Joe Lambert founded the Center for Digital Storytelling (now StoryCenter) in 1994. He and his colleagues developed a computer training and arts program known as the digital storytelling workshop. Joe and his staff have traveled the world to spread the practice of digital storytelling, to all 50 U.S. states and some 48 countries. Lambert is author of Seven Stages: Story and the Human Experience (Digital Diner Press). In 2017, he celebrated his 34th year as an Executive Director of StoryCentre, having evolved his work in the 1980s in the performing arts to work in digital storytelling and media education in the 1990s.

Brooke Hessler is Director of Learning Resources at California College of the Arts, where she teaches multimodal inquiry and writing. Her scholarship has appeared in the International Journal of the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning, Community Literacy Journal, Writing Groups Inside and Outside the Classroom, A Guide to Composition Pedagogies, and Digital Storytelling in Higher Education: International Perspectives, among other journals and collections. An award-winning instructor of media arts-integrated courses, her digital story work has included long-term collaborations with K-16 educators, community arts activists, museums, and survivors of natural disasters and domestic terrorism.

Chapter 1 ¿ The Work of Story

Chapter 2 ¿ Stories of Our Lives

Interlude 1: The Legacy of Tanya

Chapter 3 ¿ A Road Traveled: The Evolution of the Digital Storytelling Practice

Chapter 4 ¿ The World of Digital Storytelling

Interlude 2: Wynne's Story

Chapter 5 ¿ Seven Steps of Digital Storytelling

Chapter 6 ¿ The Story Circle

Chapter 7 ¿ To Students: Getting Started in Digital Story Work: Mindsets and Methods

Interlude 3: ¿lmiye¿s Story by Burcu ¿im¿ek

Chapter 8 ¿ Approaches to the Scripting Process: Prompts and Processes

Chapter 9 ¿The Walking Story Circle: Rethinking Digital Storytelling in the Era of Mobile Devices

Interlude 4: Areej's Story by Nikoline Lohmann

Chapter 10 ¿ Storyboarding

Chapter 11 ¿ Designing in Digital: Working With Digital Imaging, Audio, and Video

Interlude 5: Nellie's Story by Rani Sanderson

Chapter 12 ¿ Distribution, Ethics, and the Politics of Engagement

Chapter 13 ¿ Applications of Digital Storytelling

Interlude 6: Zahid's Story

Chapter 14 ¿ Silence Speaks: Interview With Amy Hill

Chapter 15 ¿ Listening To Change: Stories From Alaskäs Native Health Communities: Interview With Laura Revels

Chapter 16 ¿ Humanizing Healthcare: A Conversation With Dr. Pip Hardy and Tony Sumner

Chapter 17 ¿ Transforming Education Through Story Work: A Conversation With Dr. Brooke Hessler

Addendum: Silence Speaks: Guidelines for Ethical Practice