Digital storytelling involves combining narrative with digital content to create a short movie. Digital stories can include interactive movies with highly produced audio and visual effects or presentation slides with narration or music. Some learning theorists believe that as a pedagogical technique, storytelling can be effectively applied to nearly any subject. Constructing a narrative and communicating it effectively require one to think carefully about the topic and the audience’s perspective.

Link: http://www.educause.edu/ELI/7ThingsYouShouldKnowAboutDigit/156824

Screencast-o-Matic and ScreenToaster are screen capturing utilities that are based on Java and other web-technologies. That means that they can be used from any computer with a Java-enabled browser. Jing is another example of such a tool that can be installed on both Max OSX and Windows.

Screen capturing utilities are most commonly used for narrating over visuals, creating screen casts and tutorials, and sharing them.

Link: http://www.screencast-o-matic.com/
Link: http://www.screentoaster.com/
Link: http://www.jingproject.com/

Geolocation, also called geotagging, is the practice of associating a digital resource with a physical location. A photographer, for example, might include the longitude and latitude coordinates for where a picture was taken, allowing others to pinpoint that location on a map. Increasingly, geolocation is being applied to infrastructure components and end-user devices for the purpose of knowing where people are. This additional layer of location data can make resources much more useful to a broad range of users.

Link: http://www.educause.edu/node/163157

Librarians at the Bothell, Seattle, and Tacoma campuses (Laura Barrett, Justin Wadland, and Amanda Hornby) collaborated on a guide that highlights the UW Libraries image databases, recommends websites that provide images free for educational use, and provides useful information on citing images and on copyright compliance. Image collections include: UW collections, general collections, advertising, architecture, art, history, maps, medicine, photography, and science.

Link: http://www.lib.washington.edu/types/images/