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Links to
Storytelling Websites
www.storynet.org
The National Storytelling
Network's homepage with information about the Network, the National
Storytelling Festival, Tellabration, a calendar of storytelling
events, a national storyteller directory and more.
www.storyarts.org
Maintained by storyteller
Heather Forest, this is an excellent site for teachers. There are
texts of stories for retelling, as well as classroom lesson plans and
activities involving storytelling.
www.storyconnection.net
Constructed by
storyteller Dianne de La Casas, this site is a great resource for
educators. It has storytelling activities for groups and classrooms,
a storytelling library, information about workshops and links to other
storytelling sites.
www.tellabration.org
This site is maintained by
the National Storytelling Network and is devoted to the annual
international storytelling event known as Tellabration. Contains
information about hosting your own Tellabration.
www.timsheppard.co.uk/story
Storytelling "Frequently
Asked Questions" a website based in England, containing advice,
resources and links in abundance.
www.creatingthe21stcentury.org
An excellent page for looking at storytelling in a
new way. This site explores how the corperate world is putting
storytelling to use and reaping rewards.
www.eldrbarry.net/roos/eest.htm
Effective Storytelling; a manual for beginners with
good basic information and also includes some great links to other sites
and points out more storytelling resources.
www.storycenter.org
A new take on storytelling: Digital Storytelling.
Bringing storytelling into the twenty-first century this site defines
and gives examples of digital storytelling (and uses in the classroom).
They are re-vamping a classic for a new generation - worth
checking out. External resources also listed.
www.aaronshep.com/storytelling/bookshelf
This site has some great links to more pages, books
and anthologies of stories.
www.story-lovers.com/listsofstories
If you get stuck and can’t pick a story to tell this
site may be a great story-tellers-block-breaker! Stories and anthologies
are arranged by: topic, age group, grade level and cultural origin.
Although full texts of the stories are NOT provided, this site can get
you thinking and set you off to find the right book, there are also many
performance ideas included.
www.ultimate-storytelling-guide.com/index
One of the most important aspects of storytelling is
the power it has as an oral history. This site has many great links and
articles, and also has a really great section on how to go about
collecting oral histories and family narratives.
www.proteacher.com/070163.shtml
This page has links to many web-articles on how to
use storytelling as a teacher in the classroom in many different ways.
www.falcon.jmu.edu/~ramseyil/storyhandbook
Outlines the basics of how to tell stories
effectively. Great “References and Bibliography” section that will
point you to many amazing books.
www.dreamtime.net.au/index.cfm
This site contains video of stories. The focus is on
aboriginal dreamtime stories; text and audio are also available (quality
isn’t great and you need real player to access videos)
Storytelling Events Nationwide
and Worldwide:
www.storynet.org/Events/index.html
A calendar of national
storytelling events maintained by the National Storytelling Network.
www.storyteller.net
This site contains
interviews with storytellers, articles on storytelling, a national
directory of storytellers and storytelling events, and links to
audiofeeds of storytellers weaving their tales for your enjoyment.
www.wwu.edu/~rvohs/WAstoryevents
A calendar of storytelling
events in Washington State, maintained by Rosemary Vohs, the
Washington State liaison for the National Storytelling Network.
Storytelling Courses
at Colleges and Universities:
Storytelling Course List
This is a world-wide list of
courses in and or about storytelling, taught at colleges and
universities.
Storytelling books and
bibliographies:
Storytelling (oral Narrative) Bibliographies
An extensive bibliography of
storytelling materials from practical guides for parents to scholarly
works on the subject. (as of Jan '07 there seems to be
access problems to this site)
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