Category Archives: digital storytelling

Call for Speakers: DS7 #digitalstorytelling festival in Wales

The organisers of the DS7 digital storytelling festival in Wales have a new website and there’s a call for speakers. Here are the details from the site: “If you would like to contribute to the festival, please email klewis (at) … Continue reading

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New local TV station in Wales wants your films and digital stories

Today – 31 January 2012 – 3VTV is launched. It’s a local internet-based TV channel for the three valleys that make up Blaenau Gwent in south Wales, UK. On the website there are videos made by 3VTV themselves as well … Continue reading

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Date of DS7 #digitalstorytelling festival announced by George Ewart Evans Centre for Storytelling

I’ve just had this note from Karen Lewis, project lead of StoryWorks and co-director of the George Ewart Evans Centre for Storytelling: “The seventh annual Digital Storytelling festival is happening in Cardiff this year, not Aberystwyth. It will be hosted … Continue reading

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Using your mobile phone as a digital storytelling tool

My friend Bethan is planning a workshop to train artists and business people in using their mobile phones to tell stories about the work they do and she asked me for some ideas. I had a chat and then sent … Continue reading

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Designing a New Media Forest of Japan

Japanese participatory media research group MELL Platz is conducting a public research seminar “Designing A New Media Forest of Japan: From Civic Generated Narratives and Memories of Post 3.11″ on 10 December 2011 Continue reading

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Digital Story explaining why the Poppy is the symbol of Remembrance

Ray Thompson made this digital story for Breaking Barriers. He’s the man we have to thank for the list of names of fallen soldiers on the Bargoed War Memorial. Ray is a Caerphilly 50+ Forum member; thanks to Mandy Sprague … Continue reading

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Digital Storytelling as a marketing tool

This post is about how audio storytelling has been used to publicise a radio play. On Friday, I attended an industry screening by Cyfle’s Digital Delta multiplatform writers. Cyfle began as a training organisation for TV in Wales and – … Continue reading

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Relato Digital Storytelling in Spain

I heard today (via @jorech) about the International Conference on Digital Storytelling – Relato Digital Storytelling – at the University of Valentia, Spain, 21-23 March 2012. The main speakers are: Bernard Robin, University of Houston, USA, on the educational uses … Continue reading

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Developing the one-hour digital storytelling form, with a video example

I’ve been piloting the one-hour digital storytelling form I want to present at the #storycamp get-together in Ludlow on Saturday (1 Oct 2011). (If the embedded video won’t play, here’s a link to it on blip.tv) Here are the ingredients: … Continue reading

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Digital Storytelling Pod Ep01-How to make a DS on iPad with Barrie Stephenson

This is the first episode of a new monthly audio podcast for digital storytellers: Digital Storytelling Pod with Gareth Morlais. dspod-ep01.mp3 Barrie Stevenson of Digistories sums up his experiences of using iPad v2 to help people make digital stories. This … Continue reading

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