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Entries from April 2009

Brymbo workshops

April 26th, 2009 · No Comments

Rural Wrexham Digital Storytelling is running a series of digital storytelling workshops between 27 April - 12 May. The project is being co-ordinated by Northern Marches Cymru with support from staff and students at Yale College.The Brymbo workshops will run on April 27 and 28, May 5, 11 and 2.
Details from Clare Lightfoot on 01978 […]

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Tags: media literacy · Wales · story · digital storytelling

Cardiff City FC – Kick into Reading

April 16th, 2009 · No Comments

There’s a programme about storytelling on BBC TWO Wales in May that sounds interesting. Here’s the advance publicity:
In a unique project Cardiff City FC*, Cardiff Library Services, and the George Ewart Evans Centre for Storytelling, Atrium - each with new homes in the nation’s capital just opened or about to open – tell and teach […]

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Tags: media literacy · Wales · story

StoryWorks workshop, May, Cardiff

April 14th, 2009 · No Comments

StoryWorks has been established to support public service organisations interested in using people’s stories to improve what they do. It’s based at the University of Glamorgan’s Welsh Institute for Health and Social Care and led by Karen Lewis, former Capture Wales project producer, who says: “Stories offer huge potential to reveal what people really experience […]

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Tags: media literacy · Wales · story · instruction · digital storytelling

Aberystwyth DS4 Festival advance details

April 14th, 2009 · No Comments

Here are the latest details about the fourth annual festival of digital storytelling in Aberystwyth, Wales, on Wednesday 17 June 2009, from a press release from Aberystwyth Arts Centre:
Following on from the success of DS3 the fourth festival of Digital Storytelling DS4 aims to inspire and encourage and show the exciting possibilities of Digital Storytelling […]

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Tags: media literacy · DS Cymru · tips · Wales · story · empowerment · instruction · digital storytelling

Two ages of media literacy

April 14th, 2009 · No Comments

Reinforcement of the importance of creation* in media literacy today by Jason Ohler:

Media Literacy 1.0 - the era of mass media - concerns the ability to identify and evaluate the techniques of media persuasion.
Media Literacy 2.0 - the era of digital participation - the ability to identify, evaluate and apply the techniques of media persuasion.

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Tags: media literacy · empowerment · digital storytelling

Coming together to fold

April 11th, 2009 · No Comments

Papurau Bro are Welsh-language local newspapers written by, edited by, folded & stapled and distributed by community members. They’ve thrived for three decades or more and I’d say that digital storytelling in Wales has drawn inspiration from the spirit of Papurau Bro.
In my current role as executive producer of www.bbc.co.uk/cymru I was interviewed recently by […]

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Registration Open for Obidos DS Conference, Portugal

April 6th, 2009 · No Comments

http://www.storycenter.org/obidos.html
“While we have most of the speakers arranged, we have created a 1 hour 15 minute session on Saturday afternoon for participants to sign up to briefly present projects, known as Five Minutes of Fame.  If you want to briefly bring your work in DS to the larger group, this will be […]

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Tags: digital storytelling

Early announcement of DS4 Digital Storytelling Festival

April 3rd, 2009 · No Comments

DS4, Aberystwyth Arts Centre, Wednesday 17 June 2009. Updates to follow.
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Tags: DS Cymru · media literacy · Wales · digital storytelling