Mary Hess

Surely one element of “storying faith” includes “storying peace,” a profound project for photographer John Noltner.  He has been exploring the meaning of peace, one story at a time. His website, book, and exhibition hold a wealth of stories with gorgeous photos of the storytellers accompanying them.

Storytelling can be profoundly powerful — powerful enough to change the ways in which we see each other. Geek Club Books is a nonprofit devoted to using storytelling to engage autism. They have a ton of useful resources on their website, as well as support for younger writers.

I didn’t realize until recently that there are games that help people to tell stories. Here’s a great introduction to this genre!

MindShift has created a handy list of apps which function well in digital storytelling classrooms. I’ve only used a few of them, Adobe Voice and Evernote, but I like those two enough to want to check out the rest of these. I have also been hearing good things about Nutshell.

Here’s useful advice for telling powerful stories about your nonprofit organization.

While these are not stories of faith, per se, here is an interesting project which paired students with veterans at a local VA hospital to tell digital stories.

Here’s a useful handout with some tips for approaching biblical storytelling well with children.

UC Berkeley has a very thoughtful tutorial up, broken into multiple parts, exploring how to do multimedia storytelling.

Ever wonder about the power of story, developing brains, and the net? Here’s a brief digital excerpt to ponder:

There is a great new site available out of USC Annenberg that offers a ton of resources — including a huge number of media clips — for engaging popular media with critical intelligence.