Here’s a powerful and moving digital story by Jaimie from the Banyan Tree’s Taking Root project in which Asian and Pacific Islanders share stories about how HIV affects them. You can read about how digital storytelling and Twitter discussions were combined on this page by thebody.com.
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Storybird is working on multilingual story-sharing
I was delighted to read the news in Guardian Education about “E-publishing and digital storytelling” They say Storybird harnesses “the power of great art to stimulate creative thoughts and writing and could be used in any language”. Well, now Storybird is working on a soultion. It would be great to see, for example, Welsh-language stories being made and shared on this platform. The Guardian also gives honourable mentions to the Book Creator app and to Puppet Pals, Sock Puppets and Strip Design where students can design and make their own comic strips.
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What would a montage of one second of video filmed every day of your life look like?
1 Second Everyday – Age 30 from Cesar Kuriyama on Vimeo. Cesar Kuriyama crowdfunded this app which helps you shoot a second of video a day. When you stitch all the bits together, you end up with a jerky but compelling patchwork quilt of your days. I heard of this via @ess_dubbwya on Twitter.
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Running a personal storytelling workshop with a large group
This article is about running a storytelling workshop with a large group. Canadian digital storyteller Kent Manning contacted Barrie Stephenson and I recently with a question: “I’m conducting a digital storytelling session next month for a group of 26 educators. I value the story circle part of the process as this is the way I was taught by the folks at CDS. Would you have any suggestions for conducting story circle time with such a large group? Would you have individuals share their stories with the large group? Small group sharing perhaps?” Here’s what I suggest: 26 is a big group. You could either split it into three and hold…