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Gareth Morlais
Aberth Digital Storytelling blog was started in 2006 by Gareth Morlais - @digitalst on Twitter - who's been digital storytelling in Wales since 2001. Views are Gareth's own. More backround....
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Latest Comments- Comment on Working with groups of more than ten people on their personal stories by Gareth MorlaisI think you're right Kent. Mutual trust is needed for the sharing of personal true stories. I also like the way people often come to a workshop with a firm idea of the story they're going to tell and then end up telling a completely different one, because of something that happened in the story circle. […]
- Comment on Working with groups of more than ten people on their personal stories by @KentManningGareth, Thanks for this post! Now others will benefit from your suggestions. There is something to be said for activities that break down any barriers folks may have. Once barriers are down and stories start flowing, the possibilities are many. Participants in some cases choose a completely different topic during the session or modify their writing along the […]
- Comment on DS7 digital storytelling conference review 2012 by srcloudHi Gareth, A while ago you were kind enough to say some nice things about a story I published on Cowbird (entitled, 'I heard you'). I have decided to throw caution to the wind and to try to become the writer I always wanted to be (cripes!). To this end, I quit my job 5 months ago and I've set up a blog to, amongst other things, discuss my expe […]
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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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Tokyo: New Horizons of Digital Storytelling
Mell Expo 2011 in Tokyo on the weekend of 19 & 20 March 2011. Continue reading
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Coming together to fold
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 … Continue reading
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End of workshop photo
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 … Continue reading
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Tribute forms
“How can people participate without necessarily having to be centre stage?” That’s a question I’ve been asking myself ever since discussing digital storytelling with a colleague, Grahame Davies, last year. My experience of Digital Stories is that they’re usually personal. … Continue reading
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Unknown Shonan
I’ve observed that working on stories in a group usually helps individuals to improve their story and I love watching how stories are improved, thanks to the group dynamics. That’s one of the reasons digital storytelling works so well as … Continue reading
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Tokyo Video Scrapbook
Tokyo and Mell Expo 2008 were absolutely mindblowing. A more considered summary of Mell Expo 2008 will follow. For now, with music by B’z, is a montage of (Ricoh) images and (Nokia N93) video clips that capture the flavour of … Continue reading
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Tokyo Mell Expo 2008 presentation
There’s an enigma around technology, isn’t there? Take the mobile phone for example. We used to use just it to make phonecalls; now phones have near-broadcast-quality video cameras on board too. If only there was a way of releasing some … Continue reading
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Media Exprimo, Japan
Back in 2003, BBC Wales organised an International Digital Storytelling Conference. Two of the many attendees travelled to Cardiff all the way from Japan to be with us: 1. Akiko Ogawa, Associate Professor at the Faculty of Studies on Contemporary … Continue reading
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