Gathering of Digital Storytellers 2006

In an effort to continue sharing resources and knowledge, we're hoping to keep track of the resources and websites referenced in the sessions of this Gathering. So if you have a link to share, email Danielle (danielle.martin at umb dot edu) or comment to this entry!

Opening Session: Making an Impact

Project Think Different

Sites for distribution:
CurrentTV
YouTube
Google Video
Flickr

Arts Engine - larger organization
Media That Matters Festival - curated social issue media festival; now can see all previous years' films streamed online, with context.
MediaRights.org - become a member, and you can post movies and get newsletter

Outreach & Impact Worksheet (Coming soon!)
example from Close to Home, Dorchester MA

Concurrent Session: Youth

T.O.L.D's beat making tool: Mad Player
Dean's MOSAIC video blog

Technical Nuts & Bolts

Jen (Bay Area Video Coalition) - Coming Soon: Tech Rec's doc

Christefano - Open Source examples:
Mozilla Firefox - web browser
Red Hat - open operating system on the $100 Laptop
Open Office - alternate to MS Office
Drupal, Civic Space or Plone - website content managment systems
Fantastico - install software on server with easy interface
Dynebolic - to run Linux off a CD for PC's; especially good for old machines (even Pentium 1 with 64MB memory)
Jahshaka - open source real time editor
Ubuntu - most popular Linux distribution

JaModi - Free Software options:
Audacity - audio editing (free)
Windows Movie Maker or iMovie
Tech 4 Learning
Avid Free DV Version
MS Photo Story 3
Garage Band (mac)

Also, keep checking Jamodi's DEG Production video blog (http://mo20d.blogspot.com/) for how to videos.

DVD Rendering:
Sony DVD Architect 3.0
iDVD
Nero
DVD Studio Pro (mac)
VisualHub - $
Isquint (free) - save to H264

Compression hints:
Dean Gransar's Curriculum (last page)
Quicktime Pro
Current TV Survival Guide
Secrets of Videoblogging (book) RyanEdit.blogspot.com

Also check out the Do It Yourself Media Toolkit (by Morgan Sully, CTC VISTA @ The San Diego Community Technology Coalition) - list of open source digital media application

PHOTOS!
Upload your photos from the event to Flickr and tag them as " gatheringofdigitalstorytellers " or join the Digital Storytelling group.