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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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Telling Truths, Changing Minds – digital storytelling evening
As a round-up of digital storytelling activities in south Wales, it’s hard to beat this event TELLING TRUTHS, CHANGING MINDS in Cardiff, Wales, on Thursday, 29 November 2012. It’s been organised by the CommsCymru network for communications professionals in Wales … Continue reading
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Digital storytelling admin
I’ve just been speaking on Facebook with south Wales digital storytelling and community video practitioner Sandra Anstiss. She’s venturing into the private sector making stories with owners, marketing staff,customers etc. and she was asking members of the Facebook DS Working … Continue reading
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Displaying digital stories
If you’re looking for ways of displaying your project’s digital stories, here are two examples to consider. I’m working for the BBC at Eisteddfod Genedlaethol Cymru in Wrexham this week and in the BBC Cymru Wales ‘cube’ tent on the … Continue reading
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Culture Shock! museums and galleries digital storytelling conference 29 Sept 2011
It’s always a treat to hear about a brand new digital storytelling conference. And here’s some news of a new one one this autumn in the north-east of England. Culture Shock! is one of the biggest digital storytelling projects in … 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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Digital storytelling on the high street
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 … Continue reading
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The Cardiff Story digital stories
I went to the screening last night at the Atrium in Cardiff of 13 new digital stories, made to be exhibited at The Cardiff Story – a museum about the city which opens in autumn 2010. The stories were broadly … Continue reading
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Home movies meet digital stories
Do you know of examples of media forms that mix home movies with digital storytelling to add a personal-viewpoint narration to a home movie? If you do, please can you add a link to the comments below? (Don’t worry about … Continue reading
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DS5 digital storytelling conference cribsheet 2010
This is my look back at DS5. It’s something I did after previous conferences DS4 (2009), DS3 (2008) and DS2 (2007) too. Unfortunately, the record of DS1 is no longer online. At this year’s DS5, Diego Vidart – Historias Digitales … Continue reading
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Telling your story in a taxi cab
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 … Continue reading
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