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Digital Storytelling: Capturing Lives Creating Community

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This book is a gift to all of us who seek to tell our stories and those of our families and our communities. Excellent chapters on capturing memories, storyboarding, and digital filmmaking. Filmmakers, educators, media artists, oral historians, and genealogists will all find a treasure trove of accessible information --- and powerful, motivating stories.

Joe Lambert's new edition of this book had been very useful to me on a subject (digital storytelling) where not much is available. Creating personal stories has been a very moving experience for me, and this book has helped clarify how to go about it. The stories included in the beginnings of the chapters ended up inspiring me to FLY through the book, so that i could get started already ! The format was clean and clear, with interviews, stories, quotes, photos and boxed sections. I recommend this book if you are interested in getting your story out into the world.

I purchased this book for a college course. I was so excited to receive it that I started reading right away, though classes hadn't started yet. I threw it down, disappointed, at the third glaring typo/grammatical error by page 10. I have trouble relying on the work of an author who cannot be bothered to abide by common rules of language. I will share my disappointment with both my professor and my learning institute.