Category Archives: media literacy

DS6 digital storytelling conference review 2011

For the UK’s digital storytellers, a trip to Aberystwyth Arts Centre has been something of an annual pilgrimage for some years now. DS6 took place on Friday 16 June 2011. In keeping with previous years, here’s my review of the … Continue reading

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Intergenerational School Report

Students at Ysgol Gyfun Gymraeg Bryn Tawe, Swansea, were active in the recent BBC School Report project. Nia Davies and Beccy Leach from BBC Cymru Wales went to help the students. Here’s one of the films which is a great … Continue reading

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Video Nation – final screening

Last night was a poignant one. Even before I was involved with digital storytelling, I’ve been a fan of BBC Video Nation. I first became aware of it when I saw an job ad in the early 1990s announcing that … Continue reading

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The personal, social and environmental impacts of technology and media

I mentioned Jason Ohler’s new book ‘Digital Community, Digital Citizen‘  last year.   Jason’s just emailed me, saying:  “I thought you might be interested in my article about digital citizenship and character education, in the new issue of Educational Leadership. It … 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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Digital Storytelling Wizard of 2010

One of the things I enjoy about Twitter is that it enables people with shared interests to meet up. During 2010, I’ve met several people who are passionate about digital storytelling just because I talk about the subject on Twitter. … Continue reading

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Fun end-of-term digital storytelling activity

If you’re a teacher looking for something fun for the end of school term, this may be of interest. It’s a hand-drawn, very basic animation, storytelling form I’ve been experimenting with since 2003. The first one I made was called … Continue reading

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Digital stories in the Kwak’wala language

Only 270 people can speak Kwak’wala (source) so it’s highly endangered. Digital storytelling has a vital role in keeping a record of languages as they’re spoken today. The Mayatlan’s Wila Culture and Language Group for their Kwak’wala Digital Language Project … Continue reading

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Digital storytelling in the cloud

The ideal solution for a touring digital storytelling project, using existing, available digilabs at community centres, libraries, schools, colleges, etc. would seem to be to use web-based editing applications. This would remove the need to install individual programs or to … Continue reading

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News of three BBC media literacy projects

I’ve just been reading an info pack from BBC Learning Campaigns and these three items on the slate caught my eye: 1. My Story Fifteen of the thousands of stories submitted will be showcased as five half-hour programmes, starting 7th … Continue reading

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