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- Call for Speakers: DS7 #digitalstorytelling festival in Wales
- 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
- Learn how to shoot for the web and edit video archive mashups
- 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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Digital Storytelling Pod Ep01-How to make a DS on iPad with Barrie Stephenson
This is the first episode of a new monthly audio podcast for digital storytellers: Digital Storytelling Pod with Gareth Morlais. dspod-ep01.mp3 Barrie Stevenson of Digistories sums up his experiences of using iPad v2 to help people make digital stories. This … Continue reading
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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Rami Malkawi needs people to make a digital story with his new prototype
Rami Malkawi is a Jordanian University of Glamorgan PhD researcher and he needs our help to try out his new wizard-based digital storytelling prototype for learning. The tool works on most computers that can have Adobe Air and Flash installed … Continue reading
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Digital Storytellers from Italy and Jordan in Wales
I shared my journey to the DS6 festival of digital storytelling, with Simona Bonini Baldini and Rami Malkawi. I’ll never forget the excitement in the car as we rounded the corner of Aberystwyth’s side streets and caught our first full-on … 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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Hacio’r Iaith – hacking the Welsh language
I spent Saturday in Aberystwyth at Hacio’r Iaith – the second annual Welsh-language code camp. Highlights included: A fantastic one-hour crash crowd-sourced creative session aimed at translating newly-out-of-copyright Welsh poet Gwilym Deudraeth’s work into multimedia, digital stories and more. This … 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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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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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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