and Moviemaker, but the great thing about Wevideo is that, since it exists on the cloud and… <a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/dwlibrary.macalester.edu\/digitalstorytelling\/teaching\/tools-and-platforms\/\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"parent":56,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dwlibrary.macalester.edu\/digitalstorytelling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/58"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dwlibrary.macalester.edu\/digitalstorytelling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dwlibrary.macalester.edu\/digitalstorytelling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwlibrary.macalester.edu\/digitalstorytelling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwlibrary.macalester.edu\/digitalstorytelling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=58"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/dwlibrary.macalester.edu\/digitalstorytelling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/58\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":302,"href":"https:\/\/dwlibrary.macalester.edu\/digitalstorytelling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/58\/revisions\/302"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwlibrary.macalester.edu\/digitalstorytelling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/56"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dwlibrary.macalester.edu\/digitalstorytelling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=58"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}