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- New local TV station in Wales wants your films and digital stories
- Date of DS7 #digitalstorytelling festival announced by George Ewart Evans Centre for Storytelling
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- Using your mobile phone as a digital storytelling tool
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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Digitalst on Twitter- digitalst: #DigitalStorytelling training manuals by KQED http://t.co/8OPjk8q9
- digitalst: Thanks for updates from #localgovcampnw today @johnpopham @karenstrunks et al
- digitalst: Bristol Watershed hiring freelance #digitalstorytelling facilitator £200/day via @KentManning http://t.co/DSOKXjad
- digitalst: @KentManning indeed. I'll RT now as it will be of interest to UK digital storytellers living in the SW. Thanks for the heads-up Kent.
- digitalst: @CreativeArtsWal croeso i Twitter. Great idea, your project: Learn with Grandma. Keep us updated.
- digitalst: @XarahC love that 'champagne and catharsis' digital storytelling end-screening slide in your presentation slideshow.
Latest Comments- Comment on Developing the one-hour digital storytelling form, with a video example by Sandra AnstissThank you Gareth, this would be a great idea when taking part in a one day event when time and resources are limited. I used a similar technique in one of my workshops by asking people to bring a small item which hels some meaning to them. They were then given just 2 minutes to talk about it. The stories were later developed into longer pieces. […]
- Comment on Date of DS7 #digitalstorytelling festival announced by George Ewart Evans Centre for Storytelling by Alan ThomasFANTASTIC entering data in my diary too @alanROYGBIV […]
- Comment on Date of DS7 #digitalstorytelling festival announced by George Ewart Evans Centre for Storytelling by Sandra AnstissCardiff eh? Brilliant! Will put it in my diary. […]
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Learn how to shoot for the web and edit video archive mashups
Welsh media trainers Cyfle have two tantalising training courses which are open for registration now: 1. Archive Mashup Learn how to mix diverse archive video clips and sounds. A part-time course beginning 26 March 2012 2. Shooting for the web … 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
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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One-hour digital storytelling?
Is there a form of digital storytelling that can give people a taste of what’s possible in just one hour? That’s the question Nicky Getgood and I wrestled with when we met earlier today. Nicky works with Talk About Local … Continue reading
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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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From Truprint to Facebook
Up until the 1990s, passing round a Truprint envelope full of 6″ x 4″ photographic prints was the norm; nowadays we publish our own online and ‘Like’ our friends’ photos on Facebook. Increasingly, that’s how we pass round our snapshots. … Continue reading
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The best digital storytelling opportunity ever?
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 … Continue reading
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RTS Innovation Awards 2009
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 … Continue reading
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Pink fingertip syndrome
This is a new term I just had to invent. We launched a new Welsh-language mobile website yesterday (info). It was fast as anything when I browsed it alone, yet when I needed to show it to Siwan from the … Continue reading
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Storywalks
Hyperaction launches Storywalks tomorrow morning with a walk and picnic in Torfaen, south Wales. On their website you can download a printable PDF routemap (here’s an example) and free mp3 podcasts of the stories to listen to along your way. … Continue reading
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