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Entries from October 2008

End of workshop photo

October 22nd, 2008 · No Comments

You can tell how well a workshop went by looking at the end-of-workshop photo. This one was taken at the end of the first Media Conté Workshop where media exprimo and Aichi Shukutoku University worked with teenagers in Kani, Gifu Prefecture, in the centre of Japan’s largest island.
Kani is well known for its car manufacturing. […]

Popularity: 14% [?]

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Tags: japan · empowerment · digital storytelling

What a museum is

October 13th, 2008 · No Comments

Museums used to be buildings that housed artefacts. The experts contextualised these objects by writing historically-accurate interpretations of their meaning. Visitors used to enter museums to absorb this.
How often have you looked at objects in museums and thought that the meaning an object has to you is different to the one conveyed by the museum’s […]

Popularity: 17% [?]

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Tags: media literacy · empowerment · digital storytelling

National Older People’s Day stories

October 3rd, 2008 · No Comments

Digital Stories available to watch again on BBC iPlayer until the middle of next week:
“To celebrate National Older People’s Day and to change some outdated stereotypes on ageing, a collection of short stories written, recorded, edited and produced by people living in Wales.”
This is a link for people reading this in the UK only, sorry, […]

Popularity: 20% [?]

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Tags: Wales · empowerment · digital storytelling