All too often, we teach students how to write and record digital stories without first teaching them how to create a story worth telling. It's important to not only teach students how to use digital tools to record, film and photograph a story but to also make sure that the story they're telling is ready for an audience.

So, how do you help students tell stories that are interesting? Stories that are well organized, creative, interesting, and vivid? This site and the resources you'll find here are a collection of ideas and projects to help you do just that.

The activities, tools and resources on these pages are ones I've either used with students in my own classroom or facilitated in a classroom with a partner teacher. They've been good story starters for me as I hope they will be for you.

This wiki is divided into 4 areas which are described below. Use the links to the left to navigate through each section. Join the site to add your ideas and resources or contribute to the discussions.

For more ideas and activities, check out the series "A Guide to Digital Storytelling" on Scholastic.com

Michelle Bourgeois

Here is a link to the Slide Deck from the TIEpresentation.

Here's a link Coloradoto 2009the presentation.Drop.io site for sharing your stories.

Improv activities and web tools to help students create a story framework and brainstorm for story starters.

Games and activities to help students learn to use descriptive language.





Projects and lesson ideas for storytelling.





Web tools, hardware, and software used to create digital stories.


Photo by Benson Kua, Flickr Creative Commons