Publishing Digital Video Online
How will you publish your video? Online or on DVD?
Here are the most popular places to to publish digital stories online using one of the video sharing sites
http://www.youtube.com (10 minute maximum video length -- a very public space... OK for your students, but you might not like to post there)
http://teachertube.com or http://schooltube.com (two video hosting sites especially for schools)
http://video.google.com (a little less public, well integrated with other Google tools, only available through GoogleApps for Education)
http://blip.tv/ (I have a group of movies stored there: http://eportfolios.blip.tv/ )
http://ourmedia.org (a community of individuals dedicated to spreading grassroots creativity: videos, podcasts and other works of personal media)
http://www.fliggo.com/ (25 minutes maximum video limit under Basic account, upgrades available for fee)
Here are some tutorials on how to share these stories with each other
How to Upload a Video to YouTube (2 minute YouTube video)
How to upload a file To Blip.tv (6 minute Blip.tv video)
Here are some tutorials on Publishing Digital Video on DVD
The University of Houston has published a tutorial on creating a DVD using Sonic MyDVD on Windows.
Windows DVD Maker Beginner's Tutorial (Windows Vista)
Apple tutorial on how to Create a DVD using iDVD on a Macintosh
Evaluating Digital Stories
Digital stories should be evaluated using strategies similar to other multimedia projects, both on content and presentation. Bernard Robin of the University of Houston has created a great web site that covers this topic. As an example of a rubric to evaluate digital stories, here is a rubric developed by Scott County Schools (Kentucky) and published on RubiStar.