• digital storytelling,  Wales

    What a successful festival

    June 22, 2007

    I’ve been at the DS2 Digital Storytelling festival in Aberystwyth for the past three days and it’s been great! On Tuesday and Wednesday, my colleagues Huw Davies, Lisa Heledd and Carwyn Evans ran a Mobile Phone Storytelling workshop. I went to the final screening and the stories were very good. These three people, along with Gilly Adams and Daniel Meadows, are probably the most skilled practitioners of digital storytelling in the whole world. Director of the Aberystwyth Arts Centre hosted a delicious and healthy pre-festival meal on Wednesday … then we enjoyed a cabaret show by www.19-27.co.uk where a clever alignment of actors against a fantastic animated projection take you…

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  • digital storytelling,  technology

    How to delete Mac clutter files from pendrive

    June 8, 2007

    Ever saved something from a Mac to a pendrive, then put that same pendrive into a PC? Notice all those annoying ‘hidden’ Mac system files cluttering up the drive? If you right-click on the drive in Windows Explorer and search for the following: FINDER.DAT,___Move&Rename,DESKTO~1,OPENFO~1,TheVolumeSettingsFolder,Desktop*,.Trashes,.DS_Store Check, then delete them. Bingo! By the way, I think you get a similar load of clutter files on a Mac when you slot in a pendrive from a PC too.

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  • digital storytelling,  instruction,  links

    Jason Ohler

    May 10, 2007

    Dr. Jason Ohler, University of Alaska (www.jasonohler.com) wrote to me today to let me know about his… “…new web journal, subTechst (like subtext, just more digitally inclined); it’s low impact (a few short postings a month), and is about technology and learning, with an emphasis on my work in new media and digital storytelling. Right now it is featuring, among other things, excerpts from my new book, Digital Storytelling in the Classroom: New Media Pathways to Literacy, Learning and Creativity.” I’ve asked Jason to sign me up. You can do this yourself by visiting http://subtechst.blogspot.com/. I’ve been an avid reader of Jason’s work in the area of storytelling in education…

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  • digital storytelling,  Wales

    Second annual digital storytelling festival DS2

    May 10, 2007

    As well as being one of the BBC Wales digital storytelling team, I’m a member of a national umbrella organisation for digital storytellers in Wales: DS Cymru.DS Cymru and Aberystwyth Arts Centre are organising our second annual festival, DS2, in Aberystwyth, mid Wales, on 21 June 2007 Speakers include: Daniel Meadows – http://www.photobus.co.uk Shawn Micallef – http://murmurtoronto.ca/ John Freyer – http://www.allmylifeforsale.com There are all kinds of breakout sessions, masterclasses, screenings, a cabaret and BBC Wales is holding an innovative mobile phone storytelling project in the two days running up to the festival.Visit the DS2 webpage for details of how to attend.

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  • digital storytelling

    Diadem

    March 8, 2007

    A tribute to my late grandfather, John Emrys Williams of Glan Conwy, Wales, who served on board HMS Diadem during World War II. This is a Digital Story I made at a BBC training the trainers workshop led by Daniel Meadows in April 2002. Click to play

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  • digital storytelling,  mobile,  technology,  timeless

    Handheld TV production

    February 20, 2007

    Done it! I’ve managed to use the Nokia N93 to capture, record and publish video which is good enough for broadcast on TV as well as the web. OK, what I’ve made is only ten seconds long, to work around ShoZu’s 4MB upload limit, but it worked. Here’s the clip on YouTube and here it is on Blink.tv. (These two links should launch in a new browser window.) (GM 2017: Blink TV changed its terms of service, so this has now been removed from that platform.) The only kind of editing I’ve managed on the Nokia so far is to mark new In and Out points on video clips and…

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