Digital Storytelling Resources

Following an excellent webinar on 14/03/2023 on Digital Storytelling in the Global South, we have put together resources on work from, and suggested by, our colleagues

Digital Projects

Virtual Rosewood
Keweenaw Time Traveler:
African Digital Heritage
Simple DL
CCC @ Devils Den State Park
Rising Above in Arkansas
Historic Powhatan
District Six Museum and the St. Mark’s Memory Mapping Project
Virtual Rosewood

Virtual Rosewood

Exploring the history of Rosewood, Florida – a majority African American town destroyed during a 1923 race riot.

https://www.virtualrosewood.com

Keweenaw Time Traveler:

Keweenaw Time Traveler

An online interactive historical atlas that is changing how we learn about, share, and research the history and heritage of Michigan’s Copper Country.

www.mapyourhistory.org

African Digital Heritage

African Digital Heritage

A Nairobi based, non profit organization working to encourage a more critical, holistic and knowledge-based approach to digital solutions within African heritage.

http://africandigitalheritage.org/

Simple DL

Simple DL

A toolkit for the creation of low-resource archives.

Link

CCC @ Devils Den State Park

CCC @ Devils Den State Park

A site that combines digital mapping with the historical archive.

http://ccc.cast.uark.edu/:

Rising Above in Arkansas

Rising Above in Arkansas

Updates to the site will feature new interactive maps and a timeline that will include the history of both Arkansas camps at Rohwer and Jerome.  The archive features nearly 2500 unique items with full metadata to allow for ease of searchability.

https://risingabove.cast.uark.edu/

Historic Powhatan

Historic Powhatan

Explore the history of the town of Powhatan from the late 1800’s to today.

https://powhatan.cast.uark.edu/

District Six Museum and the St. Mark’s Memory Mapping Project

District Six Museum and the St. Mark’s Memory Mapping Project

Interactive historical map that serves as a memorial to the displaced residents of District Six in Cape Twon, South Africa.

https://www.districtsix.co.za/project/st-marks-memory-mapping-project/

Publications

Telling Stories about Stories. Towards ethical guidelines for digital storytelling in Higher Education
Digital Storytelling in the Classroom
Public participatory historical GIS, Historical Methods
Diversifying the discourse of progression to higher education
Haunted Walks of District Six: Propositions for Counter-Surveying
Reflections on Design Principles for a Digital Repository in a Low Resource Environment
Telling Stories about Stories. Towards ethical guidelines for digital storytelling in Higher Education

Gachago, Daniela, Scheepers, Jacqui & Candice Livingston (2021) Telling Stories about Stories. Towards ethical guidelines for digital storytelling in Higher Education. In Bezerra, J., Paterson, C. & Paphitis, S. (Eds): Challenging the Apartheids of Knowledge in Higher Education through Social Innovation. Stellenbosch: Sun Media. Link.

Digital Storytelling in the Classroom

González-Tennant, Edward (2017) Digital Storytelling in the Classroom: New Media Technologies for an Engaged Anthropological Pedagogy. In Deep Stories: Practicing, Teaching, and Learning Anthropology with Digital Storytelling, edited by Aaron Thornburg and Mariela Nunez-Janes, pp. 152-169. De Gruyter Open. Link.

Public participatory historical GIS, Historical Methods

Lafreniere, Don, Weidner, Luke, Trepal, Daniel, Fayen Scarlett, Sarah, Arnold, John, Pastel, Robert & Ryan Williams (2019) Public participatory historical GIS, Historical Methods: A Journal of Quantitative and Interdisciplinary History, 52:3, 132-149, DOI: 10.1080/01615440.2019.1567418

Diversifying the discourse of progression to higher education

Mazzoli Smith, Laura (2020) Diversifying the discourse of progression to higher education: Digital storytelling methodology in widening participation practice. Widening Participation and Lifelong Learning, 22(1), 79-94. DOI: http://doi.org/10.5456/WPLL.22.1.79

Haunted Walks of District Six: Propositions for Counter-Surveying

Motala, Siddique & Vivienne Bozalek (2022) Haunted Walks of District Six: Propositions for Counter-Surveying. Qualitative Inquiry, 28(2), 244–256, DOI: 10.1177/10778004211042349

Reflections on Design Principles for a Digital Repository in a Low Resource Environment

Suleman, Hussein (2019) Reflections on Design Principles for a Digital Repository in a Low Resource Environment, Proceedings of HistoInformatics Workshop 2019, 13 September 2019, Oslo, Norway, CEUR. Link.

Trainaind and Research resources

Anthro Yeti
Keweenaw History
African Digital Heritage
Simple DL
Endangered Archaeology
Digital Storytelling Webinar
Anthro Yeti

Anthro Yeti

Archaeology, Folklore, History: Turials, Mini-Docs, and Heritage Visualisations.

https://www.youtube.com/AnthroYeti

Keweenaw History

Keweenaw History. Lesson plans and tutorials coming soon.

www.keweenawhistory.com/about-the-project.html

African Digital Heritage

African Digital Heritage Training Resources:

https://africandigitalheritage.org/category/training/

Simple DL

Simple DL

An experimental toolkit to create simple digital libraries, where the goal is ease of preservation, ease of rescue and ease of development.

Simple DL

Endangered Archaeology

Endangered Archaeology: Using Remote Sensing to Protect Cultural Heritage

Multilingual online course that teaches how to access and use satellite imagery to document heritage sites. Available in English, French, Arabic, and Farsi.

https://eamena.org/mooc-1-endangered-archaeology-using-remote-sensing-protect-cultural-heritage

Digital Storytelling Webinar

Digital Storytelling Webinar

Webinar held on 14/03/2023 on Digital Storytelling in the Global South: Utilizing Spatial Archives for Diverse Audiences

https://www.metsemegologolo.org.za/wordpress/digital-storytelling/neh-ahrc-digital-storytelling-webinar/