How to Share Your Digital Stories

Digital Storytelling for @StateDept Exchange Alumni

Mindy McAdamsProfessor, University of Florida

Fulbright Senior Scholar:Indonesia 2011–2012Malaysia 2004–2005

How do you share stories?

1. Follow news sources.

2. Find and share links to news.

Upload any PowerPoint to SlideShare and allow people to view it online.

Upload any PowerPoint to SlideShare and allow people to view it online. You can also allow downloads.

An easy-to-use micro-blogging platform — with no word limit! And you can post pictures!

In Tumblr, you have a dashboard (above).

< Choose Text, Photo, etc., and then add your content.

The Washington Post used Storify as part of its coverage of this news event (March 16, 2012).

All of the quotes and photos came from Twitter.

Sign up for Storify (free) at storify.com and make a “Storify” immediately

The icons at the top enable you to quickly find and add items from popular social media

sites.

Example: After selecting

YouTube, a search for syria

(18 March 2012)

SoundCloud makes it easy to upload and share audio files.

Each audio file has its own page, its own URL.And people can leave comments too.

You can record directly into SoundCloud if you have a microphone attached to your computer. You can store up to 2 hours of audio, free.

How will you share your story?

http://storify.com/macloo/digital-storytelling-

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Mindy McAdamsProfessor, University of Florida

Twitter: @macloommcadams@gmail.com

http://mindymcadams.com