Rancho Cucamonga of the Past – Digital Storytelling
Rancho Cucamonga Library was awarded a “California of the Past – Digital Storytelling” grant from the California State Library. As the name implies, Digital Storytelling refers to ordinary people using digital tools to tell their own real-life stories in a new and different way . . . through visual arts – a mixture of computer-based images, text, recorded audio narration, video clips and/or music.
As with traditional storytelling, most digital storytelling focuses on a specific topic and contains a particular point of view. Each unique story becomes a part of the larger shared history of the community.
Daniel Meadows describes digital storytelling as “multimedia sonnets from the people” in which “photographs discover the talkies, and the stories told assemble in the ether as pieces of a jigsaw puzzle, a gaggle of invisible histories which, when viewed together, tell the bigger story of our time, the story that defines who we are.”
Check Out This Example of Digital Storytelling
The Rancho Cucamonga Library is looking for local history – Do you have a story that you would like to tell about a person, place, event, or personal experience about of coming to Rancho Cucamonga? If so, you will want to call the Rancho Cucamonga Library at (909) 477-2720 x5064 or x5031 for more information. They are about to begin digital storytelling (by appointment only) on Wednesdays between 10am and 5 p.m. at the Paul A. Biane Library.
For more information about the statewide program, visit www.digitalstorystation.com.
Join the collection of Rancho Cucamonga Stories from California’s Past.
Help the Library expand our local history resources.
