ABSTRACT
This chapter focuses on the digital storytellers and the storytelling process and provides guide for how to navigate on-site visits and research. Feedback from the digital storytellers indicates that they need around four hours to conduct on-site research. It gives them enough time to become familiar with major parts of the site’s collections and to brainstorm ideas for their introductory videos and feature digital stories. Educators worked together as a class to create a checklist of important elements for effective introductory videos. The list is organically generated in class after they have watched and analyzed several introductory videos. By the time the storytellers arrive at their chosen historical site or organization, they will have participated in whole-class team building, written a community history paper together, and brainstormed about the stories they might tell based on information about their collections. In digital stories, the audience can be as broad as the world or as narrow as the groups that create them.
