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Digital storytelling on the high street

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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Tags: education · museums · inclusion · media literacy · empowerment · digital storytelling

Telling your story in a taxi cab

June 3rd, 2010 · No Comments

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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Tags: media literacy · museums · Wales · technology · empowerment · story · digital storytelling

How storytelling is saving hundreds of lives in Welsh hospitals

May 24th, 2010 · 1 Comment

“I was back in the hospital having my dressing changed after an operation. I’d had a lot of stitches. The nurse arrived with a pen in her mouth. She took off my old dressing and ran the pen which had been in her mouth along my chest to check all the stitches. After changing my […]

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Tags: citizenship · Wales · story · empowerment

“What has been important for you in your life?”

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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StoryWorks: Looking for the Story workshop

March 25th, 2010 · No Comments

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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Tags: inclusion · education · Wales · story · empowerment · instruction · digital storytelling

Breaking Barriers Digital Storytelling screening in South Wales

January 12th, 2010 · No Comments

‘Same Place; Different Routes’ digital stories are being screened by Breaking Barriers at Llanhilleth Institute on Thursday 28th January 2010 at 7pm.
‘Same Place; Different Routes’ has three strands examining the experiences of:

recent migrants to Wales and people who moved here some years ago,
different generations living together in the Valleys
people with a range of mental health […]

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Tags: media literacy · inclusion · Wales · story · empowerment · digital storytelling

Community Voices digital media grants

December 4th, 2009 · 2 Comments

Digital storytellers will be interested to hear that one £500 award per week is available between now and March 2010. That’s what Community Voices has to offer those in England using digital media to help empower disadvantaged communities:
“Media Trust is always looking to celebrate the varied and inspiring ways you are using digital media to […]

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BBC - understand, participate in and influence

November 20th, 2009 · No Comments

Inform, educate and entertain was the old Reithian view of the BBC. Whilst continuing to be a worthwhile mission, it does sound a little ‘paternal’ or top-down for today’s world. It was refreshing to hear a new personal view of what the BBC needs to do today from Seetha Kumar - online access champion and […]

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PS

November 19th, 2009 · 1 Comment

This is a site by BBC Wales with personal stories by 14-25 year olds. In PS, you can submit and watch videos categorized Health, Entertainment, Education, Religion, News & Politics, Environment, Love & Sex, Animals, Race & Culture, Crime & Violence, Business & Economy, Sports, Life, Drugs & Alcohol, Science & Technology, Community & Society […]

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Participatory Video Facebook group

November 18th, 2009 · No Comments

George Metaxiotis sent me an invite from Greece today to join the PV:RF Participatory Video Facebook group. It’s described as “a networking forum for anyone involved in participatory video research - especially community based research.” So I wanted to share the link with you here:
http://tr.im/FcCq
The group’s only three months old but it already looks like […]

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Free presentation: Sustaining and Developing Island Communities

November 13th, 2009 · 2 Comments

Wed 2 Dec 09, 1 pm at the Tramsheds Building, Glyntaff Campus, University of Glamorgan, Treforest, Mid Glamorgan.
Prof Do Coyle of the University of Aberdeen, Scotland, presents ‘Sustaining and Developing Island Communities: Extreme Measures for Extreme Communities’.
This presentation is about ‘extreme’ communities where the digital infrastructure is lacking.  Prof Dyle will look at different kinds […]

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RTS Innovation Awards 2009

November 11th, 2009 · No Comments

BBC iPlayer won the main Judges’ Award at last night’s RTS Innovation Awards.
I was there with Karen Lewis because BBC Digital Storytelling had been nominated in the user generated content category along with Channel 4’s Landshare and The Sex Experience. Landshare won in this category.
It was great to see Karen Lewis for the first time […]

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Tags: media literacy · mobile · empowerment · digital storytelling

Contributors or Collaborators?

October 19th, 2009 · No Comments

For 15+ years, Mandy Rose has been a champion for the individual as author/publisher. Tomorrow night, she delivers an RTS (Royal Television Society) talk called Contributors or Collaborators  . This is timely as the web’s shift from publication/communication to collaboration/social interactivity lends itself to collaboration in documentary forms. Mandy commissions multi-platform productions at BBC Wales and is […]

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Moving image archive meets personal story

July 15th, 2009 · No Comments

Here’s more about how we worked with people who had stories to tell about what the heritage of the Rhondda Valleys in Wales  means to them in Valleys Kids’ Rhondda Lives project. This post follows a question from Cheryl Colan:
“…Did the individual storytellers work with and direct the video editor? If they spent only 2 […]

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Hyperlocal freelancing opportunities

July 15th, 2009 · No Comments

$14,000 per annum is one local blogger’s estimate of how much he’ll earn in the coming year by covering local stories. Seattle blogger Justin Carder does the math(s) on this page.
Justin is one of the speakers at the free Portland Oregon Digital Journalism Camp - Saturday, August 1 at The Oregonian, 1320 SW Broadway, Portland, […]

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Coromandel Digital Stories, New Zealand

July 1st, 2009 · No Comments

“It excites me that I can be part of this new age.  Words, pictures and music if anything can lift the sprite and engender enthusiasm” - Joan van Oosterom (87)
More than 70 Digital Stories have been produced since the project started in January 2008 by the Coromandel Community Digital Storytelling Project. It’s an initiative to record, preserve, […]

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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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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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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. […]

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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 […]

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