Entries Tagged as 'digital storytelling'
1. how will you address consents?
Privacy laws in the UK are more relaxed than in other countries like France. Setting laws to one side, ask yourself: if that was me/my child in that story, would I be happy?
2. who will own the copyright of the finished stories and will exhibition licences be explicitly attached?
Seems such […]
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August 15th, 2010 · 1 Comment
Wouldn’t it be great if you could pop in to get some expert help and make your own digital story while shopping in town? Well, during August 2010, if you’re lucky enough to live in Newcastle in the north-east of England, you can. Culture Shop is Culture Shock’s empty shop arts project which not only […]
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August 13th, 2010 · 1 Comment
Glamorgan GATES is looking for a digital storytelling tutor for its www.merthyrstories.org project. Thanks to Karen Lewis of StoryWorks for passing this on to me. Here’s the text of the message:
Glamorgan GATES is looking for a digital storytelling tutor for our merthyrstories.org project. Our current tutor is moving on. We have a core group of […]
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August 2nd, 2010 · 1 Comment
Some great news: the Breaking Barriers Community Arts digital storytelling project, based in south-east Wales, has just had confirmation of funding from the Coalfields Regeneration Trust. This is of major importance to digital storytelling in Wales.
So now Breaking Barriers is recruiting three people to take the project on to its next strides between now and […]
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I went to the screening last night at the Atrium in Cardiff of 13 new digital stories, made to be exhibited at The Cardiff Story - a museum about the city which opens in autumn 2010.
The stories were broadly all on the theme of the views about Cardiff of people living in the Valleys of […]
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1. Telling your story in a straight line
2. Fancy video effects
3. A less than perfect voice recording
4. Corny visual cliches
5. Nothing but show and tell
6. Twee rhyming poetry
7. Using other people’s stuff
As you can see as you follow the links, I’m doing a little recycling here because the individual articles are reprised. But this is […]
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Digital stories about bush fires in Australia are now being used as learning materials in that country’s schools. There are ten stories about natural disasters like fire and flood - all based on actual experiences. There’s also a freely-downloadable pack for teachers. The digital stories were facilitated by ACMI, the Australian Centre for the Moving […]
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Do you know of examples of media forms that mix home movies with digital storytelling to add a personal-viewpoint narration to a home movie? If you do, please can you add a link to the comments below? (Don’t worry about the error message when you send the comment; I seem to be picking up all […]
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Interesting new multi-format digital storytelling about ‘place’ project - and it’s here in Cardiff. I’m looking forward to finding out more:
The background is in this WalesOnline news report.
The organisers (including Helia Phoenix, Roath) have already staged an empty shop project in town:
via Google news alerts
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A review of the DS5 digital storytelling conference in Wales with Joe Lambert, Culture Shock, Historias Digitales del Uruguay…
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I’ve written about BBC Cymru Wales’s PS site before. PS now has a brand new sister site for teachers. As producer Nia M Davies says PS for Teachers is all about using personal stories to “engage young people aged 14-19 in Personal and Social Education.” It’s a bilingual site, in English and Welsh. Topics tackled […]
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Spanning the UK and Cape Town, University of Surrey Digital World Research Centre is advertising a Research Fellowship in Digital Storytelling. This could be the best digital storytelling opportunities I’ve ever heard of because:
- you’ll get to model and produce digital story forms that are most suitable for the intended local audiences/producers/participants by working with […]
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I’m working at the Urdd National Eisteddfod - a major European youth festival - in Aberaeron, Wales, this week. Colleagues from the BBC Welsh-language children’s news programme Ffeil have been recording viewers’ stories using an adapted London black taxi cab as an experiment here. It’s not something they’ve built themselves; it’s been hired in.
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Joe Lambert of CDS just emailed some news that will be of interest to digital storytellers in the UK, Europe and beyond:
1. Joe’s giving the keynote at DS5 - the fifth Digital Storytelling Conference - in Aberystwyth, Wales, on Wednesday 16 June 2010. The cost is GBP15. http://www.dscymru.org.uk/
2 There’s a CDS Digital Storytelling workshop from […]
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I was asked a question on Twitter yesterday by @katycom1972:
@digitalst Would like to explore digital storytelling with my 2nd graders. Any tips on getting started? We use a MAC/Imovie 9. Thx!
It’s incredibly difficult to fit any sensible advice into 140 characters. What I really wanted to say was:
it’s the […]
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April 23rd, 2010 · 1 Comment
That’s the question Hanne Jones and Eli Lea from Flimmer Film asked as they went from door to door at old people’s homes in Norway. The answers they were given were as different as the people they met.
‘My Days’ is a collection of 37 memories told by people between the ages of 79 and 104. […]
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Alan Thomas is a seasoned traveller. We first met at a BBC Capture Wales workshop in Haverfordwest, Wales, and we’ve met a few times since then too .. at DS4 and at BBC Wales and it’s always good to catch up. Alan has a condition called cerebellar ataxia which affects movement, balance and speech. Ever […]
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Delivered on April 28, Pontypridd, Wales, by Gilly Adams and Georgie Meadows, who say:
“To be effective practitioners and offer compassionate and good care, we need to be able to see each patient as a special and unique individual…Using pictures as our starting point, we will explore how we can be more aware of the stories […]
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I had a query recently from Liz Milner, Bristol, via Mandy Rose, asking about digital storytelling in Scandinavia and northern Europe. Here’s a list of the ones I could think of; please feel free to add others using Comments:
Hanne Jones, Christer Fasmer and Eli Lea of Digital Fortellinger . See also the end of this […]
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Great to see Love Letters to the Future nominated for this year’s SXSW Interactive Awards:
One of the notes sealed inside the time capsule is:
“Please, you have to keep doing what we could not finish” by Manuela, Argentina
http://www.loveletterstothefuture.com/
Another notable nomination is:
http://sketch.odopod.com
This is an addictive and therapeutic web sketcher with a lovely feel and texture to the […]
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